Unburdened Eating: Spring Intensive
Unburdened Eating
IFS Intensive for Healing Your Relationship with Food and Your Body
April 9th - May 15th | Virtual
Discover the Unburdened Eating Intensive, Dr. Jeanne Catanzaro’s new live, small-group program that introduces a powerful Internal Family Systems (IFS) approach to transforming your relationship with food and your body.
If you find yourself caught in cycles of self-criticism, feeling “too much” or “not enough”, or trying to fix your body through plans that don’t bring change or lasting relief, this work offers a different path.
Through guided reflections, small-group exercises, and live demonstrations, you’ll get to know and start to heal the parts of yourself that criticize, control, or disconnect—and to begin building a more compassionate, trusting relationship with yourself and your body.
Registration Closed
This program has reached capacity. We do expect to have cancellations and have created an Interest List if you’d like to be notified if a spot opens.
Additional Dates: As soon as we firm up any future Unburdened Eating programs, we will post them to the events page and send out email notifications as well.
Tuition:
Program Tuition: $799
Includes:
Six live virtual group sessions with Dr. Jeanne Catanzaro and up to 20 IFS Credits / 20 Professional CEs available.
Scholarships
With an overwhelming amount of scholarship applications, we have decided to close submissions. Thank you everyone for your interest!
Decisions: All applicants will be notified by Friday, March 13th.
Agenda:
Session 1 – IFS, Food, and the Body: Understanding Cultural “Shoulds”
April 9 | 9:00 – 1:30 CST
Session 2 – Appreciating Protectors in Context
April 10 | 9:00 – 1:30 CST
Session 3 – Negotiating Inner Alliances and Polarizations
April 24 | 10:00 – 1:00 CST
Session 4 – Identifying Components of a Self-Led Eating and Well-Being Practice
May 1 | 10:00 – 1:00 CST
Session 5 – Inner Mediation and Trust Building: Troubleshooting Challenges to Self-Leadership
May 8 | 10:00 – 1:00 CST
Session 6 – Next Steps: Sustaining Self-Leadership in a Culturally Burdened Context
May 15 | 10:00 – 1:00 CST
The Heart of the Work
Our relationship with food is often shaped by family messages, cultural pressures, and the parts of us that found comfort the only way they could. Over time, these patterns can show up as protective strategies such as bingeing, restricting, eating at night, or feeling shame about our bodies.
This intensive offers an IFS-informed space to explore the parts that carry these burdens. In a small, intimate group, we slow down, listen, and work with compassion rather than urgency. Protectors and fears are welcomed, not pushed aside.
Your Learning Journey
Across six live sessions, participants will be supported to:
- Identify extreme beliefs you’ve been carrying about yourself and your body
- Get to know the protective parts that focus on or disconnect from food or your body
- Reconnect with your inner wisdom so choices around food and body can arise from curiosity and compassion rather than control.
Target Audience
This intensive is designed for participants with a foundational understanding of IFS who are seeking a deeper exploration of food-related and body-related parts, as well as IFS practitioners wishing to enhance their experiential learning in this area. This program is inclusive of all backgrounds, including non-therapists and those newer to the IFS model. However, this is not an introductory program, and a basic understanding of IFS is strongly recommended.
