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“Body as Billboard” to “Body as Home”: Making Body Image Changes Stick

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Many clinicians working with body shame know how tough it is for clients to change the narrative about their bodies. Weight stigma, diet culture, family mythology and trauma may all play a part in making lasting change a tough road. In this presentation, we will explore interventions that build a resilient foundation for body acceptance and challenging diet culture and weight stigma. We will discuss the use of trauma-informed care to keep the healing moving forward, and end with how to best help clients find their own body stories and keep their voice, even in a cultural milieu that reinforces body shame and distrust. 

Here's What You'll Learn

Identify the Damage: Diet Culture and Body Shame 

  • Teach clients to be critical consumers of health information 
  • Weight Stigma Trauma: Help clients tell their stories 
  • Body Trauma: identify how the past impacts current body narratives 

 

Build a Resilient Body Image 

  • Help clients create a unique “manual” for recognizing somatic cues 
  • Help clients separate from old body shame narratives  

 

Making Changes Stick While Diet Culture Persists 

  • Identify the barriers to change 
  • Apply strategies to help clients challenge internalized weight stigma and external messaging 
  • Build a healing community     
  • Limitations of the research and potential risks 

Everything You're Getting

  • 1 hour of video content
  • Up to 1.0 CE credits
  • Certificate of completion
  • Handouts and resources

Meet Your Experts

Amy Pershing, LMSW, ACSW, CCTP-II

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Amy Pershing, LMSW, ACSW, CCTP-II, is the Founder of Bodywise. She is the President of the Board of the Center for Eating Disorders in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and co-founder of Pershing Consulting, LLC, which offers training to clinicians treating BED and trauma worldwide. She is also the Co-Founder of the Eating Disorders Education Institute (EDEI), a national training program for eating disorder professionals.  

 

Amy is an internationally known leader in the development of treatment paradigms for BED, and one of the first clinicians to specialize in BED treatment. Based on 35 years of clinical experience, Amy has pioneered an approach to BED recovery that is strengths-based and trauma informed, uniquely designed to heal the deeper issues that drive binge behaviors. Her approach integrates a non-diet body empowerment philosophy, helping clients create lasting change with food and body image. Amy also specializes in working with neurodivergence and BED.  

 

Amy lectures and teaches internationally on the treatment of BED for professional and lay communities; she has been featured on radio, podcast, and television programs around the world, speaking about BED treatment and recovery, relapse prevention, weight stigma, and a non-diet approach for eating and movement. She is the Past Chair of the Binge Eating Disorder Association (BEDA), and winner of BEDA’s Pioneer in Clinical Advocacy award. She is the author of the book Binge Eating Disorder: The Journey to Recovery and Beyond and The Emotional Eating, Chronic Dieting, Binge Eating & Body Image Workbook, with co-authors Judith Matz and Christy Harrison. 
 

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Amy Pershing is the founding director of Bodywise and has an employment relationship with The Center for Eating Disorders. She receives royalties as a published author. Amy Pershing receives a speaking honorarium, recording, and book royalties from Psychotherapy Networker and PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Amy Pershing is a founding board member of the Eating Disorders Action Network and The Body Freedom Project. She is the membership chair for the Eating Disorders Professional League of Michigan.

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Media Type:
Digital Seminar
Product Code:
POS059680
Duration:
1 hour
Copyright:
Dec 05, 2023
Closed Captions:
Available
Format:
Audio and Video

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