Free event open to therapists, clients, friends, and family… all is welcome!
You’ve promised yourself it won’t happen again, but there you are, standing in front of the fridge at midnight or nursing a stomachache after another sugar binge, wondering why you keep doing this.
This workshop offers a new way to understand what’s really going on. Rather than trying to control or shame yourself into change, you’ll learn how binge eating can be a response to emotional pain, and how self-compassion can gently interrupt that cycle. Through simple, powerful practices grounded in both research and real-life experience, you’ll begin to relate to yourself with more understanding and less judgment.
Whether you're supporting others in healing or navigating this struggle yourself, you’ll leave with insight, a guided self-compassion practice, and a take-home tool to help you respond more kindly and effectively the next time the urge to binge arises.
Main Teaching Points:
Describe Binge Eating through a Trauma informed lense, identifying it's role as a coping strategy rather than as a personal failure.
Explain the core components and research basis for Self-Compassion. Including key research findings demonstrating it's effectiveness in reducing disordered eating behaviors and enhancing emotional resilience.
A Guided Self-Compassion Practice designed to cultivate kindness toward the body and mind, especially in moments of struggle.
A Take Home practice to help integrate Self-Compassion into daily life.
Bio: Erica Thomas is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in California. She has a Master’s Degree in Integral Counseling Psychology. She has over 15 years of experience supporting individuals and families navigating trauma, addiction, neurodivergence, and disordered eating. Erica now specializes in helping clients heal emotional and binge eating through the lens of self-compassion. Drawing from training with Dr. Kristin Neff as well as training in Mindfulness Based stress Reduction and her training in eating disorder treatment. She leads workshops for both clients and professionals, blending clinical expertise with warmth, clarity, and presence.
Erica has been featured on the Seven Sisters Podcast and is passionate about making self-compassion practical, trauma-informed, and deeply sustainable—for clients and the therapists who serve them.
To learn more about Erica, please visit https://ericathomaslmft.com.