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The Hamilton Family Health Team offers several disordered/emotional eating groups and webinars to help you better manage your health.
Mindful Eating: Emotional Eating and Food Craving Management Group
How to Support your Child or Youth with an Eating Disorder: Caregiver Group
Disordered/Emotional Eating Groups
Mindful Eating: Emotional Eating and Food Craving Management Group
Do you eat when you’re not hungry? Do you struggle with powerful food cravings? Do you eat to cope with your emotions? (Feeling sad, stressed, lonely, bored.) Are you frustrated by diets that just don’t work?
This group is open to patients of the Hamilton Family Health Team. A referral is required.
Talk with your health care provider to ask for a referral to this group.
Online, once a week, for 6 weeks.
In this group, you will learn:
- About the benefits of mindfulness and how to practice mindful eating
- How to become more in tune with your body and learn to respond to your natural hunger cues
- Skills to manage food cravings
Learn more on our Food and Mood page.
How to Support your Child or Youth with an Eating Disorder: Caregiver Group
This group is open to patients of the Hamilton Family Health Team. A referral is required.
Online, once a week, for 4 weeks.
Caregivers will learn about the impact of their child’s eating disorder, how to become the “food decision maker” for their child and tips to deal with their child’s emotions. The group follows a Family Based Treatment model.
Caregivers are invited to attend if they are concerned about their child’s disordered eating, and eating disorder, or while they are on the waitlist for specialty eating disorder services.
Binge Eating Disorder Group
This group is on hold and under development.
Disordered/Emotional Eating Webinars
We also have several free webinars you can watch.
Food and Mood: Diet and Depression 1
In this workshop, our Registered Dietitians will discuss the importance of healthy eating for your physical and mental health and the research that shows that a better diet is linked to better mental health. You will learn about key nutrients that are essential for a healthy brain, the benefits of a Mediterranean style of eating on prevention and managing depression, and more.
Food and Mood: Diet and Depression 2
New research is showing what we eat is just as important for our mental health as it is for our physical health. A healthy diets offer protection while unhealthy diets are associated with higher risk of depression and anxiety. Join our Registered Dietitians for a virtual session to look closer at some of the key foods and nutrients that can prevent and even help manage depression. Find out about nutritional neuroplasticity and how the food we eat can change our brains, how they function and therefore how we feel!
Alimentação e Saúde Mental: Um Caminho Para o Bem-Estar
Você está recebendo nutrientes para nutrir seu corpo e seu cérebro? Junte-se a nós para uma sessão online dia 15 de Junho 11-12am EDT para aprender com nossa Nutricionista e Consultora de Saúde Mental sobre a importância de alimentos saudáveis para sua saúde física e mental. Aprenda como a combinação adequada de carboidrato, proteína, gordura, vitaminas e minerais pode prevenir depressão e otimizar sua saúde cerebral.
Self Care Through Food: Strategies To Reduce Stress And Emotional Eating
Many of us are using food for comfort during COVID-19. In this workshop, our Registered Dietitians will teach you strategies (such as mindful eating) to manage overeating.