Food Psychology for Mind and Body Certification
Why you should study with us
Food Psychology for Mind and Body
This course is designed to help you better understand your relationship to food and eating, mind and body. The course offers a mixture of theory around the psychology of eating, nutritional principles and practical tips on how to establish and sustain a healthy mindset around food and your body. It is not a diet or a meal plan.
It will guide you through a deeper understanding of your identity as an eater, as well as outline how to harness this insight, in order to create a compassionate, intuitive, healthy and freeing relationship with food, which will support your holistic wellbeing and sense of self.
Please note that the course is intended for educational purposes only: it is not a form of therapy. If you feel that you need therapeutic support for disordered eating, the course provides guidance on where to seek it.
You will Learn:
- An introduction to food psychology: the factors that underlie the what, how, why and when of our eating behaviours
- How to recognize your own food behaviors and mindset around eating through self-awareness
- How to make holistically healthier choices, based on intuitive, embodied insight into what wholesomely feeds and fuels your life
- How to cultivate a mindset of self-love around food and your body
- How diet culture has been unhealthily normalised in our society, and how we can healthily reject its influence on our eating psychology
- How intuitive eating as a practice can help you navigate a new, healthy and balanced relationship to food, as well as to life
- How your relationship to food and body is a mirror to your relationship with life
- How to get help if you feel you are struggling with disordered eating
Benefits of Taking This Course:
- Gain greater understanding of how you think, feel and behave around food
- Learn how to make your relationship with food more conscious and more aligned with healthy principles
- Foster an intuitive relationship with food and your body — one that is driven by what feels balanced, nourishing and satisfying at an embodied level
- Gain autonomy from diet culture and diet mentality
- Gain insight into where your relationship with food and your body reflects other possible areas of growth in your life, and step into those with newfound confidence
This course includes
24/7 Student Support
End of course certification
Lifetime access to your course
Compatible with modern devices
- What is eating psychology?
- How our eating and food behaviors do not happen in isolation from other events in our lives
- How emotion, cognition and social conditioning affect our relationship to food and our bodies
- How to cultivate a growth mindset around understanding your own food and eating psychology, in the interests of health and holistic wellbeing, at a level that is deeper than following a meal plan or a diet.
- The five main types of eaters and which one (or ones) you identify with
- Tools with which to uncover, explore and understand your unconscious relationship with food and your body, depending on your type and the presence of some limiting beliefs that may have been holding you stuck within a negative cycle
- Tools and techniques to guide you towards a more holistically healthy relationship with food and your body
- How to reach out for additional help and support, if you feel you need it
- How diet culture — and the belief system that we may have unconsciously inherited from it — is unhealthy and can damage our relationship to food and our body
- Why diets don’t work, and how living in a cycle of physical and psychological deprivation doesn’t help us move closer towards our goals, dreams or ambitions
- How to reframe diet culture beliefs for yourself and consciously redesign your relationship with food and your body
- Practical foundations for building a healthy relationship with food from a nutritional perspective: reliable, straightforward principles of healthy eating that you can trust and rely on
- What intuitive eating is: a way of eating and being that can free you from a dysfunctional relationship with food and your body, through mindful connection, self-love and intuitively responding to the body’s natural signals
- What the intuitive eater type looks like, embodied in a day-to-day way, and how to cultivate and maintain the habits that support intuitive eating for yourself
- Tips and exercises to help you tune into your body, alongside healthy new beliefs to cultivate, to replace those that we may have unconsciously internalised from diet culture
- The importance of listening to your own body and signals
- How to consolidate the understanding that our relationship with food and our bodies serves as a mirror to our relationship with life and, therefore, that healing aspects of our food psychology can also lead to healing in other areas of our lives
- How to explore the kind of self-growth that opens up for both mind and body, as a result of working on improving our food psychology
- How to maintain intuitive eating and self-awareness habits, as well as optional prompts for further growth and reflection
ID: YDFT67YHJ
of achievement
This certificate is presented to
Your Name
For completing the
Food Psychology for Mind and Body Certification
on 21st November 2026
Selena Hurford
Selena Hurford
Course Tutor
Daniel Morgan
Daniel Morgan
Head of Academy
Anyone who has an interest in learning more about this subject matter is encouraged to take the course. There are no entry requirements to take the course.
The course is broken down into 5 individual modules. Each module takes between 20 and 90 minutes on average to study. Although you are free to spend as much or as little time as you feel necessary on each module, simply log in and out of the course at your convenience.
You can study the course any time you like. Simply log in and out of the web based course as often as you require. The course is compatible with all computers, tablet devices and smart phones so you can even study while on the move!
Once you have completed all 5 modules there is a multiple choice test. The questions will be on a range of topics found within the 5 modules. The test, like the course, is online and can be taken a time and location of your choosing.
The pass mark for the test is 70%.
If you don’t pass the test first time you will get further opportunities to take the test again after extra study. There are no limits to the number of times you can take the test. All test retakes are included within the price of the course.
You can either use your Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Solo cards or PayPal account to pay for the online course. Our site uses the latest SSL encryption to ensure your safety. All payments are handled securely by PayPal.
You can begin the course immediately after your payment has been received. You will create your login details during the checkout process. We will also send you an email confirming your login details.
We estimate that the course will take about 4 hours to complete in total, plus an additional 30 minutes for the end of course test.
Once you have been awarded your certificate it is valid for life. The certificate does not expire or need renewing.
An excellent course with up to date thinking based on good research about canine behaviours. I particularly liked the style of teaching. Suitable for all levels and had just the right touch.
I found it stimulating, encouraging and above all, not patronising. It will be very helpful to me on my road as an animal Reiki therapist working with a wide variety of breeds in a rescue centre. I am now much more aware of calming signals and subtle signals that the dog is ready to accept contact.
I would recommend it to anyone wanting to enhance their understanding and communication with dogs.
Lucy Lofting
I am so far really enjoying the course. Information is really well presented and tests a great recap to information covered. I also think the Notes tool is a good addition, however, the saving seems a little unstable so I have lost notes on a couple of the modules.
I figured that I needed to save prior to taking the test, but had selected a picture and as there was no close option, I clicked back and lost the notes I had taken. Apart from that, I am really enjoying the format and am finding the information easy to retain.
Amanda Rolfe
This course was very informative and i loved that it could be done at my own pace and not have deadlines to reach.
Even my dog loved the benefits and being my practice dummy!
Nicky Corbett
This course was super fun and so easy to follow.
I loved the convenience of learning everywhere, I could use my phone or tablet and do the course in the car, breaks while at work or in the privacy of my living room. The videos were wonderful and the worksheets helped so much as well... I'm more confident in myself now :)
Tara Ireland
I honestly cannot recommend this course highly enough for anyone thinking of pursuing a career in Wedding Planning. The course was very obviously written by industry professionals. Course content was easy to understand, yet thorough and in depth. I also love that this course covered such a diverse range of topics including weddings from different cultures and religions, not just the standard white-dress chapel wedding. I really feel as though this course has given me a bounding head start in the wedding planning industry and I can't wait to get in there and start my own business. Highly recommend - worth every penny :)
Amy Stonehouse
A fantastic start for a new SENCo or a nice refresher for one who has been around for a while, worth every penny and has helped immensely!
Leanne McMahon
Food Psychology for Mind and Body
This course is designed to help you better understand your relationship to food and eating, mind and body. The course offers a mixture of theory around the psychology of eating, nutritional principles and practical tips on how to establish and sustain a healthy mindset around food and your body. It is not a diet or a meal plan.
It will guide you through a deeper understanding of your identity as an eater, as well as outline how to harness this insight, in order to create a compassionate, intuitive, healthy and freeing relationship with food, which will support your holistic wellbeing and sense of self.
Please note that the course is intended for educational purposes only: it is not a form of therapy. If you feel that you need therapeutic support for disordered eating, the course provides guidance on where to seek it.
You will Learn:
- An introduction to food psychology: the factors that underlie the what, how, why and when of our eating behaviours
- How to recognize your own food behaviors and mindset around eating through self-awareness
- How to make holistically healthier choices, based on intuitive, embodied insight into what wholesomely feeds and fuels your life
- How to cultivate a mindset of self-love around food and your body
- How diet culture has been unhealthily normalised in our society, and how we can healthily reject its influence on our eating psychology
- How intuitive eating as a practice can help you navigate a new, healthy and balanced relationship to food, as well as to life
- How your relationship to food and body is a mirror to your relationship with life
- How to get help if you feel you are struggling with disordered eating
Benefits of Taking This Course:
- Gain greater understanding of how you think, feel and behave around food
- Learn how to make your relationship with food more conscious and more aligned with healthy principles
- Foster an intuitive relationship with food and your body — one that is driven by what feels balanced, nourishing and satisfying at an embodied level
- Gain autonomy from diet culture and diet mentality
- Gain insight into where your relationship with food and your body reflects other possible areas of growth in your life, and step into those with newfound confidence
This course includes
24/7 Student Support
End of course certification
Lifetime access to your course
Compatible with modern devices
- What is eating psychology?
- How our eating and food behaviors do not happen in isolation from other events in our lives
- How emotion, cognition and social conditioning affect our relationship to food and our bodies
- How to cultivate a growth mindset around understanding your own food and eating psychology, in the interests of health and holistic wellbeing, at a level that is deeper than following a meal plan or a diet.
- The five main types of eaters and which one (or ones) you identify with
- Tools with which to uncover, explore and understand your unconscious relationship with food and your body, depending on your type and the presence of some limiting beliefs that may have been holding you stuck within a negative cycle
- Tools and techniques to guide you towards a more holistically healthy relationship with food and your body
- How to reach out for additional help and support, if you feel you need it
- How diet culture — and the belief system that we may have unconsciously inherited from it — is unhealthy and can damage our relationship to food and our body
- Why diets don’t work, and how living in a cycle of physical and psychological deprivation doesn’t help us move closer towards our goals, dreams or ambitions
- How to reframe diet culture beliefs for yourself and consciously redesign your relationship with food and your body
- Practical foundations for building a healthy relationship with food from a nutritional perspective: reliable, straightforward principles of healthy eating that you can trust and rely on
- What intuitive eating is: a way of eating and being that can free you from a dysfunctional relationship with food and your body, through mindful connection, self-love and intuitively responding to the body’s natural signals
- What the intuitive eater type looks like, embodied in a day-to-day way, and how to cultivate and maintain the habits that support intuitive eating for yourself
- Tips and exercises to help you tune into your body, alongside healthy new beliefs to cultivate, to replace those that we may have unconsciously internalised from diet culture
- The importance of listening to your own body and signals
- How to consolidate the understanding that our relationship with food and our bodies serves as a mirror to our relationship with life and, therefore, that healing aspects of our food psychology can also lead to healing in other areas of our lives
- How to explore the kind of self-growth that opens up for both mind and body, as a result of working on improving our food psychology
- How to maintain intuitive eating and self-awareness habits, as well as optional prompts for further growth and reflection
ID: YDFT67YHJ
of achievement
This certificate is presented to
Your Name
For completing the
Food Psychology for Mind and Body Certification
on 21st November 2026
Selena Hurford
Selena Hurford
Course Tutor
Daniel Morgan
Daniel Morgan
Head of Academy
Anyone who has an interest in learning more about this subject matter is encouraged to take the course. There are no entry requirements to take the course.
The course is broken down into 5 individual modules. Each module takes between 20 and 90 minutes on average to study. Although you are free to spend as much or as little time as you feel necessary on each module, simply log in and out of the course at your convenience.
You can study the course any time you like. Simply log in and out of the web based course as often as you require. The course is compatible with all computers, tablet devices and smart phones so you can even study while on the move!
Once you have completed all 5 modules there is a multiple choice test. The questions will be on a range of topics found within the 5 modules. The test, like the course, is online and can be taken a time and location of your choosing.
The pass mark for the test is 70%.
If you don’t pass the test first time you will get further opportunities to take the test again after extra study. There are no limits to the number of times you can take the test. All test retakes are included within the price of the course.
You can either use your Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Solo cards or PayPal account to pay for the online course. Our site uses the latest SSL encryption to ensure your safety. All payments are handled securely by PayPal.
You can begin the course immediately after your payment has been received. You will create your login details during the checkout process. We will also send you an email confirming your login details.
We estimate that the course will take about 4 hours to complete in total, plus an additional 30 minutes for the end of course test.
Once you have been awarded your certificate it is valid for life. The certificate does not expire or need renewing.
An excellent course with up to date thinking based on good research about canine behaviours. I particularly liked the style of teaching. Suitable for all levels and had just the right touch.
I found it stimulating, encouraging and above all, not patronising. It will be very helpful to me on my road as an animal Reiki therapist working with a wide variety of breeds in a rescue centre. I am now much more aware of calming signals and subtle signals that the dog is ready to accept contact.
I would recommend it to anyone wanting to enhance their understanding and communication with dogs.
Lucy Lofting
I am so far really enjoying the course. Information is really well presented and tests a great recap to information covered. I also think the Notes tool is a good addition, however, the saving seems a little unstable so I have lost notes on a couple of the modules.
I figured that I needed to save prior to taking the test, but had selected a picture and as there was no close option, I clicked back and lost the notes I had taken. Apart from that, I am really enjoying the format and am finding the information easy to retain.
Amanda Rolfe
This course was very informative and i loved that it could be done at my own pace and not have deadlines to reach.
Even my dog loved the benefits and being my practice dummy!
Nicky Corbett
This course was super fun and so easy to follow.
I loved the convenience of learning everywhere, I could use my phone or tablet and do the course in the car, breaks while at work or in the privacy of my living room. The videos were wonderful and the worksheets helped so much as well... I'm more confident in myself now :)
Tara Ireland
I honestly cannot recommend this course highly enough for anyone thinking of pursuing a career in Wedding Planning. The course was very obviously written by industry professionals. Course content was easy to understand, yet thorough and in depth. I also love that this course covered such a diverse range of topics including weddings from different cultures and religions, not just the standard white-dress chapel wedding. I really feel as though this course has given me a bounding head start in the wedding planning industry and I can't wait to get in there and start my own business. Highly recommend - worth every penny :)
Amy Stonehouse
A fantastic start for a new SENCo or a nice refresher for one who has been around for a while, worth every penny and has helped immensely!
Leanne McMahon
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