Food Psychology for Mind and Body Certification

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

PLUS - Access to the exclusive New Skills Academy Study Group!
  • 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
certificate

of achievement

This certificate is presented to

Your Name

NSA

For completing the

Food Psychology for Mind and Body Certification

on 21st November 2026

Selena Hurford

Selena Hurford

Course Tutor

cpd

Daniel Morgan

Daniel Morgan

Head of Academy

Certificate Example

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.

I am over the moon with my experience in completing my first online course with New Skills Academy. I found the whole process quick and efficient and the site very easy to navigate. I found it helpful to complete short tests at the end of each module as I feel this help to review the information I have read and confirm that I understood it and could retain the information as well. I found the course to be very well written and the information provided to be interesting and relevant to the course and the final test to be efficient in recapping everything I had learnt throughout the course. I completely the course quite quickly as was able to study using my iPhone as the course was iOS compatible which I found to be the best way of accessing the course, information and tests. I'm thrilled that I passed my first course and can't wait to get started on the next one. Thank you for such a positive and rewarding experience.

Lisa Simmons

This course was very easy to follow. Any assistance needed was quickly and professionally sorted.
The modules were great. I am a complete novice in this area of studying but was able to follow each module at my own pace and review.
Thoroughly recommend this to any seeking employment in this area. You get a recognised certificate at the end!
What is also useful is you can revisit modules and refer back to even after the course.
There is an exam at the end which was quite hard but it ensures you have read each module carefully ,so you fully understand.
This course is a must for anyone wanting to undertake Admin or PA work.
I passed and can now apply for this type of work with confidence!!
In one word 'Fantastic!'

Samantha Smith

A great course to reinforce the knowledge I have gained through on-the-job experience. Now I have the confidence in my experience to apply for better jobs to utilise my newly learned skills. Being able to complete the course at my own speed and when convenient was great and suited my situation. Also being able to review the modules as I was progressing really helped it sink in thoroughly. I would strongly recommend this course to anyone who has an interest in HR, any section of the arena, either to learn, to brush up on existing knowledge or like me, to be able to prove that I know the basics of the HR function.

Jo Kesbey

Great support from tutors and IT staff! Emails are always answered quickly, even on late nights and early mornings. Good clear lay out across the website, very easy to navigate and keep track of modules completed.

Would highly recommend to anyone looking to gain more knowledge in their own time and develop in the area. I completed this course on my commute to and from work. I also received a student card with this course that was great to benefit discounts from.

I am already thinking about what other courses I can start with New Skills Academy as soon as possible!

Sarah Howden

This course is brilliant! Extremely easy to follow and understand. You are able to do it in your own time so there's no pressure.

I've now just completed it and enjoyed the whole experience. I can't wait to get my little business up and running. Thank you all

Louisa Forsyth

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

Duration:
4 hours

Access:
Lifetime Access

Approved by:
CPD

Learning Type:


Text based modules  Images  Video learning 

Cost:
$120.00

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

PLUS - Access to the exclusive New Skills Academy Study Group!
  • 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
certificate

of achievement

This certificate is presented to

Your Name

NSA

For completing the

Food Psychology for Mind and Body Certification

on 21st November 2026

Selena Hurford

Selena Hurford

Course Tutor

cpd

Daniel Morgan

Daniel Morgan

Head of Academy

Certificate Example

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.

I am over the moon with my experience in completing my first online course with New Skills Academy. I found the whole process quick and efficient and the site very easy to navigate. I found it helpful to complete short tests at the end of each module as I feel this help to review the information I have read and confirm that I understood it and could retain the information as well. I found the course to be very well written and the information provided to be interesting and relevant to the course and the final test to be efficient in recapping everything I had learnt throughout the course. I completely the course quite quickly as was able to study using my iPhone as the course was iOS compatible which I found to be the best way of accessing the course, information and tests. I'm thrilled that I passed my first course and can't wait to get started on the next one. Thank you for such a positive and rewarding experience.

Lisa Simmons

This course was very easy to follow. Any assistance needed was quickly and professionally sorted.
The modules were great. I am a complete novice in this area of studying but was able to follow each module at my own pace and review.
Thoroughly recommend this to any seeking employment in this area. You get a recognised certificate at the end!
What is also useful is you can revisit modules and refer back to even after the course.
There is an exam at the end which was quite hard but it ensures you have read each module carefully ,so you fully understand.
This course is a must for anyone wanting to undertake Admin or PA work.
I passed and can now apply for this type of work with confidence!!
In one word 'Fantastic!'

Samantha Smith

A great course to reinforce the knowledge I have gained through on-the-job experience. Now I have the confidence in my experience to apply for better jobs to utilise my newly learned skills. Being able to complete the course at my own speed and when convenient was great and suited my situation. Also being able to review the modules as I was progressing really helped it sink in thoroughly. I would strongly recommend this course to anyone who has an interest in HR, any section of the arena, either to learn, to brush up on existing knowledge or like me, to be able to prove that I know the basics of the HR function.

Jo Kesbey

Great support from tutors and IT staff! Emails are always answered quickly, even on late nights and early mornings. Good clear lay out across the website, very easy to navigate and keep track of modules completed.

Would highly recommend to anyone looking to gain more knowledge in their own time and develop in the area. I completed this course on my commute to and from work. I also received a student card with this course that was great to benefit discounts from.

I am already thinking about what other courses I can start with New Skills Academy as soon as possible!

Sarah Howden

This course is brilliant! Extremely easy to follow and understand. You are able to do it in your own time so there's no pressure.

I've now just completed it and enjoyed the whole experience. I can't wait to get my little business up and running. Thank you all

Louisa Forsyth

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

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