Thursday Nov 05, 2026
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
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About the Book.
Are you hungry for connection?
Do you turn to food for comfort when you’re feeling lonely, anxious, or depressed? Perhaps you have a history of yo-yo dieting, or use food to deal with stress? If you struggle with emotional eating, undereating, or obsessions about nutrition, you may have an insecure attachment style that is driving your behavior. You aren’t alone. In our increasingly isolated world of technology and social media, people are turning to food or diet culture in an effort to “fill the void,” only to be left unsatisfied and unfulfilled. So, how can you nourish true connection instead?
Based in attachment theory, this essential and timely book reframes emotional and restrictive eating as a deeper struggle for safety and security. With this guide, you’ll identify and examine your own attachment style, learn how attachment wounds can impact your relationship with food, and decrease your dependence on food behaviors as a tool to self-regulate, relieve pain, and find comfort.
With this compassionate guide, you will discover tools to:
- Identify why you turn to food to numb painful feelings
- Explore the role of social media in feelings of isolation
- Cultivate healthy coping behaviors
- Feel safer and more secure in your relationships
With this groundbreaking guide, you’ll find powerful skills to heal from the loneliness, anxiety, and attachment wounds that cause disordered eating, and live with more connectedness, meaning, and true fulfillment.
About the Authors.
Vanessa Scaringi, PhD, CEDS-C, is a licensed psychologist and certified eating disorder specialist. She co-owns a group therapy practice, CALM Counseling, that specializes in women’s health issues. Vanessa maintains a blog for Psychology Today, and her writing has been featured in TIME. She lives in Central Texas.
Kathryn Garland, LCSW, CEDS-C, is a clinical social worker and certified eating disorder specialist. Kathryn co-owns a group therapy practice, CALM Counseling, in Austin, TX. She completed post-graduate training in psychoanalytic psychotherapy in New York City and has spent the last two decades practicing from an attachment-based lens as well as training other therapists in these methods. She lives in Central Texas.
About the Moderator.
ALEXIS CONASON, PSY.D., CEDS-S is a clinical psychologist and eating disorder specialist in private practice in New York City. She is the author of The Diet-Free Revolution: 10 Steps to Free Yourself from the Diet Cycle with Mindful Eating and Radical Self-Acceptance (North Atlantic Books, 2021). She is the founder of The Anti-Diet Plan, a weight-inclusive online mindful eating program available worldwide. She was previously a research associate at the New York Nutrition Obesity Research Center in affiliation with Columbia University. Her research has been published in peer-reviewed journals, she is a frequent speaker at conferences, and she has been featured widely as an expert on the topics of mindful eating, body image, and diet culture in the media.
A lifelong New Yorker, Conason lives in Manhattan with her husband and two daughters. She loves all things related to food including cooking, grocery shopping, watching food shows, and of course eating! But most rewarding is helping her clients transform their relationship with food and experience the joys of eating. She is a fierce advocate for helping people recognize and question the societal norms that encourage their feeling not good enough about themselves so they can stop fixating on shrinking their bodies and reclaim the space that they deserve in the world. You can find her on social media @theantidietplan.