The EAT Program™
Grounded in Research
The Emotions Awareness & Transformation™ program is grounded in well-established research. It offers a simple process and concepts you can work with, whether in depth or on the fly, to put your best foot forward. Interested in doing a deeper dive? Emotion Commotion includes a list of authors and books referenced.
Easy to Follow
The EAT Program™ is straightforward and easy to follow. It can help you get a handle on your own emotions, and feel more at ease if you are helping kids. You will gain the language and fundamentals you need to make it through most daily challenges.
Helps You Set the Tone
The EAT Program™ can help you set a positive tone. You can’t change others, but by becoming less reactive yourself, they may change in response. Are you stuck in a toxic environment, where nobody else changes? You will learn to set healthy boundaries, and transform your own negative emotions.
The EAT Program™ includes:
I Know Me
- 7 rhyming stories for all ages
- Learn the basics through rhyme:
- get grounded
- feel connected
- create safe space
- clear negative emotions
- make healthy intuitive decisions
- Limited text per page
- 59 images in digital version
Emotion Commotion
- The full program guide
- 6″ x 9″
- 9 chapters
- 114 pages
- 79 full-colour images
- High quality paper
Emotions Awareness & Transformation™
- Key research summaries
- 36 worksheets
- Exercises based on stanzas from I Know Me
- Tips for each example
- 8.5″ x 11″
- 206 pages
- 34 greyscale images
7 rhyming stories for all ages
The seven stories in I Know Me lead you on a journey, from conflict and stress-filled metaphors that keep you emotionally reactive; through safe space, grounding, and connection metaphors (bright light bubble; roots out your boots; one with the sun); on to self-reflection metaphors; and ending with metaphors teaching you how to trust your intuition.
Get on track in 3 simple steps
Emotion Commotion is the guide you need to move from the caboose to the engine. We’ll keep the train metaphor to explain the process:
You are so angry you can feel the steam blowing out of your ears. You want to scream as loud as a train whistle. You thought your life was on track, but the track ahead is broken.
- Emotions are reactions in your body. They don’t cause the reaction; they are the reaction.
- You naturally describe your emotions with metaphor.
- When you transform the metaphor, you simultaneously transform the negative emotions.
- With negative emotions transformed, even if just for a moment, you are in the best position to make your healthiest decision.
Based on the train metaphor:
- Locate the emotion in your body: ears, mouth, and full body tension.
- Describe it in as much detail as you can or wish: steam blowing; train whistle; broken track.
- Transform the negative image into something more positive: Imagine a race team’s pitstop crew quickly repairing the track before the train gets there.
Your body relaxes as you realize there is plenty of track left to come up with a plan.
The EAT Program™ Training Workbook
The EAT™ Workbook takes you to the next level, providing the exercises you need to bring yourself into balance. It begins with summary pages of the critical points from Emotion Commotion; 34 straightforward exercises then quickly get you naming and transforming your negative emotions. The end result is balanced decision-making.
This workbook uses stanzas from the stories in I Know Me as a starting place for exploring and transforming stresses and conflicts. As a reference tool, it offers you language and insights for better understanding and guiding children and teens.
About Karen
I am an intuitive healer and channel with a Master’s Degree in Dispute Resolution, where my thesis focused on testing self-healing with LDT™ – Locate, Describe & Transform™. My background includes developing and delivering training programs on communication skills, diversity and equity, and human rights.