Here at Growing Humankindness we offer home study courses that you can take at any time. These courses offer rich support to help you create a less worried and dysregulated relationship with food and a more compassionate and less worried relationship with yourself.
The home study bundle
We offer payment options that work with a variety of budgets, but the best is our home study bundle. With this bundle, you get access to our four most popular courses for one payment of $400 USD or two monthly payments of $200.
This is a savings of up to $400 (if you buy the courses separately they’re $850 USD.) Learn more about the courses that are included below.
Our home study courses
Align: Heal the Battle with Your Inner Rebel
Align is for you if you reactively push against help and support and get stuck in feelings of resistance – “No, you can’t make me!” – when you try to make positive changes with food and other areas of your life.
In this course, you’ll learn how to soften the inner conflict between the part of you that wants to change and the part of you that pushes back. Defusing this conflict will help you follow through on the changes you want to make, set healthy limits, and express a greater sense of power and agency in your life. Align is $200 USD.
Emerge – Create a New Habit
If you overuse sugar for stress relief, to care for your emotions, or to self regulate, this course will help you change your eating habits with gentleness and insight. You’ll receive daily emotional support and learn how to apply self compassion to the process of habit change, so you can create more nourishing self talk and build resilience, that internal sense of, “I trust myself to move through this.”
This course is our most popular and has been taken by thousands from around the world since 2012. Emerge is $200 USD.
Soften a Sugar Habit with Presence, Compassion and Grief
If you use sugar to self soothe, to care for painful emotions, or to comfort yourself when you’re stressed, the holidays may be an especially difficult time for you. In this four part class, you’ll learn how to use presence, self compassion and grief to unhook from painful patterns with sugar.
Presence and compassion create the safety for change, healing and growth to occur, with sugar and beyond. And yet you may wonder – how do I cultivate these things? And how can they help me eat less sugar? In this course you’ll learn the ‘why’ and the ‘how’ so you can start to build the inner refuge that replaces the ‘holding’ of sugar.
This is a brand new class for 2023 and is suitable for all levels. It’s especially designed for people who are new to Growing Humankindness and for those who struggle with sugar cravings. It’s where we recommend you begin if you’re new to our work. This course is $200 USD.
When Food Is Your Mother
We tend to think of overeating or binge eating as a ‘bad habit.’ But relational neuroscience has helped us understand that our addictions – including food addictions – are emotional bonds – places of safety, warmth and ‘holding’ that we turn to when we’re overwhelmed by pain, alarm, or distress.
In moments of overwhelm, this emotional bond with food – and the needs that drive it – can override other needs, such as a need for health or nurturing limits. In When Food is Your Mother, you’ll learn more about this new understanding of addiction and ways you can nurture the healing process. When Food is Your Mother is $250 USD.
The year long intensive, Nurturing Your Inner Mother
In addition to our home study courses, we have a year long intensive, Nurturing Your Inner Mother, that you can begin at any time. This year long program is here to deepen the healing you began in other Growing Humankindness courses so that habits of self soothing with food, isolation, and self judgment can gently fall away.
We’ve gathered tools and practices to nurture your ‘inner mother’ into a place of warmth and welcome. Each month has a theme to help you soften shame, rest in your wholeness, and deepen your courage and compassion.
You can learn more about this year long intensive here. Nurturing the Inner Mother is two payments of $120.
How long do I have access to the courses?
Our home study courses are hosted on the Growing Humankindness Mighty Network, a beautifully cultivated, private, ad free space where you have unlimited online access. These courses do not expire.
What if I want more help?
Sometimes, you take a home study course and recognize that you need more support – that it’d be helpful to have a place to ask questions, get support, or connect with others.
If this sounds like you, you may be interested in joining The Growinghumankindness community, our support group.
The difference between a home study course and the support group is the interactivity and level of support. In the community, we have bimonthly webinars and a forum where you can ask questions, practice exercises together, and get help. You can also pair up with a Listening Partner for regular emotional support.
What if I take a course and it isn’t the right fit for me?
We want you to get the right fit! For home study courses, you may ask for and receive a full refund for any reason within the first 7 days of your purchase. If you’re on a payment plan, the 7 day window begins on the day of the first payment.
To request a refund, please email us or call us at 888-297-7076.
Questions?
We respect your time, money, energy, and dreams of healing, and we want you to get the support you need. If you have any questions, please reach out. We’re here to help, whether you choose our services or another’s.
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