A Free Community Learning Conversation with Deran Young & Luis Mojica

What if the path to nervous system healing isn’t only in the therapy room — but also on your plate?

Join Deran Young, LCSW, founder of Black Therapists Rock, in conversation with Luis Mojica, somatic educator and author of Food Therapy: Conscious Eating to Navigate Anxiety, Stress, and Trauma, for a powerful and practical exploration of food as a tool for nervous system repair and trauma recovery. Register to join Deran and Luis here.

In this ninety minute free webinar, we will explore how conscious eating can support anxiety, stress, and trauma healing — particularly within Black communities navigating chronic racialized stress, intergenerational trauma, and systemic inequities that impact both mental and metabolic health.

Luis integrates somatic practice, trauma education, and accessible nutrition strategies to help us understand cravings, emotional eating cycles, adrenal fatigue, and glucose imbalance — not as failures of willpower, but as intelligent survival adaptations. Together, Deran and Luis will discuss how clinicians can expand their lens to include food and biochemistry as part of holistic care, without falling into diet culture, shame, or restrictive frameworks.

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This conversation is especially relevant for Black therapists and mental health workers who:

• Support clients living with chronic stress and embodied trauma
• Want practical, non-diet-based tools for nervous system support
• Are curious about the intersection of racial trauma, food access, and physiological regulation
• Seek sustainable ways to support their own bodies while doing emotionally demanding work

Expect a grounded, culturally aware, and compassionate dialogue about using food as medicine — not as control — and how conscious eating can become a daily act of nervous system repair and collective healing.

Register here to learn more about how food-induced stress and nutrition impacts the nervous system.

Learning Objectives

By the end of this webinar, participants will be able to:

1. Describe the relationship between food choices, glucose balance, adrenal health, and nervous system regulation in the context of stress and trauma.
2. Explain how cravings and emotional eating behaviors may function as adaptive survival responses rather than pathology.
3. Identify at least two trauma-informed, non-diet-based strategies clinicians can integrate into conversations about food and nervous system care with clients.

Don’t miss this incredible conversation. Register to join Deran and Luis here.