Self-Help : Eating Disorders

Describes the different experiences and challenges faced by teenage girls with anorexia and their families. This book demonstrates that the starting point for understanding anorexia must be the unique stories of individuals and their families. more...

Price: $19.95

Normandi and Roark outline the useful and proven techniques that they have developed in their Beyond Hunger workshops, and assist readers in determining the differences between what their bodies crave to eat, what their minds think they should eat, and what their emotions are driving them to eat. more...

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A unique new approach to treating eating disorders. Eight million women in the United States suffer from anorexia nervosa and/or bulimia. For these women, the road to recovery is a rocky one. Many succumb to their eating disorders. Life Without Ed offers hope to all those who suffer from these often deadly disorders. For years, author Jennifer Schaefer lived with both anorexia and bulimia. She credits her successful recovery to the technique she learned from her psychologist, Thom Rutledge. This groundbreaking book illustrates Rutledge's technique. As in the author's case, readers are encouraged to think of an eating disorder as if it were a distinct being with a personality of its own. Further, they are encouraged to treat the disorder as a relationship rather than as a condition. Schaefer named her eating disorder Ed; her recovery involved ''breaking up'' with Ed.:.; Shares the points of view of both patient and therapist in this approach to treatment.; Helps people see the disease as a relationship from which they can distance themselves.; Techniques to defeat negative thoughts that plague eating disorder patients. Prescriptive, supportive, and inspirational, Life Without Ed shows readers how they too can overcome their eating disorders. more...

Price: $15.95

With her signature acerbic wit and captivating insight, the author of the wildly popular Straight Up and Dirty offers a powerful and beautifully stark portrait of adolescence. While she is pregnant with twins, one sentence uttered by her doctor sends Stephanie Klein reeling: "You need to gain fifty pounds." Instantly, an adolescence filled with insecurity and embarrassment comes flooding back. Though she is determined to gain the weight for the health of her babies—even if it means she'll "weigh more than a Honda"—she can only express her deep fear by telling her doctor simply, "I used to be fat.". Klein was an eighth grader with a weight problem. It was a problem at school, where the boys called her "Moose," and it was a problem at home, where her father reminded her, "No one likes fat girls." After many frustrating sessions with a nutritionist known as the fat doctor of Roslyn Heights, Long Island, Klein's parents enrolled her for a summer at fat camp. Determined to return to school thin and popular, without her "lard arms" and "puckered ham," Stephanie embarked on a memorable journey that would shape more than just her body. It would shape her life. In the ever-shifting terrain between fat and thin, adulthood and childhood, cellulite and starvation, Klein shares the cutting details of what it truly feels like to be an overweight child, from the stinging taunts of classmates, to the off-color remarks of her own father, to her thin mother's compulsive dissatisfaction with her own body. Calling upon her childhood diary entries, Klein reveals her deepest thoughts and feelings from that turbulent, hopeful time, baring her soul and making her heartache palpable. Whether Klein is describing her life as a chubby adolescent camper—getting weighed on a meat scale, petting past curfew, and "chunky dunking" in the lake—or what it's like now as a fit mother, more...

Price: $11.99

Describing the author's struggle as a black woman with an eating disorder that is consistently portrayed as a white woman's problem, this title presents a narrative that traces the background and factors that caused her bulimia. It answers many questions about why black women often do not seek traditional therapy for emotional problems. more...

Price: $12.95