Body Disorders

A body-focused, trauma-informed art therapy that will appeal to art therapists, somatic experiencing practitioners, bodyworkers, artists, and mental health professionals

Reversing Eating Disorders is a compassionate, science-based guide designed to help you break free from disordered eating and rediscover peace with food and your body. Whether you're struggling with binge eating, restrictive habits, emotional eating, or body dysmorphia, this audiobook offers a clear, proven path to healing, empowerment, and food freedom—once and for all.

Millions of women struggle with body image in a world of unrealistic expectations. But you don’t have to stay stuck in self-doubt. Positive Body Image for Women is your guide to self-acceptance, empowerment, and a healthier relationship with your body.

Are you tired of the endless cycle of dieting? Do you feel trapped in a battle against food and your body? Chronic dieting not only takes a toll on your mental health but also disconnects you from the natural wisdom of your body. The constant pressure from diet culture can lead to a harmful relationship with food and exercise, leaving you feeling defeated and unsatisfied. In "The Intuitive Eating Revolution," Paulina Scott, a seasoned health and wellness coach with 20 years of experience, offers a transformative approach to eating and living. Drawing from her extensive practice in Roanoke, ...

When a traumatic event occurs, our body triggers its “fight or flight” response. In many scenarios, the emotional reactions of this response get trapped, disrupting the feedback loop between our mind and body, leading to an imbalance in our nervous system function. Over time this can cause chronic stress, pain, high blood pressure, and a weakened immune system. This, alongside regular triggers in our everyday life, will manifest into a disconnection between our mind and body and create a constant feeling of dissociation from our emotions, with minimal control over how we feel.

A Guide to Sleep Your Way to Balance Nighttime Rituals to Recharge Your Body and Mind — Tips and Science-Backed Strategies for Improving Sleep Quality By Andrea Sinclair. As a busy mom of two, Andrea Sinclair knows firsthand how challenging it can be to prioritize sleep. In A Guide to Sleep Your Way to Balance, Andrea shares her personal journey and practical advice on how to build a sleep routine that works for you. This concise, easy-to-follow guide offers a collection of simple, actionable tips and science-backed strategies to help you improve your sleep quality and overall well-being.

Anxiety puts our bodies into "fight or flight" mode-and makes us more vulnerable to exhaustion, depression and illness. These guided mind-body techniques help listeners counteract anxiety through deep relaxation, enhanced problem-solving, and converting fear into positive energy.

Will is the only round kid in a school full of thin ones. So he hides…in baggy jeans and oversized hoodies, in the back row during class, and anywhere but the cafeteria during lunch. But shame isn’t the only feeling that dominates Will’s life. He’s also got a crush on a girl named Jules who he knows he doesn’t have a chance with, because of his size—but he can’t help wondering what if? Will’s best shot at attracting Jules’s attention is by slaying the Will Monster inside him by changing his eating habits and getting more exercise.

Keeping children bodies, minds, and emotions on task just got easier with this new book from self-regulation expert Teresa Garland. Featuring more than 200 practical and proven interventions, strategies, and adaptations for helping children gain more control over their lives. Each chapter provides rich background and theoretical material to help the listener better understand the issues our children face.

The consequences of racism can be found in our bodies - in skin and sinew, in bone and blood. In this groundbreaking, inspiring work, therapist Resmaa Menakem examines the damage, the physical consequences of discrimination, from the perspective of body-centred psychology. He argues that until we learn to heal and overcome the generational anguish of white supremacy, we will all continue to bear its scars. My Grandmother's Hands is an extraordinary call to action for all of us to recognise that racism affects not only the mind, but also the body.

Seventeen-year-old Maddie has always felt a hole in her life, but she has finally found a way to fill it with her quest to mold her body into her ideal, thinnest shape. When she comes across the world of “thinspiration” websites, where young people encourage each other in their mission to lose weight, she quickly becomes addicted. Finally, she has found a place where she is understood and where she can belong.

Get ready, this audiobook will change your life! In this guide you will learn how to eliminate the single behavior that 70 years of scientific research proves causes overeating, binge eating, and feeling out of control with food. Uncover the secret to being able to keep any food in your house - without it calling your name. Find out exactly why your best weight loss efforts have failed in the past - and more importantly, exactly what you can do to change it.

Your diet plays a dynamic role on mood, emotions, and brain-signaling pathways. Since brain chemistry is complicated, The Anti-Anxiety Diet breaks down exactly what you need to know and how to achieve positive results.

In It’s Always Been Ours, eating disorder specialist and storyteller, Jessica Wilson, challenges us to rethink what having a “good” body means in contemporary society. By centering the bodies of Black women in her cultural discussions of body image, food, health, and wellness, Wilson argues that we can interrogate white supremacy’s hold on us and reimagine the ways we think about, discuss, and tend to our bodies.

In this gripping and informative book, readers will gain a deeper understanding of the various types of eating disorders and the causes and risk factors that contribute to them. With a focus on recognizing the symptoms of eating disorders, readers will learn about the various diagnostic and assessment tools used in the evaluation process. The physical and emotional impact of eating disorders is also explored in depth, along with a comprehensive overview of the various treatment options available, including cognitive and behavioral interventions, medication, and nutritional approaches to ...

Today, we know more about mental health than ever before, but traditional medicine still mistakes subtle signs of trauma for stress, anxiety, or chronic disease—sometimes even retraumatizing patients with outdated and misguided methods. Treatment plans that focus on the mind are only addressing the downstream effects. Likewise, common medical approaches to manage symptoms fail to explore root causes and promote genuine recovery.

The Anxiety Prescription offers a toolkit of techniques for our thinking minds, and our feeling bodies – changing not just our mindset, but our 'body-set'. Unravelling the intricate relationship between anxiety, the body and the mind, this powerful book offers a profound path toward healing and growth.

Unlock holistic health and mental clarity by transforming your life with the power of your vagus nerve—especially if you’ve tried everything else without success! Do you suffer from PTSD? Are you exhausted from battling chronic stress and anxiety without finding lasting relief? Are you overwhelmed by conflicting health advice and uncertain about what works? Are you searching for a natural, science-backed solution that seamlessly fits your busy lifestyle? You're not alone if you answered "yes" to any of these questions. Many people face these same challenges, but there is a path to change.

“What can I do to feel better?” For years, millions of adults who suffer from Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS), Inflammatory Bowel Disorder (IBD), Arthritis, Depression, Obesity, and diabetes, have asked this question, often to be met with scientifically unfounded or inadequate advice. A functional medicine and intestinal health expert in New York City for over two decades, Victoria Bowley authors “The Low-FODMAP Diet” and “The Microbiome Diet” makes it simple and accessible to discover relief from IBS, IBD and upset guts, and ails other related Disorder. In this holistic 2-in-1 ...

If you’re like most people, the relentless daily grind of go-go-go, do-do-do, can run down your energy and deplete your resources. While most of us find our lives full of “Upstate” moments that rev up our stress engines, it doesn’t have to be this way. World-renowned sleep researcher Sara C. Mednick, PhD, shows us how we can access the most replenishing and repairing aspects of sleep through activities and moments that happen during our day by diving into our “Downstate”.