Eating Disorder Recovery

Licensed mental health therapist, somatic healer, and eating disorder specialist Alishia McCullough understands that for far too many Black women, racial trauma’s seismic impact has disrupted their most essential relationship: the one they have with their bodies—and by extension, with their food. African Americans are disproportionately impacted by disordered eating behaviors, yet their experiences are frequently neglected by doctors and mental health experts.

This confessional self-help guide explores the complex emotional truth of what it’s like when food, weight, and body image take priority over every other human impulse or action. Activist author Marissa LaRocca’s revelatory tale includes her struggle with her secrets, including sexuality, and how she emerged as an outspoken advocate for gay rights and women’s health issues.

Weight loss advice, laughter, and inspiration from the delicious, caloric, yet uncomfortably large life experiences of a formerly fat man. Allen Zadoff spent years believing that a big, healthy man should have a big, healthy appetite and that his rapidly increasing girth was just a regular guy thing. However, at 350 pounds, it became clear that what had started as a minor weight issue was now threatening his well-being. In a desperate search for a new way of living that would guide him toward a healthier future, Zadoff began to focus less on what he ate and more on the physical and ...

I haven't tasted chocolate for over ten years and now I'm walking down the street unwrapping a Kit Kat. Remember when Kate Moss said, 'Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels'? She's wrong: chocolate does. At the age of 32, after ten years of hiding from the truth, Emma Woolf finally decided it was time to face the biggest challenge of her life. Addicted to hunger, exercise and control, she was juggling a full-blown eating disorder with a successful career, functioning on an apple a day.

When a restrictive eating disorder has had a destructive effect on your life and you haven't been able to understand why it's so hard to overcome, Addicted to Energy Deficit is the book you need. Bringing in neuroscience and research evidence, as well as personal and professional experience, Helly Barnes provides an explanation for restrictive eating disorders that will resolve your unanswered questions and fit your experience. This includes: A credible explanation for restrictive eating disorders as a brain-based addiction to the state of energy deficit. The evolutionary, genetic and ...

Expertly written as the ultimate blueprint for mental well-being, this complete 3-book dialectical behavior therapy bundle invites you to join Amazon bestselling author of multiple DBT workbooks Barrett Huang as he reveals a tried-and-tested approach to manage whatever psychological struggles are dominating your life.

A member of various 12 Step programs since 1981, the author relates his experience, strength and hope as to why the program doesn't work for some and works for others. Anyone currently in a relapse can benefit greatly from this book.

This is not a guide to losing weight. There are millions of people who bounce from one diet to another without understanding why because they never look beyond their plates. McCarty believes that food addiction is a physical and mental problem with a spiritual solution. An interactive audiobook that asks listeners to be a part of their healing, Shades of Hope shares the teachings, therapies, exercises, and mind-set that McCarty has used and developed throughout her career in treating addiction.

If you want to learn better food choices are capable of controlling the compulsive eating behavior as well as weight gain...then keep reading! Do you want to experience feelings of calmness, alertness, and high levels of energy from the food eaten? Whatever do you eat affects the way you feel? Are you ready to make a change in your lifestyle? Here is the deal: Food not only nourishes your bodies but also makes you feel good. If you either eat too much or too less, the quality and health of life could be affected. This will result in having a negative feeling towards food.

Here's a do-it-yourself recovery method that's easy to use yet delivers results that will blow your mind! Recommended for help with: Addictions, Eating Disorders (including overeating), and OCD, the Recovery Workbook is more than simply practical and economical; it's the therapeutic solution for the busy self-helper. NEVER ENOUGH: A Recovery Workbook will reveal the underlying causes of addictive habits, compulsive thinking, and even eating disorders. This work-at-your-own-pace curriculum offers cutting-edge, research-backed approaches for managing worry, and resolving obsessive thinking. ...

This nonfiction self-help book for young listeners with disordered eating and body-image problems delivers real talk about eating disorders and body image, tools and information for recovery, and suggestions for dealing with the media messages that contribute so much to disordered eating.

With a wealth of clinical and lived experience, psychiatrist Dr Warren Ward and nutritionist/coach Lexi Crouch have dedicated their professional lives to helping people heal from eating disorders. They believe eating disorders are caused by inadequate brain nutrition, which can tip some people into a preoccupation with food, weight and numbers, leading to inflexible thinking, which in turn keeps them in a perpetual state of malnourishment and restriction.

If you want to know how to stop emotional binge eating and get permanent weight loss, then keep reading...The binge-eating disorder often goes undetected in most people who suffer from it. They simply think their overeating is normal. Eating can never be an effective weapon to combat your emotions. Hiding beyond your plates when your emotions are haywire is only going to put you under even more unneeded emotional stress. Beating binge-eating disorder is possible if you offer the right commitment to the process, as outlined in this audiobook.

For seven years, Shannon Kopp battled the silent, horrific, and all-too-common disease of bulimia. Then, at 24, she got a job working at the San Diego Humane Society and SPCA, where in caring for shelter dogs, she found the inspiration to heal and the courage to forgive herself. With the help of some extraordinary homeless animals, Shannon realized that her suffering was the birthplace of something beautiful. Compassion.

Our relationship with food is a complex one that has been allowed to change into something that can become an unhealthy obsession. If that sounds like what has happened to you and you want to change the way you eat, get a copy of Eating Disorder and change the way you live and eat today.

If you want to finally end your battle with eating disorders and take back control over your life… Then you've come to the right place… From this book, you’ll discover: why binging is not your fault…the real truth about binge eaters like you and me, tips that work for breaking your very unhealthy relationship with food…no matter how bad it may be right now, your brain on binge…and how it’s scientifically proven to be as addictive as drugs, and more.

Revealing a startlingly accomplished voice, Evanna uses her book to delve into the very heart of a woman's relationship with her own body. Unwilling to let the darkness of her eating disorder eclipse her dreams, but afraid to fully release the certainty and safety of self-destruction, Evanna explores the pivotal moments and choices in her life that led her down the path of creativity and dreaming and away from the empty pursuit of perfection, and reaches towards acceptance of the wild, sensual and unpredictable reality of womanhood.

Embark on a profound journey of self-discovery and healing with "Powerful Journaling for Body Image Healing." This transformative journaling guide is tailored for individuals navigating the complexities of Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD), providing a supportive framework for reclaiming a positive relationship with oneself.

The 10th anniversary edition of the book that has given hope and inspiration to thousands who are dealing with eating disorders.

Positively Caroline: How I Beat Bulimia for Good and Found Real Happiness, is one of the first books of its kind to tackle the subject of how eating disorder survivors can and do create lives of joy and health that persist past the early years of recovery. Some media reports have led people to believe that there is an “addictive personality” that careens from addiction to addiction without ever experiencing lasting wellness, but Caroline’s story is a demonstration that many people can, and do, put food into its proper perspective and then go on to handle other life challenges without ...