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"Every person who suffers from binge-eating disorder is unique-and what may help one person overcome compulsive eating may not work for another. That's why The Binge Eating Prevention Workbook offers a wide range of evidence-based tools to help readers ofall ages and backgrounds take control of their eating habits. Using the eight-week protocol in this book, readers will learn how to recognize their triggers, cope with difficult emotions, improve...
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Roxane Gay addresses the experience of living in a body that she calls 'wildly undisciplined.' She casts an insightful and critical eye over her childhood, teens, and twenties -- including the devastating act of violence that was a turning point at age 12 -- and brings readers into the present and the realities, pains, and joys of her daily life. With candor, vulnerability, and authority, Roxane explores what it means to be overweight in a time when...
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"Eating disorders are mental illnesses that have dangerous physical consequences. Young adults are most at risk for developing these disorders. This volume aims to educate readers about the causes and effects of disorders such as anorexia, bulimia, and compulsive eating. Fact boxes highlight the stories of celebrities who struggle with these issues, and full-color photographs show the unglamorous reality of living with an eating disorder. Websites...
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"If your loved one is one of millions of Americans who suffers from an eating disorder such as anorexia nervosa or bulimia, you may feel alone, without guidance or understanding. As a romantic partner, you need to know how to navigate issues such as parenting, sex and intimacy, and running a household. This book provides that help by addressing your uniquely complex and difficult situation, and provides much-needed support for growth and healing....
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Following the death of her father, a thirteen-year-old uses bulimia as a way to avoid her mother's and ten-year-old sister's grief, as well as her own.
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Stories I Tell My Patients by Arnold Andersen, MD has been an intermittent feature in Eating Disorders: The Journal of Treatment and Prevention from 1993 to 2015. The complete set of 101 stories is collected here in one volume for the first time. Combining myth, metaphor, fable, tall tale, and inventive fantasy, they were originally intended for professionals treating eating disorders to read and share with their clients, though they can also be read...
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Fatal Reflection is not a crime novel but has criminal overtones in that the main character is assaulted by a relentless killer, Anorexia Nervosa. Alexandra takes us, chapter by chapter, through her relentless fight against a determined enemy. She tells it how it is, does not shy away from exposing her own weaknesses, nor does she underestimate the ferocity of the battles she must win. Her writing skill allows us into her private world where she paints...
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"Father Hunger" is the emptiness experienced by women whose fathers were physically or emotionally absent void that leads to unrealistic body image, yo-yo dieting, food fears and disordered eating patterns. The term, which is now part of the psychology lexicon, originated with the first edition of this work in 1991. After having completed a decade's worth of further investigation, Dr. Maine has updated the information about men and their daughters...
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La obesidad es omnipresente hoyEn muchas ciudades, más de la mitad de los adultos son obesos y muchos de los niños también lo son. Uno de los mayores contribuyentes a la obesidad es el atracón de comida. El atracón de comida es cuando alguien se ve obligado a comer compulsivamente y sigue comiendo pasando el punto de plenitud e incluso llegando el punto de dolor físico.
A menudo se realiza en un estado alterado de conciencia en el que el comensal...
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Depuis combien de temps tentez-vous de contrler votre corps ou de modifier votre apparence? Avez-vous déjà réfléchi à l'énergie dépensée dans ce contrle? Qu'auriez-vous fait de cette énergie si vous aviez fait le choix de l'investir ailleurs?
Si vous êtes ici, c'est que vous présentez une forme d'insatisfaction corporelle ou que vous travaillez avec des personnes qui en présentent une. Si vous êtes ici, c'est surtout parce que vous cherchez...
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Of all the books written about eating disorder, only one looks at what the Bible says about this all-too-common struggle in the lives of young women. Hungry Souls digs deeply into God's Word to uncover the origins of eating disorder in history, sins that contribute to anorexia and bulimia, prophecies relevant to eating disorder, the relationship between eating disorder and sexuality, an anorexic woman in the Bible, why eating disorder is prevalent...
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In this non-fiction story of struggle and grief, My Secret Life: A Memoir of Bulimia details one teenager's battle with Bulimia Nervosa. After years of bullying, Leanne Waters examines the development of her illness and looks closely at the psychological foundations of this ambiguous disease. It is a first-hand account of a secret world that lurks behind closed doors in daily life. A penetrating insight into the mentality of a Bulimic, the story follows...
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"How can Chasing Hunger, the 90 day Bulimia Breakthrough Method help me with my recovery? Whether you are in recovery and taking care of yourself at home now, or attempting to help yourself make a decision about seeking help, this book offers specific step-by-step strategies to help you target areas that can trigger binge eating. In Chasing Hunger, understanding the source that can trigger such behaviour like having certain emotions trigger a binge...
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Are you one of the millions of people suffering from Binge Eating Disorder? Are you caught in the trap of binge eating, emotional eating, mindless eating, and diet obsession? This book will help you to stop binge eating right now. You will heal the underlying issues that lead to your binge eating when you implement this complete mind, body and spirit approach to healing. It will help you to become the person, who you know you are, while gently guiding...
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A startling, remarkable poetry memoir of love and pain, hurt and recovery.
For three years, Eireann Corrigan was in and out of treatment facilities for her eating disorders. By the time she graduated high school, her doctors said she was going to die if things didn't change. That July, her high school boyfriend attempted suicide. In one gunshot moment, everything was altered. In a striking and vivid voice, Eireann Corrigan recounts these events,...
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"Losing her mother to a hit-and-run at age 15 threw Beatrice "Beans" Bennett's life into turmoil. Bereft, she developed a life-threatening eating disorder, and went through a challenging recovery process which paved the way for her work as a clinical psychologist decades later. When a new patient arrives at her office and insists that Beans's mother is still alive-and in danger-Beans is forced to revisit her past in order to uncover the truth. She...
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¿Por qué no me veo como soy? Por la presión sobre la imagen, por la tiranía del cuerpo, por la búsqueda desesperada de la belleza...
La prevención es el mejor antídoto contra la insatisfacción corporal. En este libro se dan las pautas para protegerse tanto a nivel individual como familiar y social y a ser más competente para sobrevivir ante la presión mediática de la perfección pero también a nuestras propias inseguridades.
La obsesión...
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The statistics regarding eating disorders are staggering. 30-million people in the U.S. alone suffer from eating disorders and every 62 minutes, a person dies as a direct result of an eating disorder. In fact, there is a higher mortality rate from eating disorders than from any other mental illness.
Co-editors Catherine Brown, a writer, and Christina Tinker, corporate storyteller and courage cultivator, are among the 60% of people who have recovered...
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For 11 years, I lived with Lillie, my secret eating disorder.
She crept like a shadow, invading every corner of my life,
stealing my joy and whispering sweet you'll-be-nothings.
Now, I'm free and happy
and I want to share my secrets of freedom with you.
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If you're holding this book, there's a part of you that wants your life back.
That part of you stretches to believe in the possibility of recovery
and a life of freedom and happiness.
Throwing...
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What really happens, when someone develops an eating disorder? What therapies work best? Can a cure be, found? Will life ever return to normal? These are just a few of the questions that run through the minds of ordinary people and their loved ones when faced with anorexia, bulimia, and binge eating disorder.
In Through the Eyes of an Eating Disorder, ordinary women open up and invite readers inside their own secretive world to give honest-and sometimes,...
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