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A girl with an eating disorder grows up. And then what? In this groundbreaking book, science journalist Trisha Gura explodes the myth that those who suffer from eating disorders, including anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa, are primarily teenage girls. In truth, twenty-five to thirty million American women twenty-five and older suffer from serious food issues, from obsessions with calorie counting to compulsions to starve then overeat. These diseases...
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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...
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"Jacqueline Alnes was a Division One runner during her freshman year of college, but her season was cut short by a series of inexplicable neurological symptoms. What started with a cough, escalated to Alnes collapsing on the track and experiencing months of unremembered episodes that stole her ability to walk and speak. Two years after quitting the team to heal, Alnes's symptoms returned with a severity that left her using a wheelchair for a period...
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Are you ready to break up with your bulimia, for real?
Has your long love affair with the binge/purge cycle finally run its course, but breaking up with it has proven impossible? Even scary? In this candid account, addiction recovery coach Lori Losch leads those struggling to break up with bulimia through ten strategies to help them gain freedom with food, while learning to love their body. Between a two-decade battle with bulimia and body dysmorphic...
5) Hungry ghost
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After the sudden death of her father, sixteen-year-old Valerie Chu, who is hiding an eating disorder from her friends and family, reevaluates her life, her choices and her own body as she tries to find the strength to seek help.
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Esta nueva edición de El muro de la anorexia, que contiene algunos añadidos para su actualización, pone al alcance de nuevos lectores en lengua castellana una obra que ha pasado a ser ya un clásico en el abordaje de la clínica y del tratamiento psicoanalítico de la anorexia y de la bulimia. Obra clásica porque la profundidad y calidad de este trabajo hace que perdure su vigencia. El muro de la anorexia constituye un tratado imprescindible para...
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La relación de algunas mujeres con su propio cuerpo; lo perturbador del mismo; sujetos que ponen en juego un empeño férreo, muchas veces devastador y mortífero, por controlarlo; el rechazo, bastante frecuente, de la carne en el plato de la anoréxica y el rechazo de la propia carne, son temas que sugieren preguntas tales como ¿porqué esa peculiar relación con la comida? ¿Qué sucede con el apetito? ¿Porqué se rehuye la comensalidad, la fiesta?...
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In The Wisdom of Your Body, clinical psychologist and award-winning researcher Hillary McBride explored the ways many of us inherit a broken understanding of the body and offered a more compassionate, healthy, and holistic perspective on embodied life. In this follow-up book, McBride takes the principles of The Wisdom of Your Body and puts them into action in practical, tangible ways.
Practices for Embodied Living offers an experiential guide-centered...
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This practical resource guide shares essential information and personal stories from eating disorder survivors, family members, caretakers, and others.
When someone you love is in the throes of an eating disorder, it can be difficult to believe recovery is possible. By Their Side offers help and hope to those fighting alongside a loved one in the struggle against this heartbreaking illness. Providing first-hand testimony, scientific expertise, resources,...
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"Once upon a time teenage Aurora Evans met a hockey player at the Mall of America. He was from Canada. And soon, he was the perfect fake boyfriend, a get-out-of-jail-free card for all kinds of sticky situations. I can't go to prom. I'm going to be visiting my boyfriend in Canada. He was just what she needed to cover her social awkwardness. He never had to know. It wasn't like she was ever going to see him again... Years later, Aurora is teaching kids'...
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For caretakers of those struggling with eating disorders, this workbook and journal helps process and utilize the guidance offered in By Their Side.
The Lara Lyn Bell team knows the healing power of journaling firsthand. In Working By Their Side, they offer guidance for further reflection on the advice, testimonials, and resources found in By Their Side.
Working By Their Side fosters meaningful discovery through prompts that encourage openness and...
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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview:
#1 The act of dieting promotes weight gain in a variety of age groups. The body's attempt to survive the dieting process is to slow down your metabolism, destroy your muscle tissue, and become more hungry and preoccupied with food.
#2 The war on obesity has created bigger health problems, as high-quality studies show that being at a lower weight does not confer better...
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Childhood obesity in the United States has tripled in a generation. But while debates continue over the content of school lunches and the dangers of fast food, we are just beginning to recognize the full extent of the long-term physical, psychological, and social problems that overweight children will endure throughout their lives. Most dramatically, children today have a shorter life expectancy than their parents, something never before seen in the...
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Written unflinchingly, Why My Daughter? From Binge Eating to Restriction chronicles an intergenerational journey with disordered eating that swings dangerously between bingeing and restriction. After witnessing her daughter's eating disorder diagnosis at a very young age, the author's quest for meaning uncovered something deeper: a family narrative stretching across time, with ancestral roots. She realizes her daughter's illness is not an isolated...
16) Love Hunger
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Based on the premise that overeating is linked to emotional and spiritual deprivations, Love Hunger begins with a relationship inventory that will help you understand how disappointments with your family, spouse, or self can result in obesity. It then provides a comprehensive program that helps identify whether or not you are using food as a substitute for love, career fulfillment, or friendship and shows you how to break that addiction. Once you...
17) Atracones
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El trastorno de la alimentación por atracón representa el trastorno alimentario más común en nuestro planeta hoy en día. Desde su inclusión formal en el DSM V, la investigación ha seguido moscando muestra lo destructiva y potencialmente dañina que es para la salud y el bienestar general. Los enfermos pierden el control sobre sus emociones y se vuelven hacia la comida para llenar una creciente brecha mental y emocional.
Este libro, "ATRACONES;...
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"Jackie Newsome's best friend is dead, and everyone knows who killed her. Jackie is an ex-emotional eater and mother of four, who has finally lost the weight she long yearned to be free of. But leaving her old self behind proves harder than she ever imagined. She believes she should be happier, but misery still chases her, and motherhood threatens to consume her. Her only salve is Theresa, her best friend whose life she desperately covets. Their bond...
19) Hunger
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Riders of the Apocalypse volume 1
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IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
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Seventeen-year-old Lisabeth has anorexia, and even turning into Famine--one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse--cannot keep her from feeling fat and worthless.
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