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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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Eating Disorders: Food Addiction & Its Effects, What Can You Do If You Can't Stop Overeating? This book is a wonderful place to start if you're interested in your eating habits.It discusses food addiction and related issues. Food addiction, emotional eating, binge eating, the midnight munchies, eating out of boredom, consuming forbidden foods, and weight loss secrets are all topics we cover. This book will tell you what makes you tick when it comes...
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2024.
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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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Scribner
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[2018]
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First Scribner hardcover edition.
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xiv, 241 pages ; 22 cm
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"In this powerful and provocative memoir, Kiese Laymon fearlessly explores what the weight of a lifetime of secrets, lies, and deception does to a black body, a black family, and a nation teetering on the brink of moral collapse. Laymon invites us to consider the consequences of living in a country wholly obsessed with progress yet wholly disinterested in the messy work of reckoning with where we've been. In Heavy, Laymon writes eloquently and honestly...
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Mindy is a young woman living with an eating disorder and trapped in a battle for her own self-worth. When she accidentally discovers something that will give her a chance to revist her past, she thinks she has a chance to put her life back on track. But will she be able to find a way back to her present and treat herself with love and kindness at any size?
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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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You do not need any convincing that there is a problem. You desperately want to recover. Maybe you have hit rock bottom, or perhaps you are on the verge of hitting rock bottom. Maybe you have mustered up the courage to say enough is enough. But you are addicted and trapped. You are entirely engulfed in an eating disorder, feeling weak and helpless. You are looking for a lifeline. Now what? Megan Johnson is here to tell you how she found a way out!...
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It's not about willpower, and it's not about the food.Most people blame their eating behaviors on a lack of willpower.Eating intuitively hasn't worked.Eating less and moving more? Trying to change your body image? These only last so long.Many people are worried that they can never have a healthy relationship with food.Peace with Self, Peace with Food looks past all that, and gets to the heart of what causes our battles with food.Through her years...
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Pre-teen Ronni is a seemingly normal girl growing up in the suburbs, until the day her mom hides cookies. Soon after, Ronni has an unexplainable compulsion to eat, more and more, and more junk.
In secret and shame, she overeats and binges through tween years, high school, college, an abusive first marriage, and even a loving second marriage. Over thirty years, she steals food, eats food off, of others' plates, and scavenges food out of the trash,...
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If you have anorexia, there is hope for a full recovery. The Anorexia Recovery Skills Workbook offers an integrated and comprehensive program to help you rebuild a healthy relationship with food, gain a sense of autonomy and independence, develop a sense of self-worth and self-esteem, and set healthy goals for the future. If you have anorexia, it can be difficult to see yourself clearly, even after treatment. That's why it's so important for you to...
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“It's Not What Things You See, It's How You See Things” deals with many of the issues that are plaguing people in every walk of like. These things may not seem to be as destructive as the pandemic or natural disasters, but I guarantee they are extremely damaging to those involved. Suicide plagues the United States at a clip of over forty-eight thousand a year. Many of those suicides are due to how people look at themselves. It is estimated that...
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Find out: How to Achieve Willpower & Gain Focus to Achieve your Most Important Goals!
According to a 2010 survey made by the American Psychological Association, willpower deficiency is the NUMBER ONE hurdle people face in accomplishing their worthwhile goals.
In this book "self control: Developing Amazing Willpower to Achieve Goals that Matter", learn the strategies and techniques in order to gain effective willpower and self-control in getting...
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In Binge No More, eating disorder specialist Dr. Joyce Nash provides all the information, encouragement, and guidance readers need to transform their relationship with food. Readers will identify with the experiences of other binge eaters whose insightful stories are told throughout the book. Rather than providing a one-size-fits-all solution to binge eating, Dr. Nash provides a variety of sound cognitive therapy techniques and coping strategies to...
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Do you regularly deprive yourself, succumb to temptation, feel guilty, and then start the process all over again? If so, you need this book. Dr. Michelle May will guide you out of the food-focused, diet-driven downward spiral that leads you to eat, repent, and repeat. She offers a powerful alternative: end your love-hate relationship with food and start eating mindfully and joyfully. No more rigid rules, strict exercise regimens, questionable drugs,...
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We all think we know what we have to do to manage our weight, and blame ourselves when we don't meet the goals we have set. In reality, we need to understand the biology behind the body's regulation of weight to achieve the control we are hoping for. And we need strategies for overcoming obstacles: the stress of daily life, emotional upsets, and people who sabotage our efforts or attack our self-esteem. The Cognitive Behavioral Workbook for Weight...
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Recovery from an eating disorder requires support of all kinds, and this book is filled with ideas, exercises, and insights. Based on Kerrigan's own inspiring story, Telling Ed No! is a toolbox of over 100 practical recovery tools, from family interventions, yoga, and massage, to music, role playing and even holding ice! Each tool brings the recovery process to life with prompts for reflection and discussion. Readers looking for guidance will learn:...
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Beauty Comes with a Beast is the true story of Korrie Jo Vance. Korrie is a 30-year-old woman who has carried the secret of her eating disorder for 15 years. As she reaches for recovery, she shares within these pages how she got caught in the dieting trap, the trauma she faced, the lies she believed, her journey through therapy, and her advice for all those who are struggling to overcome a Beast of their own. She opens up her journal and gives us...
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If you eat to help manage your emotions, you may have discovered that it doesn't work. Once you're done eating, you might even feel worse. Eating can all too easily become a strategy for coping with depression, anxiety, boredom, stress, and anger, and a reliable reward when it's time to celebrate. If you are ready to experience emotions without consuming them or being consumed by them, the mindfulness, acceptance, and dialectical behavior therapy...
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Bibiana es una joven normal, inmersa en una sociedad obsesionada con la apariencia física. Como les sucede a muchas personas, ella cae en una trampa que pone en peligro su vida.
"Todo a mi alrededor es light. La gente come ensaladas, toma agua natural y va al gimnasio. El tema central de las conversaciones es dietas y ejercicio. Dicen que para triunfar en la vida se requiere estar delgado. Así que cuento las calorías de cada alimento, hago abdominales,...
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