For so many people, whether your addiction is to a substance or merely to a certain way of thinking or acting, a profound humbling occurs when you realise that your problem is bigger than you are. This CD is for you if you know in your heart that you are an addict, and that you are powerless before your addictive behaviour.
After achieving a level of recovery from an eating disorder, it is vital to ensure the right practical and emotional supports are in place to maintain that recovery indefinitely. This book confronts the subject of how to take the essential steps towards a healthy and happy life after recovering from an eating disorder.
Provides advice for those who have developed negative patterns of behaviour around food and don''t know how to find a way out. This book teaches them how to understand and address their problem, and provides a plan that allows them to develop a healthy relationship with food and their body image.
Helps you sort through the many treatment options available to help you recover from an eating disorder. This title covers various medications and treatment programs, underlying causes and risk factors, and strategies for detecting and preventing eating disorders.
Explains anorexia, bulimia, and binge eating disorder, as well as other disorders such as bigorexia and compulsive exercising. This guide contains informative checklists that help you determine whether you are suffering form an eating disorder and, if so, what impact the disorder is having or may soon have on your health.
Eating disorders affect not only those afflicted, but spouses, partners, children, family and friends. This book aims to create a dialogue between adults, children and their clinicians, and to help children understand why their loved one with an eating disorder is behaving in certain ways. It addresses children's questions in a caring fashion.
What is an eating disorder? What are the symptoms? What causes them? And is full recovery possible? This book helps readers to come to an understanding of eating disorders and the various stages involved in recovery. It is suitable for sufferers, their family and friends and also the interested reader.
Takes readers through the daily struggle with a potentially lethal obsession, the fear of over eating: a harrowing account of the author's triumphs and tragedies on the long road to recovery after being hospitalized at 15. This book presents the story of a young girl at war with herself and anyone who fights to keep her alive.
There may be a range of psychological and environmental reasons why people turn to food. The good news is that this behaviour can be tackled with success. This book explores the zone we enter when comfort eating prevents us living the life we want to live, or from becoming the people we want to be, and advises on how to break the eating addiction.
Intended for the sufferer to work through alone or with guided assistance, this treatment guide contains multiple copies of blank worksheets, diaries and exercises suitable for a two-week course of treatment. The bulimia sufferer may be able to write directly into the workbook, allowing him or her to trace progress over the course of treatment.
Offers effective support and solutions for parents, spouses, friends, and all others who are the 'silent sufferers' of eating disorders. This book offers information on what methods and practices work best for families, helping readers take actions that encourages the recovery process.
A final work by the late author of Drinking: A Love Story considers the challenge of women to know and honor their wants in a culture that would control a woman's expression of desire, drawing on her experiences with anorexia to discuss the factors that shape a woman's relationship with food, love,
Presents a holistic plan to address the needs of eating disorder sufferers and their carers. Part memoir, part self help manual, this book tells the personal story a mother who wanted desperately to save the life of her daughter, and succeeded. It explains how you can beat any eating disorder at its very core.
Anorexia is a distressing condition that commonly affects teenage girls but also touches women and men across various ages. This book is aimed at sufferers, parents and partners, and points out how to recognise anorexia, and what to do about it. It deals with the physical and psychological features.
Helps you to be aware of your feelings, the way you talk to yourself and how that pushes you to manipulate food as a way of finding some relief. This book lets you begin to understand how to find another way of managing your day-to-day experience and put the horrors of disordered eating behind you.
A memoir of the author that documents her battle with an eating disorder. Focusing primarily on her three months in a treatment facility, it reveals several important themes: body image and sexuality, sexual abuse and relationships, and the struggle to piece together one's path in life. It presents an account of her experience with treatment.
Delving into the complex world of eating disorders, this book explores the devastating mental and physical effects of anorexia, bulimia, and compulsive eating. It helps readers recognise symptoms, develop an understanding of the disorders, and work towards a healthy recovery.
Eating disorders are usually associated with females but there are an increasing number of males affected by anorexia and bulimia. This title describes how to cope with male eating disorders. It is suitable for people working in health centres, clinics and hospitals.
Describing the author's struggle as a black woman with an eating disorder that is consistently portrayed as a white woman's problem, this title presents a narrative that traces the background and factors that caused her bulimia. It answers many questions about why black women often do not seek traditional therapy for emotional problems.
Leading researchers in acceptance and commitment therapy suggest to readers struggling with anorexia that strategies to control their disorder are themselves problems. Instead, they use the techniques of acceptance and commitment therapy to teach how better to cope with out-of-control emotions and thoughts.
Shares a young woman's candid chronicle of her long and ultimately fatal battle with the eating disorder anorexia. This book illustrates her intense emotional struggles - her pride at improving her health clashing with her guilt over eating, her conflict between will and reason, and the war between self-confidence and self-doubt that plagued her.
Ruby Gettinger was 500 pounds when she was diagnosed with Type 2 Diabetes. Ruby made a genuine commitment to uncover all the underlying physical and psychological causes of her addiction. To support her on this difficult journey, Ruby has kept a journal of her experiences. This book describes her experiences.
Diabulimia is an eating disorder in which people with Type 1 diabetes deliberately give themselves less insulin than they need, for the purpose of weight loss. This is one woman's memoir of her journey from illness to recovery, and carves a pathway of hope and empowerment for the millions who continue to suffer with diabulimia.
At fourteen years of age, Constance Barter was admitted as an in-patient to a specialist eating disorders unit where she remained for seven months. This book presents an account of the young woman's struggle with anorexia nervosa, a serious mental illness.
People living with eating disorders find it hard to take the step of choosing recovery, often because the disorder has developed as a way of 'coping' with problems or stresses in the their life. This book outlines ways of dealing with eating disorders for people living with eating disorders and their families.
Explores the problems created by having ready access to high fat foods designed to taste good. This book employs Compassion Focused Therapy - a therapeutic approach - to understand and work with our urges and passions for food. It covers the relationship between our brains and food, and the background to finding, conserving and eating food.
Focuses on how to have a healthy relationship with food and with yourself. This book looks at eating disorders within the context of general body image and self-perception. Topics covered include: distorted body image and how it can impact on eating habits; anorexia; bulimia; compulsive overeating; getting back to normal eating; and more.
Provides an introduction to the subject of anorexia nervosa and its treatment using cognitive behavioural techniques for therapists, sufferers and their families. This work offers a self-help programme for recovery based on the treatment, which the author has used in his work with hundreds of patients.
Increasingly boys and men are suffering with eating disorders and related body image problems. Combining the science of cognitive behaviour therapy with motivational enhancement and problem-solving therapies, this title helps men with body image disorders, as well as families and professionals involved in their care.
Suitable for the bulimia and binge-eating sufferer to work through alone or with guided assistance, this step-by-step treatment guide is presented as a three-part, large format, practical manual, complete with multiple copies of blank worksheets, diaries and exercises suitable for a two-week course of treatment.
For the millions of people with bulimia regaining a healthy relationship to food is an uphill battle with much at stake. This book presents a fresh approach to the treatment of bulimia and similar eating disorders through ACT. It encourages readers to mindfully accept their deepest fears and concerns about food, eating, and their bodies.
Intended for the sufferer to work through alone or with guided assistance, this work contains multiple copies of blank worksheets, diaries and exercises suitable for a two-week course of treatment. The bulimia sufferer may able to write directly into the workbook, allowing him or her to trace progress over the course of treatment.
As many as one in 20 women in the western world suffer bouts of uncontrolled binge-eating. Going without food for long periods, making yourself vomit and taking laxatives you don't need are also common and are symptoms of bulimia nervosa. This title offers an explanation of the disorder and the serious health issues that can result from it.
Intended for the sufferer to work through alone or with guided assistance, this treatment guide contains multiple copies of blank worksheets, diaries and exercises suitable for a two-week course of treatment. The bulimia sufferer may be able to write directly into the workbook, allowing him or her to trace progress over the course of treatment.