Eating Disorders

The authors share their unique stories of suffering from and eventually overcoming their own severe eating disorders. Costin and Grabb walk readers through the ins and outs of the recovery process, describing what therapy entails, clarifying the common associated emotions such as fear, guilt, and shame, and, most of all, providing motivation to seek help if you have been discouraged, resistant, or afraid. For anyone who has suffered, their family and friends, and other helping professionals, this book should be by your side.

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Spotting the Stealth Bomber and Other Symbolic Approaches This book will allow parents and caregivers to ally themselves with treatment rather than the eating disorder. Written by experienced eating-disorder specialists, the book will help caregivers to reach out to young people having difficulty cooperating with treatment. Its effective use of analogies and metaphors helps to crystallize a practical understanding of eating disorders and the crucial aspects of the treatment process. Integrating medical, psychological, and narrative aspects, as well as the visual (with illustrations), it encourages the reader, and by extension the sufferer, to conceptualize each step towards health.

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How to Accept Yourself, Heal Your Suffering, and Reclaim Your Life Structured in a logical, step-by-step progression of exercises, the workbook first focuses on providing you with a new understanding of anorexia and the ways you might have already tried to control the problem. Then the book progresses through techniques that teach how to use mindfulness to deal with out-of-control thoughts and feelings, how to identify choices that lead to better heath and quality of life, and how to redirect the energy formerly spent on weight loss into actions that will heal the body and mind. Although this book is written specifically as self-help for anorexia sufferers, it includes a clear and informative chapter on when you need to seek professional treatment as well as advice on what to look for in a therapist.

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Overcome Body Dysmorphic Disorder and End Body Image Obsessions Checking and rechecking one's appearance in the mirror may be more than vanity; it could be a sign of Body Dysmorphic Disorder. This condition can lead to unnecessary plastic surgery, eating disorders, steroid abuse, even suicide. Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD) is highly treatable. This workbook contains cognitive-behavioral techniques that are provided in a step-by-step, easy-to-follow format. The authors are experts in the field of OCD and offer this book as a guide through a proven intervention plan.

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Are you ready to learn skills and nutrition guidelines recommended by doctors and therapists for healthy eating and how to quell the often overpowering urge to overeat? This workbook will help you identify trigger foods and feelings that spur you to binge or overeat, determine how stress, depression, and anxiety may be affecting your eating, and calm yourself in stressful times with nourishing self-care practices - This book helps you learn how to appreciate and accept your body.

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Do you feel like your eating gets out of control? When it comes to food, does it feel like your life is controlled by cycles of deprivation and bingeing? Whether or not you've been formally diagnosed with a binge-eating disorder, you know that something needs to change. But like many disorders, what helps one person may not help another. That's why. The Binge Eating Prevention Workbook offers a wide range of evidence-based tools to help you take charge of your eating habits.

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An Eight-Step Program for Learning to Like Your Looks The Body Image Workbook offers a comprehensive program to help you stop focusing on your perceived imperfections and start feeling more confident about the way you look. This book includes discussions of our obsession with physical appearance and with body-fixing options. It helps you discover your personal body image strengths and vulnerabilities and then guides you in creating new, life-changing experiences of mindfulness and body acceptance.

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A Guide to Recovery This intimate self-help guidebook offers a complete understanding of bulimia and a plan for recovery. It includes a two-week program to stop bingeing, ideas for things to do instead of bingeing, a guide for support groups, specific advice for loved ones, and "Eat Without Fear," Lindsey Hall's story of her self-cure, which has inspired thousands of other bulimics. This 25th anniversary edition updates all information from previous editions, with additional material on assessment, new diagnostic categories, men and bulimia, evidence-based treatment, family-assisted recovery, the influence of media (including the Internet), the essentials of "long-term recovery," and much more.

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This workbook teaches readers a healthier coping mechanism for dealing with their feelings called dialectical behavior therapy (DBT). Using skills drawn from this proven approach, along with motivational interviewing, readers learn to regulate their emotions in effective ways that are healthy for mind and body. Worksheets and exercises throughout the book help readers put new skills like commitment, mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness into practice. This book also helps readers identify and address mental health conditions, such as anxiety and depression, that are often comorbid with bulimia.

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A Proven Program to Break the Cycle of Bingeing and Out-of-Control Eating Grounded in dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), this motivating guide offers a powerful pathway to change. Drs. Debra L. Safer, Sarah Adler, and Philip C. Masson have translated their proven, state-of-the-art treatment into a compassionate self-help resource for anyone struggling with bingeing and other types of "stress eating."

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This ground-breaking book gives clinicians a new set of tools for helping people overcome binge-eating disorder and bulimia. It presents an adaptation of dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) developed expressly for this population. The treatment is unique in approaching disordered eating as a problem of emotional deregulation. Step-by-step guidelines are provided for implementing DBT skills training in mindfulness, emotion regulation, and distress tolerance, including a specially tailored skill, mindful eating.

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A Proven-Effective, Step-by-Step Guide to End Your Battle with Food and Satisfy Your Soul. In The Emotional Eating Workbook , you'll learn about the real psychological needs that underlie your food cravings, how to meet those needs in positive ways, be mindful of your body, and find the deep satisfaction many overeaters seek in food. The Anchor Program approach detailed in this book is not about dieting. It's about being anchored to your true, authentic self. When you find your unique anchor, you will relate better to your body, you'll know intuitively how to feed your body, and you'll reach the weight that's right for you.

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Recovery for Adults with the Plate-by-Plate Approach If you struggle with anorexia, bulimia, binge eating, or another form of disordered eating, the path to normal eating may seem impossible. This is why Wendy Sterling and Casey Crosbie created the Plate-by-Plate Approach: a simple, numberless, exchange-free program to restore your relationship with food. In this practical, easy-to-use guide-complete with sample plates, example schedules, and helpful tracking logs-they teach you to take control of your nutrition with nothing more than a 10-inch plate.

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A Non-Diet, Body-Positive Way to Build a Healthy Relationship with Food With this breakthrough workbook, you'll learn to notice and respect your body's natural hunger and fullness signals, find real eating satisfaction, cultivate body positivity, and build a profound connection to your mind and body for years to come. Each chapter includes an important principle of intuitive eating, and includes worksheets and activities to help you connect with and deepen your skills.

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A Teen's Guide to Positive Body Image, Food, and Emotional Wisdom This excellent workbook for teens aged thirteen through sixteen promotes positive body image and a healthy relationship to food. It also gives sensible, no-nonsense advice on how to prevent disordered eating of all kinds. It breaks down myths about diets and is full of tools and strategies to support connected eating, body positivity, and balanced exercise.

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A groundbreaking workbook to help you develop healthy coping strategies, build a solid support network, and stay on the path to recovery. If you’ve been in therapy for an eating disorder, such as anorexia nervosa or bulimia, your past treatment may have focused on helping you control your emotions and contain your behaviors. However, research now shows that many people with eating disorders actually suffer from emotional overcontrol. Based on more than twenty years of research, this breakthrough workbook offers skills based in radically open dialectical behavior therapy (RO DBT), a proven-effective, transdiagnostic approach for treating disorders of overcontrol (OC).

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This insightful book examines different types of eating disorders, including anorexia, bulimia, and compulsive overeating, and discusses causes, symptoms, treatment, and prevention. It comes with up-to-date information and first-hand accounts shed light on the body image and eating disorders that are becoming increasingly common in adolescence.

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Written by three leading experts in the fields of disordered eating, mental health, and trauma-informed care, this book will become your go-to guide for learning how to reject diet culture, heal your relationship with food, and feel at home in your body. In these pages, you’ll find a wealth of information, strategies, and stories to help you: trust your body to know what it needs to feel comfortable and satiated; break free from the rigidity of dieting and the chaos of binge eating; unlearn messages about when and what you’re “supposed” to eat; understand the emotional connection that everyone has with food; let go of internalized weight stigma and body shame; dispel myths about weight, health, and fitness; and recognize diets disguised as wellness or health plans.

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A Workbook For Teens With Anorexia, Bulimia, And Other Eating Disorders Bingeing, purging, excessive dieting, and relentless exercising are all destructive behaviors common among young women with eating disorders. The activities in this book help teenage girls understand how their eating behaviors developed, recognize the relationship between emotions and eating disorders and much more.

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