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Examining the link between eating disorders and the need for intimacy they sometimes mask, the author uses her own experience and the stories of people she has helped in her work and seminars. She looks at the motivation behind bingeing and obsessive dieting, explains how such compulsive behaviour can sabotage loving relationships, and explores the similarities between eating and loving. Geneen Roth is tha author of "Feeding the Hungry Heart" and "Breaking Free from Compulsive Eating".

On 9 April 2021, Britain was shocked by the tragic death of Nikki Grahame. While many will remember Nikki Grahame simply as the warm, lively, good-humoured contestant who stole the show in Big Brother, she was much more than that. On top of bending her talent toward a successful career in presenting and writing after the show ended, her life was also marked by courage in the face of extreme adversity, since Nikki had battled from childhood with a severe case of anorexia nervosa. While her story...

The result of a study that followed hundreds of teen-aged girls for three years, this book reveals the subtleties, the complexities, and the realities of girls’ ideas about their shapes, eating habits, and physical ideals. Nichter uses an engaging narrative style to explore the influence of peers, family, and media on girls’ sense of self.

A yoga approach to dealing with disorded eating patterns--like overeating, food addiction, and stress eating--and the resulting emotional distress they can cause. Yoga philosophy and practice are increasingly being used therapeutically to help people overcome disorded eating patterns—like overeating, food addiction, and stress eating—and the resulting emotional distress they can cause. Sarahjoy Marsh offers a program using yoga to address food-centered behaviors and body image issues. She i...

In everyday life--in relationships, in various institutions, in texts--cultural premises influence and sometimes limit individuals’thoughts, actions, and ideas. Cultural Resistance: Challenging Beliefs About Men, Women, and Therapy analyzes cultural constraints and encourages therapists, individuals, and communities to practice cultural resistance on a daily basis, allowing for the realization of diverse and suppressed knowledges. Cultural Resistance shows general patterns by which some ideas in...

Real-life stories provide encouragement to listeners who suffer from overeating due to stress, anger, boredom, or loneliness, identifying the causes of overeating and offering a plan for losing weight.

Are you addicted to the ‘white stuff’? And are you aware of the dangers in your diet? Sugar, in everything from blatantly indulgent chocolate to seemingly innocent fruit juices, is not something that manufacturers like to shout about, but the truth is it’s everywhere. Sweet treats make us happy while we’re eating them, but they also create insatiable cravings, excess fat and long-term medical conditions such as diabetes and obesity. This book will help raise your awareness of the hidden danger...

Using a colourful magazine-style, this series presents first-hand accounts of hard-hitting topics based on interviews with eight young people. The stories are illustrated with photographs of the interviewees and backed-up with fact panels.

Many of us have a complicated relationship with our body. Maybe you've been made to feel ashamed of your body or like it isn't good enough. Maybe your body is riddled with stress, pain, or the effects of trauma. Maybe you think of your body as an accessory to what you believe you really are--your mind. Maybe your experiences with racism, sexism, ableism, heterosexism, ageism, or sizeism have made you believe your body isn't the right kind of body. Whatever the reason, many of us don't feel at h...

If you are frustrated by unmanageable food cravings, this is the book that can finally help you reduce or eliminate them! In this book, you will learn how to interpret and resolve your cravings for chocolate, crisps, burgers, bread, cheese, ice cream and many other foods. Doctor of psychology and author Doreen Virtue, PhD, will show you that you needn't kill your appetite - instead, you can heal your appetite with her unique internal approach. Virtue shows you that each food you crave correspon...

Imagine a World in which it is easy to find someone to turn to who understands your struggles, identifies with your wounds, and knows how lonely and scary it feels to live inside your skin. In this fantastic brave new world, you would face your eating disorder head on, standing tall and firm with supportive friends by your side as you get better--and stay that way! In Beating Ana, Shannon Cutts opens the door to this world as she introduces you to a whole new way of thinking about and recoverin...

Eating disorders, such as anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa and binge and disordered eating, affect a significant proportion of the general population. They can cause untold suffering to those with the disorder, and those around them, who find themselves at a loss how to help their loved one. For the first time, this unique bundle combines hope and inspiration to those experiencing eating disorders either first-hand or up close. Includes: self-help programmes for the eating disorders and the...