Kategoria BISAC: Self-Help >> Eating Disorders & Body Image

Through the Eyes of an Eating Disorder is an intimate collection of true stories offering an inside look at a powerful, biologically influenced illness as seen through the eyes of 13 women who live with anorexia nervosa, bulimia, and binge eating. Filled with answers to poignant questions, readers struggling with their own eating disorder will find compassion and hope, family members will discover better understanding, and professionals will appreciate the rich spectrum of journeys narrated by women willing to unveil the secrets of an illness that controlled their lives.

Marissa Pendlebury is on a passionately driven mission to empower and inspire us to grow her growing tribe of Compassioneers: individuals who are able to love themselves from the inside out while living compassionately and developing life-long positive relationships with food, mind and body.

As a teenager, Marissa battled anorexia and depression. She felt overwhelmed by having to please others, exhausted by striving to meet society's expectations. Her own courageous recovery, accompanied by years of research into psychology and nutrition, made her realise that achieving health and...

Ann Wooten-Taylor, Esq., is the C.E.O. of Eating as an Act of Worship Ministries. The ministry began as a result of her deliverance from obesity, and she has been teaching others the Christian weight loss principles she learned since 2012. Unlike many Christian weight loss classes, the EAW class is not a forum where individuals come together, say a prayer, and then have a workout session. On the contrary, EAW weight loss courses focus on God's perspective about our body image, our eating habits, and keeping our bodies healthy through the study of His word.

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Food is not our problem. We might be overweight and we might be eating badly. But, seriously, it's not the food's problem.

In this busy world, we're eating more than ever. But we've forgotten how to be in love with food. And we've forgotten how to let it love us. So, let's stop abusing ourselves and the food we eat. Let's take the time to reconnect, value and love our food. And let it love us.

Full of practical steps, this book picks up where the diet industry leaves off. It tells what the food and diet industries won't tell us.
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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 disorder, along with her experience helping others overcome their disordered eating, Lori has created a process that works.

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You know how frustrating it can be when you have tried every diet imaginable, had countless expert opinions and still can't lose weight?

If lasting weight loss were as easy as calories in vs calories out everyone would be skinny

This book contains the missing link for achieving fast, easy and sustainable weight loss that nobody is talking about.

- Condition your mind so that weight loss becomes inevitable

- Build unstoppable motivation and self-confidence

- Overcome self-doubt, self-sabotage and negative self-talk

- Resolve binge eating and food...

From the outside looking in, Elizabeth had the perfect life. She had a family who loved her, numerous friends, and a successful career. No one knew the hurt, pain, and angst she hid inside, struggling to keep herself small so those around her would still like her.

It all came to a head on October 23, 2007, when her parents received a call that she was lying lifeless in the ICU in a hospital in Utah--"You better get out here, your daughter is not going to make it." Fractured: My Journey Back from Death and the Lessons I've Learned Along the Way is the memoir...