Discover how to NEVER have a bad hair day again!

Embark on a transformative journey with McKenna Reitz, who transformed her life with alopecia into a powerful message of empowerment and advocacy, uncovering the resilience needed to overcome life's hurdles. Through personal and professional experiences, McKenna shares invaluable lessons on:

Turning challenges into opportunitiesEmbracing vulnerability as your greatest strengthLeading with empathy and authenticityBalancing multiple roles of a professional, spouse, and parent without compromising personal fulfillmentFinding empowerment through adversity

McKenna Reitz, TED speaker and resilience expert, inspires through her journey with alopecia. This award-winning teacher and coach's story, featured in Forbes and Good Morning America, will empower you to embrace your challenges and uncover your inner strength.

Daily readings for compulsive overeaters who seek to understand the role of food in their lives, supporting a life of physical, emotional, and spiritual balance.

Food for Thought offers wise and comforting words for compulsive overeaters who seek to understand the role of food in their lives. Each day's reading in this best-selling classic supports a life of physical, emotional, and spiritual balance.

Read daily by millions, Hazelden meditation books have set the standard for quality and popularity. Like all the Hazelden meditation favorites, Food for Thought provides enduring wisdom, reassurance, and strength.

From the time we are born, we are inundated with messages about our bodies--what we should eat, how we should look, and how we should move to achieve certain standards. The pressure to conform is higher for those who don't fit into what society values: youth, thinness, whiteness, fitness, health, and able-bodiedness.

But what if you could let go of the chronic shame, judgment, and self-loathing you hold about food and your body? What if you no longer needed the latest diet, cleanse, or wellness plan to feel better about yourself? What if you could free yourself of all these burdens?

These are the answers you will find inside Unburdened Eating. Written through the lens of Internal Family Systems (IFS), this book offers a sustainable path to heal your relationships with food and your body. Based on Dr. Jeanne Catanzaro's 25+ years working with trauma and eating issues, and informed by the insights of leading voices in the growing field of body liberation, this book will allow you to:

• Heal the critical and diet-minded parts of yourself
• Stop trying to fix parts of yourself and your body that are unacceptable or less desirable
• Trust yourself to connect to your body with compassion and care
• Become more resistant to societal messages about what it means to be healthy and attractive

It is possible to accept yourself as you are and relax into a more compassionate, trusting relationship with food and your body. And that healing resource lies within you.

Is stress and worry about food and your body taking the joy out of eating?

Based on the authors' groundbreaking and game-changing book, Intuitive Eating, this fully revised second edition of The Intuitive Eating Workbook shows you how to transform your relationship with food and change your life for the better.

In this updated edition you will find a comprehensive, evidence-based approach to help you move beyond diet culture, cultivate and honor your hunger and fullness cues, and truly enjoy food again. Based on the ten principles of Intuitive Eating, this workbook encourages you to trust your inner wisdom about eating and develop a healthy relationship with food, mind, and body.

This workbook provides new content on rejecting diet culture, shines a light on the connection between intuitive eating and social justice, and offers a new way of looking at food and mealtime. The compassionate approach in this workbook encourages you to align and connect with your natural hunger and satiety signals, find more satisfaction and pleasure in eating, develop a peaceful relationship with your body, and--most importantly--stop feeling distressed around food!

You were born with all the wisdom you need to eat intuitively. This book will help you reconnect with that wisdom and ultimately change your life--one bite at a time.

If you're ready to make lasting changes when it comes to your body and your life, BE-Friend Yourself can help you finally find the freedom and peace you truly deserve. - Marc David: Founder of the Institute for the Psychology of Eating, and author of Nourishing Wisdom and The Slow Down Diet

In BE-Friend Yourself: Finding Freedom with Food and Peace with Your Body, author Marla Mervis-Hartmann invites you to resoundingly answer, Yes!

As the creator of the program, Love Your Body, Love Yourself, Marla draws upon her two decades of expertise as a body image and food freedom expert and healer to empower you. With a mission to silence the relentless noise of the diet industry, Marla guides you on a journey to rediscover yourself.

Discover Your Yes!

Through chapters on intuitive eating, embracing movement as a tribute to your body, exploring sensuality and spirituality, and becoming your own best friend, BE-Friend Yourself unveils the path to stepping out of the mental mire and into unshakable confidence and clarity.

Healing Emotional Connections with Your Body and Food

Body image and food challenges often conceal deeper emotional wounds. BE-Friend Yourself compassionately address the discomfort within, even when you want to escape. Discover the path to healing your relationship with your body and food by slowing down, feeling, and breathing-especially when activated.

Transforming from Opponent to Ally

BE-Friend Yourself challenges the paradox of living in opposition to the joy of food and the wonder of our bodies. Imagine the ease of being consistently kind to yourself!

Embrace the Art of Self-Love

BE-Friend Yourself teaches this art along with embracing your life by feeling more deeply, grieving more intentionally, and celebrating your body-for how it is, no matter where you are in your journey.

Ready to Say Yes! to Yourself?

Dive into BE-Friend Yourself and embark on a life-changing adventure towards loving your body, achieving freedom with food, and finding peace within.

If thoughts and feelings were truth, they would be called facts. In the pages of this fable and companion memoir, we learn about truth and the simple way we can transcend the lie of unworthiness. Imagined unworthiness shows up as a tyranny of thoughts and feelings that cause psychological suffering.

Eleven-year-old Gem struggles with looping thoughts and feelings of self-hate because of her body weight. She believes she is unworthy of love. A wise woman comes into young Gem's life and demonstrates that her looping, hurtful, repetitive thoughts are untrue. When Gem moves her attention away from her habitual looping patterns, she finds her true 'I, ' a deeper part of herself that is free. The true 'I' is not tied to thoughts and feelings, or the past or future. It is a presence that is available in each person.

Rosalyn Rourke has been all three characters in the fable and all three in the memoir companion: the judgmental mother, the hurt daughter and the wise woman. Even with a successful, decades-long psychotherapy practice and credentials as an eating disorder expert and trauma specialist, Rosalyn struggled with worry and judgment about her daughter, Melissa's, weight. The same protocol Gem discovers in the fable helped Rosalyn transcend compulsive worry and judgment about Melissa's weight and later helped her transmute grief after Melissa's unexpected death. When Wisdom Arrives in our lives, we discover how imagined unworthiness can transform into the knowledge of what we are in truth.

Now in paperback. A holistic and powerful framework for accepting and liberating our bodies, and ourselves.

Essential reading for anyone who has struggled to feel at home in their body or to conform their body to external standards.
--Savala Nolan, author of Don't Let It Get You Down

Have you ever felt uncomfortable or not at home in your body? In this book, the founders of Body Trust, therapist Hilary Kinavey and dietitian Dana Sturtevant, invite readers to break free from the status quo and reject a culture that has taken advantage and profited from trauma, stigma, and disembodiment, and reclaim and embrace their bodies. Informed by the personal body stories of the hundreds of people they have worked with, Reclaiming Body Trust delineates an intersectional, social justice-orientated path to healing in three phases: The Rupture, The Reckoning, and The Reclamation. Throughout, readers will be anchored by the authors' revolutionary Body Trust framework to discover a pathway out of a rigid, mechanistic way of thinking about the body and into a more authentic, sustainable way to occupy and nurture our bodies.

This book will help moms teach their 3 to 10-year-old daughters to value and respect their bodies from the start.

Girls' body image begins to develop very early in life, and many girls show body image concerns by middle childhood. As the primary influence on how girls feel about their bodies, mothers are in an ideal position to support their daughters' healthy body image development. Research shows that when a mother has a healthy body image, her daughter is much more likely to value and respect her own body.

In this book, psychologists Janet Boseovski and Ashleigh Gallagher begin by prompting readers to reflect on their relationships with their own bodies. Science-backed information and activities help facilitate reader insight into their own tendencies toward perfectionism and social comparison, as well as their reservoirs of self-compassion, self-esteem, and other factors related to healthy body image. Armed with this new self-awareness, moms can commit to modeling healthy thoughts, feelings, and behaviors for their growing daughters.

The authors then explain how key developmental considerations in early, middle, and late childhood relate to body image and show how moms can guide their girls through each phase of childhood in the context of peer, media, and other cultural influences. With scientific knowledge and intentional, health-focused behaviors, moms can help their daughters develop a self-image that is not tied to physical appearance, learn to accept their bodies despite imperfections, and resist harmful cultural messages about their bodies.

Includes a full appendix of activities written and compiled by the authors, with Julianne Peebles.

A program proven to heal our relationship with food and our bodies from New York Times bestselling author of Unwinding Anxiety.

Sometimes it feels as if there are as many ways to struggle with food as there are foods to eat. Craving, habit, emotions, boredom, stress, anxiety, or just the simple fact that a box of donuts seems to be omnipresent in the break room (free food!) can lead to feeling out of control around food. While anxiety feels like something that happens to us, the pull of food seems like something we should be able to handle. After all, we have to eat! But it's not that simple. The result of this constant struggle--and then giving in or giving up--is a toxic cocktail of shame and self-judgment that makes it feel like it is impossible to change our behavior.

The Hunger Habit is based on Judson Brewer's deeply researched plan proven to help us understand what is going on in our brains so that we can heal the guilt and frustration we experience around eating. This is not a diet book pretending not to be a diet book. The step-by-step program focuses on training our brains to tap into awareness to change our relationship with food and eating--shifting it from fighting with ourselves to befriending our minds and bodies. There is no willpower, calorie-counting, or restricted eating. Setbacks are a good thing! The key is to learn how to work with our brains rather than resisting our impulses, and to adopt an attitude of self-kindness rather than self-judgment.

Grounded in cutting-edge neuroscience and Brewer's several decades of clinical practice as a psychiatrist, The Hunger Habit is both accessible and compassionate. It will finally help you break out of food jail and reclaim your life.

The author of the popular Food for Thought daily meditation book takes a fresh, in-depth look at the Twelve Steps of Overeaters Anonymous.

Each chapter carefully examines and interprets each of the individual Steps.

Eating Disorders Anonymous: The Story of How We Recovered from Our Eating Disorders presents the accumulated experience, strength, and hope of many who have followed a Twelve-Step approach to recover from their eating disorders. Eating Disorders Anonymous (EDA), founded by sober members of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), have produced a work that emulates the Big Book in style and substance. EDA respects the pioneering work of AA while expanding its Twelve-Step message of hope to include those who are religious or seek a spiritual solution, and for those who are not and may be more comfortable substituting higher purpose for the traditional Higher Power. Further, the EDA approach embraces the development and maintenance of balance and perspective, rather than abstinence, as the goal of recovery.

Initial chapters provide clear directions on how to establish a foothold in recovery by offering one of the founder's story of hope, and collective voices tell why EDA is suitable for readers with any type of problem eating, including: anorexia nervosa, bulimia, binge eating, emotional eating, and orthorexia. The text then explains how to use the Twelve Steps to develop a durable and resilient way of thinking and acting that is free of eating disordered thoughts and behaviors, including how to pay it forward so that others might have hope of recovery.

In the second half of the text, individual contributors share their experiences, describing what it was like to have an eating disorder, what happened that enabled them to make a start in recovery, and what it is like to be in recovery. Like the Big Book, these stories are in three sections: Pioneers of EDA, They Stopped in Time, and They Lost Nearly All.

Readers using the Twelve Steps to recover from other issues will find the process consistent and reinforcing of their experiences, yet the EDA approach offers novel ideas and specific guidance for those struggling with food, weight and body image issues. Letters of support from three, highly-regarded medical professionals and two, well-known recovery advocates offer reassurance that EDA's approach is consistent with that supported by medical research and standards in the field of eating disorders treatment.

Intended as standard reading for members who participate in EDA groups throughout the world, this book is accessible and appropriate for anyone who wants to recover from an eating disorder or from issues related to food, weight, and body image.

Cómo sería empezar a disfrutar de tu cuerpo sin importar el tamaño, la forma, la edad o el estado físico?

No es hora de dejar los patrones y hábitos que te mantienen atorado con tu cuerpo?

Es tu cuerpo una facilidad o una carga? Esta es una perspectiva muy diferente sobre los cuerpos y tu capacidad para cambiar el tuyo. Todo podría ser más fácil de lo que jamás supiste que era posible!

El cuerpo correcto para ti es un libro que te inspirará y te mostrará una forma diferente de crear el cuerpo que realmente deseas.

Cuál es la contribución de tu cuerpo para ti y para tu vida?

Cualquier área de tu vida que no sea facilidad, gozo y gloria, es donde tienes una falta de conciencia o entendimiento.

Written by an expert with over twenty years of experience in the field of eating disorders, this book will give you the facts in a friendly and easy to read format. Get to know what you are dealing with and how it is taking a toll on your body and quality of life. Get rid of the myths diet culture has had you believe. Find out where to go and who to turn to for expert and compassionate care, maximizing your potential for recovery.

On the other hand, you might be a treatment provider looking for sound knowledge regarding eating disorder screening tools, lab tests, online resources, and how to put together the most effective treatment team. If that is the case, then this book is for you.

The journey with an eating disorder can seem like a dark maze with no way out. Allow the knowledge in this book to light the path. Recovery is possible with the right information, guidance, and treatment intervention.

Si tu adolescente tiene un trastorno de la conducta alimentaria -como anorexia, bulimia o comer en exceso- podr as sentirte impotente, preocupado e inseguro sobre la mejor manera de brindarle tu apoyo. Es por eso que necesitas estrategias reales y efectivamente comprobadas que puedas usar de inmediato. Ya sea que las pongas en pr ctica simult neamente con un tratamiento o por s solas, este libro ofrece un enfoque basado en evidencias que puedes usar ahora mismo para ayudar a tu adolescente a tomar decisiones saludables y mantenerse sano en cuerpo y mente. Cuando tu adolescente tiene un trastorno de la conducta alimentaria te empoderar para ayudar a tu adolescente con una propuesta nica del tratamiento basado en la familia (FBT, por sus siglas en ingl s). Con esta gu a, aprender s a supervisar respetuosa y afectuosamente la rehabilitaci n nutricional de tu adolescente, incluyendo ayuda para normalizar los comportamientos alimentarios, manejo de las comidas, expansi n de la flexibilidad alimentaria, ense anza de h bitos alimentarios independientes e intuitivos, y uso de estrategias de afrontamiento y habilidades de recuperaci n para prevenir una reca da. Adem s de ayudar a padres y cuidadores, este libro es un maravilloso recurso para profesionales de la salud mental, maestros, consejeros y entrenadores que trabajan con padres y adolescentes con trastornos alimentarios. Describe claramente los principios del FBT y el proceso de involucrar a los padres para que colaboren activamente en el tratamiento. Como padre, alimentar a tu hijo es un acto fundamental de amor, as ha sido desde el principio Sin embargo, cuando un ni o es afectado por un trastorno de la conducta alimentaria, los padres a menudo pierden la confianza en la realizaci n de esta tarea b sica. Esta gu a compasiva te ayudar a ganar la confianza necesaria para nutrir a tu hijo y ayudarlo a sanar

Life can be hard-so why not use whatever avenues you can to make it easier? Overindulging in drugs and alcohol only makes problems worse, but what could be wrong with using video games, gambling, comfort food, social media, romance, or sex to add some comfort to your life? Unfortunately, while engaging in comforting behaviors can initially seem less dangerous and more socially acceptable than smoking or drinking too much alcohol, the chemistry of addiction is not wholly tied to a substance, but rather to the brain's response. This leads some people to develop diseases called behavioral addictions-which work just like other addictions, but without any substance involved.

Serenity is your go-to manual for understanding and overcoming behavioral addictions. It answers many questions you may have about behavioral addiction:

• How can you recognize and understand behavioral addictions?
• How do people develop behavioral addictions?
• When it comes to activities like engaging with social media, gaming, working, or dieting, how much is too much?
• How can someone become addicted to something everybody does?
• How can you know if you're helping or enabling your addicted loved one?
• Are you an addict yourself-and if so, how can you recover?

In this book, renowned psychotherapist Sanja Rozman will answer these questions and help you create your own personal, state-of-the-art recovery plan . Her program has helped her clients discover the reasoning behind their destructive behaviors, work through them, and establish new, healthier patterns in their lives and relationships. Whether you are suffering yourself or are a family member, teacher, or good friend of an addict, you will learn everything you need to know about how to recognize, understand, and cope with behavioral addictions. You can't just stop them-but you can work through the problem. It works if you work it!

Eating can be a source of great pleasure--or deep distress. If you've picked up this book, chances are you're looking for tools to transform your relationship with food. 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. You will learn to:

*Identify your emotional triggers.
*Cope with painful or uncomfortable feelings in new and healthier ways.
*Gain awareness of urges and cravings without acting on them.
*Break free from self-judgment and other traps.
*Practice specially tailored mindfulness techniques.
*Make meaningful behavior changes, one doable step at a time.

Vivid examples and stories help you build each DBT skill. Carefully crafted practical tools (you can download and print additional copies as needed) let you track your progress and fit the program to your own needs. Finally, freedom from out-of-control eating--and a happier future--are in sight.

Mental health professionals, see also the related treatment manual, Dialectical Behavior Therapy for Binge Eating and Bulimia, by Debra L. Safer, Christy F. Telch, and Eunice Y. Chen.

This instructive and engaging guide provides the latest thinking, compassionate counsel, and step-by-step assistance to individuals who suffer from compulsive eating behaviors.

With more than half a million copies sold, Fat is a Family Affair is recognized as the benchmark text on family dynamics and eating disorders. Newly updated with current research, perspectives, and stories, this instructive and engaging guide provides the latest thinking, compassionate counsel, and step-by-step assistance to individuals who suffer from compulsive eating behaviors--specifically overeating and undereating. Judi Hollis is eminently qualified to offer guidance on this topic, having counseled families for more than 30 years and pioneered the nation's first Twelve-Step eating disorders treatment program.

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A searing critique of modern wellness culture and how it stands in the way of true well-being that will change the way you think about your health--in all the best ways. (Casey Gueren)

It's not a diet, it's a lifestyle. You've probably heard this phrase from any number of people in the wellness space. But as Christy Harrison reveals in her latest book, wellness culture promotes a standard of health that is often both unattainable and deeply harmful.

Many people with chronic illness understandably feel dismissed or abandoned by the healthcare system and find solace in alternative medicine, as Harrison once did. Yet the wellness industry promotes practices that often cause even more damage than the conventional approaches they're meant to replace. From the lack of pre-market safety testing on herbal and dietary supplements, to the unfounded claims made by many wellness influencers and functional-medicine providers, to the social-media algorithms driving users down rabbit holes of wellness mis- and disinformation, it can often feel like no one is looking out for us in the face of the $4.4 trillion global wellness industry.

The Wellness Trap delves into the persistent, systemic problems with that industry, offering insight into its troubling pattern of cultural appropriation and its destructive views on mental health, and shedding light on how a growing distrust of conventional medicine has led ordinary people to turn their backs on science. Weaving together history, memoir, reporting, and practical advice, Harrison illuminates the harms of wellness culture while re-imagining our society's relationship with well-being.