Most teenagers worry about their body and appearance at some point, and some may try to alter their eating in order to change their weight or shape.

If you are spending a lot of time worrying about how you look or what you are eating, it can become overwhelming and have a big impact on your life. The aim of this book is to help you to understand a bit more about these worries, what you can do about them and, most importantly, how you can develop a healthy relationship with your body and with food.

If these worries take hold, there is a risk of developing an eating disorder or becoming depressed. Eating disorders can have a huge and negative impact on your physical health, your emotional wellbeing, your relationships and social life. They can take control of your mind and body, which makes it difficult to feel motivated to recover, and it can be a long and difficult journey to get back on track, so it's better to tackle these worries early on.

Written by clinicians with many years of experience working in specialist eating disorder services for children and adolescents, this book follows an approach called cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), which is a really useful way of helping us to make sense of our experiences and overcome the difficulties that we face. CBT is an evidence-based approach, which means that lots of research has been done to evaluate it and show that it can be helpful.

The book includes help and support on:
- Adolescent development, how we make sense of our experiences, healthy eating and how to look after yourself during the teenage years.
- How you can stop body image and eating difficulties taking hold including ideas for feeling good about yourself, dealing with stress and managing social media. There is a chapter which focuses on issues for boys/young men.
- How to get help from family, friends or professionals if you are struggling. There is also a chapter for parents/carers and families with suggestions on how they can help.

Overcoming for Teenagers is a series to support young people through common mental health issues during adolescence, using scientific techniques that have been proven to work.

Series editors: Associate Professor Polly Waite and Emeritus Professor Peter Cooper

What can you really do in 10 minutes? You could pop to the shops for some milk, watch a YouTube video or pet your cat - and now, with this book, you can improve your body image.

No matter how busy or stressful your day, with 10-minute steps and quick activities, you can better understand and manage your experiences with body image issues and dysmorphia. It includes sections to read, questions to reflect on, and things to try out in your everyday life. The book covers everything from perfectionism, comparison and social media, to body image distortions and diet culture. Using evidence-based therapies such as CBT and ACT, this book will help you take a problem-solving approach to your worries, boost your confidence, and make friends with your body!

You've been in school for most of your life; now, you're beginning further education - and you may not feel fully prepared for all that your new life brings!

Award-winning student mental health expert Dominique Thompson is here to help. This easy-to-read guide is packed with advice and information to help you overcome the most common issues you may face at university, including:

• Roommate and relationship conflicts

• Self-esteem and confidence crises
• Stress, depression and mental health challenges
• Living far from home and feelings of loneliness
• Maintaining good physical health
• Academic pressure and study skills
  

Armed with this book, you'll have all the tools you need to establish a problem-solving mindset, and not only survive your years at university - but thrive.

Shortlisted for the 2024 Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize

A stunning memoir of coming of age and recovering from anorexia in the 2020s

Charlotte Bellows wrote The Definition of Beautiful between the ages of fifteen and seventeen, in the wake of lockdown and in recovery from anorexia. In the tradition of Sylvia Plath in The Bell Jar and Françoise Sagan in Bonjour Tristesse, Bellows writes with deceptively straightforward urgency, pushing through society's constraints on the bodies and minds of girls and women to offer a story both achingly familiar and devastatingly new.

In 2020, fourteen-year-old Charlotte's lifelong drive to achieve 'perfection' distorts into an all-encompassing obsession. Living between the suffocating world of lockdown and an uncanny dreamscape inhabited by competing avatars, Charlotte faces a parade of masked faces in hospital rooms, the aftermath of first love, the erosion of lifelong friendship, and the agony of seeing her illness devastate her family as it threatens to destroy her; as the world reopens, she finds new connections and mentors, new joy, new ways of thinking, new ways to be.

Charlotte Bellows offers a potent fusion of insight and innocence -- a story for those who suffer or have suffered from eating disorders, but, more, a vital coming of age story of a young gay and artistic woman, tugged and throttled by a myriad of pressures, not least from the dark gravity that is the underside of her own creative drive.

Qué te dices ante el espejo? Le dirías lo mismo a una persona a la que quieres?

Qué harías con todo el tiempo que pasas observando tu cuerpo y tu alimentación?

Parece que nunca somos lo suficientemente buenas, que no estamos lo suficientemente delgadas o en forma..., y que nunca comemos lo suficientemente bien. La insatisfacción corporal se aprende, pero también podemos aprender a aceptar nuestro cuerpo. Denisa Praje, psicóloga experta en TCA, nos explica cómo afecta el contexto en el que vivimos sobre la forma de vernos y de tratarnos y cómo podemos cambiar nuestra mirada y nuestra conducta.

Este libro es un bálsamo para todas aquellas personas que tienen pensamientos y emociones desagradables relacionadas con la comida. En él encontrarás preguntas que te ayudarán a explorarte, pautas para mejorar la relación con tu cuerpo y propuestas para llevar un estilo de vida flexible que te permita acercarte a lo que realmente importa.

Tu cuerpo está a tu servicio.
Tu cuerpo es para vivir.

EN ESTE LIBRO APRENDERÁS:

- Entender qué te lleva a estar insatisfecha
- Descubrir tu historia de aprendizajes
- Valorarte más allá de la belleza
- Mejorar la relación con tu cuerpo
- Comprender la relación entre las emociones y la alimentación
- Identificar conductas como la restricción o la compensación
- Regular el autocontrol
- Romper la espiral de atracones
- Disfrutar el deporte de forma sana
- Llevar una alimentación flexible adaptada a tus gustos y necesidades
- Celebrar que eres mucho más que un cuerpo
- Ayudar a personas que puedan estar pasando por un TCA

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

A gentle guide to body acceptance.

What do you say to yourself in front of the mirror? Would you say the same things to someone you love? What would you do with all the time you spend watching your body and your diet?

It often seems like we are never good enough, not thin enough, or fit enough, and that we never eat well enough. Body dissatisfaction is something that is learned, but we can also learn to accept our bodies. Denisa Praje, a psychologist specializing in eating disorders, explains how the context in which we live affects how we see ourselves and how we can change our perspective and behavior.

This book is a solace for anyone with unpleasant thoughts and emotions related to food. In it, you'll find questions to help you explore yourself, guidelines to improve your relationship with your body, and suggestions for leading a flexible lifestyle that allows you to focus on what really matters.

Your body is at your service.
Your body is for living.

IN THIS BOOK, YOU WILL LEARN TO:

- Understand what leads you to be dissatisfied.
- Discover your learning history.
- Value yourself beyond beauty.
- Improve your relationship with your body.
- Understand the relationship between emotions and eating.
- Identify behaviors like restriction and compensation.
- Regulate self-control.
- Break the binging.
- Enjoy sports in a healthy way.
- Follow a flexible diet tailored to your tastes and needs.
- Celebrate that you are much more than a body.
- Help people who may be going through an eating disorder.

Si el feminismo te ha cambiado la vida y ahora eres una persona empoderada, orgullosa de ti misma y de tu cuerpo, este es tu libro.

De lo contrario, puede que estas páginas te cambien la vida.

Mar Armengol, creadora del proyecto fotográfico @ _pelillosalamar_, y otras veinticinco personalidades de todos los ámbitos de la cultura muestran sin pudor, sin filtros y sin complejos sus cuerpos en estas páginas.

Y es que solo hay bellezas incómodas para las mentes cerradas.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

A photographic project that gives voice and visibility to non-normative bodies.

If feminism has changed your life and now you are an empowered person, proud of yourself and your body, this book is for you.

Otherwise, these pages might change your life.

Mar Armengol, creator of the photographic project @pelillosalamar, and twenty-five other personalities from all areas of today's culture show off their bodies in these pages, shamelessly, unfiltered, and without complexes.

Because uncomfortable types of beauties are only for closed minds.

This workbook has everything you need to achieve connected eating, body positivity and balanced exercise. It will help you stay well informed about how bodies change emotionally and physically in the teen years, and why good nutrition is critical for growth and development. It debunks any myths about diets and 'forbidden' foods and also gives you the tools and strategies to avoid potential triggers of disordered eating.

No Weigh A Teen's Guide to Positive Body Image, Food, and Emotional Wisdom will help you develop a lifelong healthy relationship with your food We eat every day, so why not eat with pleasure, joy and happiness?

A new, non-diet approach to adopting healthy eating habits Drawing on the same evidence-based practices introduced in Intuitive Eating, this workbook for teens addresses the ten principles of intuitive eating to help you listen to your body's natural hunger and fullness cues.

Do you struggle with stress eating, overeating, emotional eating, or binge eating? You aren't alone. Sometimes, when we're not feeling so good, food can seem like a great comfort. The problem is that over time, overeating can lead to several physical health problems, as well as depression and lowered self-esteem. So, how can you put a stop to unhealthy eating behaviors before they become ingrained, lifelong habits?

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.

Whether you're a teen, a parent, a clinician, or a certified intuitive eating counselor, this proven-effective workbook is an essential resource.

A deeply emotional graphic memoir of a young woman's struggles with self-esteem and body image issues.

All Marie-Noëlle wants is to be thin and beautiful. She wishes that her thighs were slimmer, that her stomach lay flatter. Maybe then her parents wouldn't make fun of her eating habits at family dinners, the girls at school wouldn't call her ugly, and the boy she likes would ask her out. This all-too-relatable memoir follows Marie-Noëlle from childhood to her twenties, as she navigates what it means to be born into a body that doesn't fall within society's beauty standards.

When, as a young teen, Marie-Noëlle begins a fitness regime in an effort to change her body, her obsession with her weight and size only grows and she begins having suicidal thoughts. Fortunately for Marie-Noëlle, a friend points her in the direction of therapy, and slowly, she begins to realize that she doesn't need the approval of others to feel whole.

Marie-Noëlle Hébert's debut graphic memoir is visually stunning and drawn entirely in graphite pencil, depicting a deeply personal and emotional journey that encourages us to all be ourselves without apology.

Key Text Features
graphic novel
comic style

Have you struggled with a loss of appetite for several months now? Do you remember the last time you ate without thinking about a scale? When was the last time you looked in the mirror without grimacing? I can help you.

This book is dedicated to those suffering with an eating disorder called Anorexia Nervosa. I am writing based on my experience with the disease. The personal accounts within this book can aid in identifying and overcoming this disorder. Too many teen girls walk the halls of school living in their heads and starving their bodies. This book can help you to see the beautiful girl in the mirror, regain your appetite and begin talking about your feelings without fear of judgment.

Twenty years ago, I was caught in the grips of Anorexia Nervosa. The disorder made me feel as though I was cutting myself on the inside. I stood at 5 foot 2 inches, weighted 92 pounds, and wore a size zero in jeans. I will relate to you within this book the ways to beat this eating disorder.

Eating disorders can take their toll on you, your relationships, and your life. I have written this book as a guide for you to find an outlet for your thoughts, coping mechanisms for your stress and a way forward in your daily interactions with family, friends, and peers.

It is important to understand, this disease is not attention seeking, but instead a reaction to overattentive environments. If you read through this book, you will find tips and guides to cope with school, sports, family, and friends. It is not easy being a teenage girl, especially in high school. This guide serves to help navigate the daily pressures young women are under in their everyday lives.

Within 'Cutting Yourself on the Inside', you will discover:

• Ways to improve your self-esteem through self-reflection
• Tips to eat full meals three times a day without feeling guilty
• Open communication with your parents about your feelings
• Improve communication with your siblings about your daily life
• Improve communication with your friends about your true self
• Open your daily schedule to new opportunities with new friends, activities, and groups
• Who you were before people told you who you were

The ability to move forward from external opinions and truly see your value in the mirror instead of the numbers on the scale is what this book is all about. I understand the struggle. I see you and understand you. This book is dedicated to helping you overcome Anorexia Nervosa.

I invite you to read through this guide. You have an opportunity to change your reflection without harming yourself in the process. Take it. Take back control of your life.

Step-by-step - the proven path to recovery from bulimia nervosa

Stringent dieting and making yourself vomit after overeating are common features of bulimia nervosa, as are depression, anxiety and feelings of worthlessness. This illness causes great distress to sufferers and those who care about them, but in recent years there have been real advances in treatment.

In the fourth edition of this sympathetic and highly acclaimed guide, you will find a clear explanation of the disorder and the serious health issues that can result from it as well as learning about the treatments available today. Most importantly, this book offers a step-by-step programme for those who want to tackle their difficulties.
This programme has been found in independent clinical research to be of substantial benefit to people with bulimia nervosa (Psychological Medicine, 2005). This book will also give friends and family a much clearer understanding of the illness and its treatment.

OVERCOMING self-help guides use clinically proven techniques to treat long-standing and disabling conditions, both psychological and physical.

This book is recommended by the national Reading Well scheme for England and Wales, delivered by the Reading Agency and the Society of Chief Librarians with funding from Arts Council England and Wellcome.
www.reading-well.org.uk

Series editor: Emeritus professor Peter Cooper

Have you struggled with believing your body is beautiful? Have you found yourself judging someone else's physical appearance harshly? Do you wonder if it's possible to see the female body like God sees it, with love? You are not alone, Lovely.

Juleeta Harvey is an author, speaker, and podcast host who has asked herself and the young women in her community these very same questions. As a young woman, she struggled with believing lies about what a girl should look like. Her beliefs fueled addictions, which surfaced in a decade-long battle with anorexia, bulimia, and body dysmorphia. But over time, her relationship with Jesus put her on a path toward seeing herself and those around her with love.

She is on a mission to create safe places for young women to gather so that they can engage in compassionate conversations about healthy body image. This four-week study guide invites high school and college aged girls to engage in honest, life-changing conversations about how they see their God-gifted bodies. A portion of Psalm 139 is the foundation for the study, which equips young women to believe their bodies are worthy of love and instrumental in impacting positive change in the world.

About the Author:

Juleeta Harvey serves today's young woman by leading conversations about healthy body image. As the founder of Body Truth and The Body Truth Podcast, she writes content that helps girls see their God-gifted bodies in the light of love. She has spent years speaking with counselors, dieticians, and small groups about how girls are capable of loving their female bodies. She looks forward to sharing what she has learned, with honesty that promotes transparency and growth. Her hope is to equip today's young woman to see the female body with love so that she can thrive -- unburdened by shame and free to live, unabashedly!

Juleeta and her husband, Dave, live in Dallas, Texas, where they attend and serve with Northwest Bible Church. They have five energetic and hilarious boys: Luke, Ethan, Matthew, Isaac, and Isaiah. Outside is where you'll find them often -- hiking, fishing, or camping.

Follow her on Instagram @body_truth or on her website: www.bodytruth.org.

'So much more than a parenting manual - the Grants have thrown out a lifeline' THE TIMES

'The most extraordinary parenting guide of our time' DAILY MAIL

A breakout book on the ever-expanding concept of family

Carrie and David Grant have an extraordinary family story to tell. They have four children, one of whom is adopted, and all have come with a curveball: mental health challenges, neurodivergence, trans non-binary identities, various sexualities, and they are a mixed-race family, too.

It is a reflection of the fact that society is changing faster than most of us can keep up with. The wider concepts of family and community are being deconstructed. There are those who are desperately clinging to the old and those who are desperate for the new to be accepted. How do we hold our families and communities together in unity? How do we create a society where all are included and none are oppressed?

In A Very Modern Family, Carrie and David share their challenges and discoveries of growing and shapeshifting to create an incredible, diverse family and community. With their multi-intersectional family, they share their own mindset changes and insights into how to construct a new, accepting and unified space, while providing a deep dive into real life, frequently encountered situations and pertinent, applicable advice.

A Very Modern Family is an important guide for our times - full of pain, change and hope.