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The Parent's Guide to Eating Disorders shows that effective solutions begin at home and cost little more than a healthy investment of time, effort, and love. Based on exciting new research, it differs from similar books in several key ways. Instead of concentrating on the grim, expensive hospital stays of patients with severe disorders, the authors focus on the family, teaching parents how to examine and understand their family’s approach to food and body-image issues and its effect their child’s behavior. Parents learn to identify an eating disorder early, to establish healthy attitudes toward food at a young age, and to intervene in a nonthreatening, nonjudgmental way. The authors concentrate on teens, the age group most often affected by eating disorders, as well as younger children. Individual chapters cover boys at risk, relapse training, dealing with friends, school, and summer camp, and much more. The book includes an appendix and sections on further reading, organizations and websites, residential and hospital programs, and references.

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This book offers a ladder out of the black hole of food fixations: anorexia, bulimia, and exermania. The author reviews the standard therapies (behavioral, cognitive, psycho-dynamic, family, support groups, medicines), and includes appendices on books and treatment resources. But it is the detailed, heart-rending stories of struggle and triumph--including Schwirzer's own--that lift the heart. Ultimately, the secret of victory is to take sufferers our of their isolation, turning the eyes away from self and fixing them on God.

How women can transform their relationships with food through myths, metaphors & storytelling.
Written in a readable and intimate style, each of the twenty chapters explores a different theme of empowerment and self-discovery. A great gift for someone in recovery! Reading this book is an enlightening experience! Weaving a rich tapestry of multicultural myths, ancient legends, and simple folktales, Anita Johnston teaches women how to free themselves from disordered eating by discovering the metaphors that are hidden in their own life stories. "Storytellers speak in the language of myth and metaphor," Johnston explains. "They tell us a truth that is not literal, but symbolic. If we hear the stories with only the outer ear, they can seem absurd and untrue, but when listened to with the inner ear, they convey a truth that can be understood and absorbed on a deeply personal level.

Andrea Smeltzer had the world at her feet: she was vibrant, talented, strong, and beautiful. But after a one-year struggle with bulimia, Andrea died in her sleep at the age of 19, catapulting her mother, Doris, into a journey of self-discovery and realizations about her daughter and herself. By combining Andrea’s poetry, letters and journal entries, both mother and daughter tell the story together, capturing the bond that connected them. Doris’ honest and unabashed exploration of the emotional issues surrounding her daughter’s development of bulimia provide insight and guidance not only to parents, friends and caregivers, but also to any young person struggling to find their independence

A unique new approach to treating eating disorders Eight million women in the United States suffer from anorexia nervosa and/or bulimia. For these women, the road to recovery is a rocky one. Many succumb to their eating disorders. Life Without Ed offers hope to all those who suffer from these often deadly disorders. For years, author Jennifer Schaefer lived with both anorexia and bulimia. She credits her successful recovery to the technique she learned from her psychologist, Thom Rutledge. This groundbreaking book illustrates Rutledge's technique. As in the author's case, readers are encouraged to think of an eating disorder as if it were a distinct being with a personality of its own. Further, they are encouraged to treat the disorder as a relationship rather than as a condition. Schaefer named her eating disorder Ed; her recovery involved "breaking up" with Ed Shares the points of view of both patient and therapist in this approach to treatment Helps people see the disease as a relationship from which they can distance themselves Techniques to defeat negative thoughts that plague eating disorder patients Prescriptive, supportive, and inspirational, Life Without Ed shows readers how they too can overcome their eating disorders.

Read about this book at mercyministries.org