Eating Disorders Psychology

The truth is: There is a difference between emotional hunger and normal hunger. Emotional hunger is when you find yourself craving food when you’re feeling down or otherwise upset. Many people have different comfort foods, but it all falls under the same umbrella of emotional eating. It is common practice among people to race to grab their comfort food many times a week just to suppress their internal struggles and soothe their life problems.

Say stop to never-ending, useless fad diets. Say stop to lack of energy. Say stop to lack of motivation in pursuing the body of your dreams. Say no to the risk of developing obesity, diabetes, heart diseases, and mental illnesses. Say yes to this comprehensive guide with which you’ll get rid of these troubles!

The Antianxiety Food Solution presents effective natural treatments and dietary changes that can significantly reduce anxiety symptoms and improve mood. Author Trudy Scott is a certified nutritionist who successfully treated her own anxiety and founder of www.everywomanover29.com.

Based on various research projects, this audiobook helps you see the best ways to stop binge eating. For some people, it’s an actual disorder. For others, it’s a bad routine they got into and want to break through. Why do people binge eat? What causes them to reach for unhealthy snacks, aside from the fact that they are at least affordable and tasty? Is there more involved in such an addiction? Find out why so many people are confronted with their binge eating habits. Learn why it is possible to stop, and even more so, exactly how to do it.

Robyn Cruze, a mental health advocate who found recovery from an eating disorder, has teamed up with therapist and friend Espra Andrus to provide expert guidance for those seeking eating disorder recovery, their loved ones, and treatment professionals. This revised edition offers new insights and stories, updated approaches to nutrition, and answers to such pressing questions within the eating disorder community as: Does the word "recovered" have a place in the recovery process? What about notions of "good," "bad," "health," and "unhealthy" foods?

One in five women suffer from eating disorders. While this issue is primarily associated with teenage girls, doctors report that a growing number of women are also developing these disorders later in life or have hidden these problems for years. For women in their thirties, forties, fifties, and beyond, issues of loss from divorce, death, empty nest syndrome, marriage, and career pressures can trigger an eating disorder. Psychotherapist Joanna Poppink offers a comprehensive and effective recovery program for women with eating disorders, based on her thirty-year professional practice.

Low mood and depression are endemic, and on the increase, and the recession has further fuelled the need for the practical, down-to-earth advice provided in The Feel Good Factor. Written and adapted for audio by leading nutrition expert and mental-health specialist Patrick Holford, it reveals highly effective methods to make a difference to how you feel - without the need for medical drugs.

Is your child a picky eater? Do they insist on having the same foods served over and over again? For many kids, picky eating is a sensory issue—whether it's the smell, taste, texture, or appearance of food. So, how can you help your child overcome these sensory sensitivities and ensure that they get the nourishment they need? Written by a pediatric occupational therapist with a specialty certification in feeding, eating, and swallowing, Raising Adventurous Eaters offers eight evidence-based sensory strategies to help kids foster a healthy relationship with food.

If you’ve ever rearranged your whole life to avoid getting sick—you’re not alone. For years, Jess Smith lived in the shadow of emetophobia—the all-consuming fear of vomiting. It dictated what she ate, where she went, and how she showed up in the world. It shaped her relationships, her motherhood journey, and even her sense of identity. From a frightened five-year-old avoiding school dinners, to a young mother lining the room with towels just in case, Jess carried a secret terror that no one seemed to understand.

Eating disorders are serious conditions that can be hard to treat; however, the chances of overcoming an eating disorder increase when exposure therapy is used as part of the overall treatment strategy. Exposure therapy involves confronting (rather than avoiding) challenging scenarios that evoke distress, and though this technique has typically been used mainly by psychotherapists, people struggling with eating disorders can use it on their own to reduce troubling eating behaviors.

This story is not that of numbers on a scale, but of invisible struggles, of silent victories and defeats that only the echo of a soul can measure, an exploration of the depths where food, emotions, and the ardent desire for peace reside.

In Appetites, best-selling author Geneen Roth looks beyond her 15 years of pioneering work with women, food, and body image to ask the greatest of questions: What truly nourishes the human spirit? Through the lens of her own life experience, Roth examines the core of spirituality and the feelings and behaviors that can mask it. What happens when deep inner need is answered only with external "satisfaction"?

Driven by the pursuit of perfection and the desire to truly be loved and accepted, Cynthia battled an eating disorder for thirteen long years. “Starving, Bingeing, Purging” is her raw, authentic story, told firsthand; a story not just of suffering, but of resilience, victory, and hope against all odds. In this book, Cynthia openly explores the complex issues of anorexia, bulimia, purging, and food addiction, and shares the intimate details of her journey to reclaim her life.

Everything you believe about how to lose weight is wrong. Weight gain and obesity are driven by hormones in everyone and only by understanding the effects of insulin and insulin resistance can achieve lasting weight loss. With much more compassionate, thoughtful guide on satisfying, healthy living, this valuable resolution also includes how the philosophy of intuitive eating can be a safe and effective model on the path to recovery from an eating disorder.

This is the story of a beautiful, young woman — a talented athlete and musician, raised in a loving home, surrounded by friends — undermined by a ruthless inner voice that claimed her body and her spirit. Emilee: The Story of a Girl and Her Family Hijacked by Anorexia reveals the cracks in our health care system, the institutions we are taught to trust, as well as our own prejudices and misinformation about eating disorders, mental illness, and addiction.

Are you tired of being “in recovery” but not fully free? Of trying to recover “perfectly” only to feel like a failure every time? Of believing the eating disorder is just something you’ll have to “manage” forever? In How to Get Out of Quasi Recovery, Livia Sara challenges the traditional recovery narrative and offers a radical new perspective: What if recovery itself is holding you back? Through profound insights and raw honesty, she reveals how the concept of “recovery” can keep you stuck in that frustrating middle ground between your eating disorder and true freedom.

Does fear of weight gain and all the options available overwhelm you, keeping you stuck where you’re at? Wouldn’t it be great if you had access to a recovery resource that works and left you feeling confident with how to get there and stay well? Freed & Fierce has got you covered! This comprehensive book is your solution to sustainable recovery, with a structured system to help you through each phase of recovery, step by step.

As a teenager in the 1990s, Katie Brown was one of climbing's first "comp kids"—a young natural who, along with her peers, redefined the image of a strong and successful climber. After climbing for less than two years, Brown won her first junior national title. The next year she became the Junior World Champion at age fourteen in Laval, France. In 1996 she won both the Rock Master—a prestigious international contest in Arco, Italy—and the esteemed X-Games. From 1996 on, Brown won every US Adult National that she entered, as well as a World Cup Title in France in 1999.

Cognitive behavioral therapy is a scientifically proven technique that helps you to adjust your thinking and behaviors so that you can break out of negative loops and move forward in a much more positive manner. It teaches you how you can adjust your thinking and helps you to differentiate between negative thoughts that are helpful and those that are not.

A no-holds-barred account of folk legend Judy Collins's harrowing struggle with compulsive overeating and of the journey that led her to a solution.