Eating Disorders Library

• Improving Your Emotional Health Through Healthier Eating
  Many people do not realize it, but you actually are what you eat. Scientific research shows that eating healthy ...
• Obesity, Genetics, Depression and Weight Loss
  There are a lot of different opinions and strong emotions when it comes to the topic of ...
• Beating Ana: How to Outsmart Your Eating Disorder and Take Your Life Back
  Loneliness, shame, depression: all of these are a part of the life of someone with an eating disorder. If they are unable to confide in anyone, the names Ana (anorexia) and Mia (bulimia) may quickly ...
• Qsymia and Belviq Drugs for Obesity, Weight Loss
  If you're obese and are at the end of your ropes looking for weight loss help, there's good ...
• The Importance of Support for Eating Disorders
  In her first session with me Rose exclaimed emphatically, “No offense to you, but I feel that I should be ...
• [A]Musings of a Spiritual Atheist
  [A]Musings of a Spiritual Atheist by Andrew J. Ackerman is a book about the author's journey from addiction to recovery.  Ackerman, the self-described hard-line "spiritual atheist," uses the book to offer his experience with 12-step ...
• Hope with Eating Disorders: A Self-Help Guide for Parents, Carers and Friends of Sufferers
  Eating disorders are constantly in the news, and have been for some time now. Yet it’s quite astonishing to note how few people truly comprehend the psychological factors involved in them. Many are quick either ...
• Diet Rehab: 28 Days to Finally Stop Craving the Foods That Make You Fat
  It seems that you read or hear about a new diet every other month or so that promises to help you lose weight and keep it off.  Discipline and willpower to stick with the diet ...
• White Elephants
  As I cried, I wanted to believe it was the alcohol that induced Mom’s words.  I had to believe it was the alcohol.  I don’t want them.  The words rang in my ears.  That’s the ...
• Adolescent Tragedies and My Teenager
  Once again I am writing about a terrible tragedy. Fifteen dead children. Fifteen lives ...
• 8 Keys to Recovery From an Eating Disorder
  Babette Rothschild, the Series Editor of 8 Keys, explains in her introduction that the purpose of the 8 Keys series is to provide intelligent, thoughtful help from highly experienced professionals.  In this case, Carolyn Costin ...
• Loud In The House of Myself: Memoir of a Strange Girl
  I found "Loud In The House of Myself: Memoir of a Strange Girl" by Stacy Pershall to be a superbly written, first-person account of a young girl's struggle with borderline personality disorder (BPD) and bipolar ...
• Brave Girl Eating: A Family’s Struggle with Anorexia
  Between three and six percent of all teens struggle with some type of eating disorder, be it bulimia, binge eating, or anorexia. Because these illnesses involve eating, they seem to take a blow at family ...
• Fat People
  For his book Fat People, Bill Schubart has created and gathered a collection of stories that will make you rethink your relationship with food. Schubart is smart, sensitive and unnervingly keen at noticing details.  The ...
• 10 Ways Loving a Dog Can Teach Us to Love Our Bodies
  Worried parents often come to my psychotherapy office, wondering how to teach their children to have ...
• Restoring Our Bodies, Reclaiming Our Lives: Recovery from Eating Disorders
  Aimee Liu writes with a gentleness and an understanding that only someone who has been through the painful process of recovery can truly possess: Her 1979 memoir, Solitaire, was the first discussion of anorexia nervosa ...
• Eating Disorders Spike Among Middle-Aged and Older Women
  When you hear the term, eating disorder, many people may typically think of a perfectionistic adolescent girl heavily into ...
• Mindless Eating
  We make more than 200 food-related decisions per day. We are unaware of 90 percent of them. In Mindless Eating (2006), Brian Wansink, PhD takes an in-depth look at food psychology and how ...
• Is Trying To Change an Addictive Habit Worth It?
  Drugs. Alcohol. Food. Exercise. Shopping. Gambling. Attempts to change or fix other people. Trying to make more ...
• Parents Important in the Prevention, Awareness of Eating Disorders
  Eating disorders are now epidemic in the United States. Approximately 11 million women and girls struggle ...
• Challenging Body Distortions Through the Eyes of the Body
  Body image is the picture in our mind's eye of how we look to ourselves. It reflects our beliefs about how we think others perceive us ...
• Food, The Good Girl’s Drug: How to Stop Using Food to Control Your Feelings
  Binge eating disorder (BED) is a serious eating disorder that affects about 2.8 percent of Americans, according to the National Institute of Mental Health. Yet, it’s vastly misunderstood, and books on BED are few and far ...
• 9 Psychologist-Approved Must-Reads on Mental Health
  Psychologists are a discerning bunch when it comes to books. Because of their insider’s view of mental ...
• Making the Most of Your Whole Self: Being an Embodied Therapist
  Since human beings communicate through their bodies long before they learn to talk, the language of ...
• Beautiful You: A Daily Guide to Radical Self Acceptance
  Humans are obsessed with body image.  The media says we should look a certain way, else we be outcast and forgotten.  Although men do feel the need to have an attractive appearance, women are more ...