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| It’s Not About Food gives you the tools and the understanding to break the destructive cycle of bingeing, dieting, and self-starvation. By using the proven techniques developed in the Beyond Hunger workshops, you will be able to transform your relationship not only with food, but also with your body and yourself. These exercises and meditations will help you determine the differences between what your body craves to eat, what your mind thinks you should eat, and what your emotions are driving you to eat. This non-diet approach goes beneath the symptoms of eating disorders and explores the cultural pressures women face, along with the physical, emotional, and spiritual concerns that create the need to overeat or undereat in the first place. Carol Normandi and Laurelee Roark have discovered, through personal experience as well as working with many women, that for the individual with an eating disorder, every unfelt feeling, every unresolved problem, has a way of turning into overeating or controlling food. It’s Not About Food will help you break that cycle by abandoning dieting forever and understanding that the probable reasons for your eating disorder lie much deeper than just what and how you eat every day. When you stop trying to control food and weight, you can start to listen to the wisdom of your body, take care of yourself emotionally, feed your soul, and break free from eating disorders successfully. Praise
For It’s Not About Food: "Women who read this book will be
inspired to throw away their diets and scales and pick up on the nurturing, caring
voice presented in these pages." "…Normandi
and Roark are like patient coaches detaching women from their obsessions
with food, deprogramming societal and family messages about acceptable weight,
offering tools and exercises to transform destructive behaviors into opportunities
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Every
year, desperate parents try to save their daughters from starving themselves to
death. Yet every year, more girls eat less to look like their favorite
supermodels. With this sobering fact in mind, Carol Emery Normandi and Laurelee
Roark developed this book based on their ongoing workshops and the feedback of
hundreds of young women. They look at the behaviors that may lead to eating disorders
and the cultural, emotional, and physical reasons girls obsess about weight and
eating. They go on to offer girls and their parents a map and a method for finding
a realistic and livable balance. Stories and quotations from girls who have struggled
with eating disorders give the book immediacy, and exercises and writing suggestions
steer girls toward a healthy self-image and wholesome eating patterns. That said, this is not a dry book of recriminations, self-flagellations & hopeless stories; rather it is an elegant, lively, informative text book that offers you a lot to occupy your mind & a lot of different ways to look at your life. In Amber's story you learn how compulsive eating can start; you'll see how Bulimia Nervosa took over her mind & took her off on a dangerous detour. Laurelee's story about Anorexia Nervosa tells how it got a hold of her & wrecked her young life. Carol & Laurelee explain both disorders in clear yet clinical descriptions. There are section about boys & eating disorders & for parents who provide the food for the family & how their lifestyles also contribute. Carol & Laurelee
have founded Beyond Hunger, a nonprofit organization, after recovering from their
own eating disorders. Beyond Hunger offers support groups, workshops & education
for adults & teen with eating disorders & body image disturbances. Do
check out my lively eInterview with Carol & Laurelee - I think you'll be amazed! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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