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The Parent's Guide to Eating Disorders: Supporting Self-Esteem, Healthy Eating, and Positive Body Image at ...
Marcia Herrin, Nancy Matsumoto

Gurze Books, 2007

A valuable resource for parents
This is a comprehensive and well-written book that will help parents navigate a vast amount of complex information about eating disorders. It clearly explains the various eating disorders and provides concrete information about treatment, about supporting children at ...
  
  











  



  
Father Hunger: Fathers, Daughters, and the Pursuit of Thinness
Ph.D., Margo Maine

Gurze Books, 2004

Fathers are the Core Behind a Woman's Self-Empowerment
This is a brilliant book on the connection between a father's relationship with his daughter and the manifestation of her body image into adulthood. Time and time again it has been proven that the absence of a loving emotionally healthy and nurturing relationship with ...
  
  











  



  
Anatomy of a Food Addiction: The Brain Chemistry of Overeating: An Effective Program to Overcome Compulsive ...
Anne Katherine

Gurze Books, 1996

Anatomy of a Food Addiction
If you want to understand why your eating habits are out of control, this is the book which explains it! This book has really helped me to understand why I am so addicted to sugar and flour, and explains how one needs to abstain from these foods. I still have to rely ...
  
  











  



  
The Rules of "Normal" Eating: A Commonsense Approach for Dieters, Overeaters, Undereaters, Emotional Eaters, ...
Karen R. Koenig

Gurze Books, 2005

Hope for Those Wanting to be a Normal Eating
I found this book to be extremely helpful in the process of overcoming a long term eating disorder. Having been both anorexic and overweight, this book has offered me hope in teaching me to read my bodie's clues and to begin to trust them. I appreciate that while the ...
  
  











  



  
Preventing Childhood Eating Problems: A Practical, Positive Approach to Raising Kids Free of Food and Weight ...
Jane Hirschmann, Lela Zaphiropoulos

Gurze Books, 1993

This is a gem!
This is a great book. The theory that this book encourages is sometimes called *intuitive eating*. I have introduced this method of eating to my family,and I already see wonderful results. It is empowering for our children to learn to listen to their bodies. By ...
  
  











  



  
The Food and Feelings Workbook: A Full Course Meal on Emotional Health
Karen R. Koenig

Gurze Books, 2007

Amazing workbook-great for everyone
Cant fully express how much this workbook helped my daughter (and me!). From an ED point of view, it's great: doesn't allow her to "feed" into ED behaviors. It's great at getting in touch with feelings surrounding food, and daughter has had more success after working ...
  
  











  



  
Big Fat Lies: The Truth about Your Weight and Your Health
Glenn A. Gaesser

Gurze Books, 2002

Could be the most important book you read this year.
Glenn Gaesser, Big Fat Lies (Gurze, 2002) Do yourself a favor-- find this book and read it as soon as possible. The first two sections of this book show a study in selective reasoning by the medical establishment. Gaesser provides a mountain of evidence that all ...
  
  











  



  
The Don't Diet, Live-It! Workbook: Healing Food, Weight and Body Issues
Andrea LoBue, Marsea Marcus

Gurze Books, 1999

Life-changing book
Every woman I know would benefit from reading this book. The book is written by two therapists and focuses on the role of food and eating in our lives. I used this book while attending a weekly meeting with other women interested in the topic. We read through a ...
  
  











  



  
Eating in the Light of the Moon: How Women Can Transform Their Relationship with Food Through Myths, ...
Anita A. Johnston PhD.

Gurze Books, 2000

Unique approach to eating disorders
Reading this book has been wonderful for me. It provides survival tools in the form of stories and metaphors so they are easy to remember and call on when in distress. It separates weight from the issue, and suggests a more holistic and psychological approach toward ...
  
  











  



  
Bulimia: A Guide to Recovery
Lindsey Hall, Leigh Cohn

Gurze Books, 1999

A blessing
I have been battling this horrible disease for almost a year now. I am lucky to have sought help a lot quicker than others, and I began reading this book the day I didn't purge for the first time in 3 months. I am on day 3 of no purging right now, and when ever I get ...
  
  











  



  
Anorexia Nervosa: A Guide to Recovery
Lindsey Hall, Monika Ostroff

Gurze Books, 1998

Very Effective Guidance for Those Struggling with Anorexia
Hall advises, "The first step in recovery from anorexia is simply to choose life." Echoing that decision in her own epiphany, Ostroff observes that women she knew who had recovered had in common that "they accepted who they were. They knew how to herald their ...
  
  











  



  
Bodylove: Learning to Like Our Looks and Ourselves -- A Practical Guide for Women
Rita Freedman

Gurze Books, 2002

Right to Like My Looks
In Bodylove, Dr. Freedman most astutely points out all that is right with our looks, which, as women, is the antithesis of what we internalize via media advertizing. The need to get us to invest in a negative self image is directly correlated to their need to get us to ...
  
  











  



  
This Mean Disease: Growing Up in the Shadow of My Mother's Anorexia Nervosa
Daniel Becker

Gurze Books, 2005

Recounts the starvation disease's impact not just on his mother, but on his entire family
This memoir of author Daniel Becker's mother, a survivor of anorexia nervosa, recounts the starvation disease's impact not just on his mother, but on his entire family. Throughout his childhood his mother was obsessed with food and the family secret of his mother's ...
  
  











  



  
Body Wars
Margo Maine

Gurze Books, 1999

READ THIS BOOK RIGHT NOW!
For yourself, for your children, for the women and girls in your life. Read this book! It was like having the wool pulled from eyes. I can finally see the lies for what they were. I was angry about these "ideals" for so long and the pressure to get thinner. Now I ...
  
  











  



  
Dear Kids of Alcoholics . . .
Lindsey Hall, Leigh Cohn

Gurze Books, 1993

a great resource for kids with an alcoholic parent
I ordered this book for my 11 year old son, whose dad is a recovering alcoholic. The book is written from the point of view of a boy about my son's age, so he could really recognize a lot of his own experiences and emotions in the book. It made him realize that there ...
  
  











  



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