Eating Disorder Recovery

For seven years, Shannon Kopp battled the silent, horrific, and all-too-common disease of bulimia. Then, at 24, she got a job working at the San Diego Humane Society and SPCA, where in caring for shelter dogs, she found the inspiration to heal and the courage to forgive herself. With the help of some extraordinary homeless animals, Shannon realized that her suffering was the birthplace of something beautiful. Compassion.

Positively Caroline: How I Beat Bulimia for Good and Found Real Happiness, is one of the first books of its kind to tackle the subject of how eating disorder survivors can and do create lives of joy and health that persist past the early years of recovery. Some media reports have led people to believe that there is an “addictive personality” that careens from addiction to addiction without ever experiencing lasting wellness, but Caroline’s story is a demonstration that many people can, and do, put food into its proper perspective and then go on to handle other life challenges without ...

With a wealth of clinical and lived experience, psychiatrist Dr Warren Ward and nutritionist/coach Lexi Crouch have dedicated their professional lives to helping people heal from eating disorders. They believe eating disorders are caused by inadequate brain nutrition, which can tip some people into a preoccupation with food, weight and numbers, leading to inflexible thinking, which in turn keeps them in a perpetual state of malnourishment and restriction.

At the age of four, Anne McTiernan is left by her mother at a boarding school. Overcome by sadness from the neglect she experiences there, Anne emotionally and physically starves. A doctor, appalled by her excessive weight loss, forces Anne's mother to bring her home, but she is still not safe.

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Stick with It by Sean Young, read by Roger Wayne. We all have bad habits - whether it's a weakness for junk food, a smartphone addiction or a lack of exercise. But change is hard. Forty percent of dieters quit within a week. Eighty percent of New Year's resolutions don't last beyond January. How can we kick bad habits - and stick with it?

Have you noticed since starting all this "healthy" eating, dieting, perfect Paleo diets, wholesome Vegan escapades, and all that glorious exercise that you did in the name of better health and a better appearance…That you look and feel worse? Eating pretty much any overly restricted diet will do these things to you. Throw some "healthy" exercise in there with it and you've got a recipe for shutting down your entire system. It's all caused by a drop in metabolic rate. Diet Recovery is your guide to bringing your metabolism back up to its ideal level.

In The Binge Eating Cure, you will learn specific step-by-step strategies to help you be able to overcome any desire or urge to binge eat. While many books will tell you not to eat certain foods and give you strategies to help you stop consuming them, they aren't dealing with the source of the problem.