Book Recommendations
Life Without Ed How One Woman Declared Independence from Her ED
Author: Jenni Schaefer
With: Thom Rutledge
Jenni had been in an abusive relationship with Ed for far too long. Then she met psychotherapist and author Thom Rutledge who taught her how to treat her eating disorder as a relationship, not a condition. By separating herself from her eating disorder, Jenni says goodbye to Ed forever.
Goodbye Ed, Hello Me
Author: Jenni Schaefer
This much anticipated follow-up to Life Without Ed explains what it is like to be “fully recovered” from an eating disorder. Picking up shortly after the first book left off, Jenni starts off by explaining how she skipped her first marriage, “The wedding invitations were stamped but not mailed, and (her wedding dress) and three pink bridesmaid dresses were bought but never worn.” Instead, she gave the engagement ring back to a man “who loved alcohol more than me,” and wrote wedding vows to herself, promising to love and honor herself and accept all of her faults and strengths with patience and gentle kindness.
Bulimia: A Guide to Recovery
Authors: Lindsey Hall, Leigh Cohn, M.A.T.
25th Anniversary Edition
This intimate guidebook is a 25th anniversary edition of Hall and Cohn’s original bestseller. It offers a complete understanding of bulimia and a plan for recovery, with practical self-help tools, answers to frequently asked questions, a two-week program to stop bingeing, specific advice for loved ones, and “Eat Without Fear,” Hall’s story of self-cure which has inspired thousands of other bulimics.
The information in this edition is completely revised and updated, with added material on treatment, healthy eating, body image, relationships, and much more. Includes input from 400 recovered bulimics. Useful for therapists, educators, bulimics, and their loved-ones.
Anorexics and Bulimics Anonymous
Editor: Faith Farthing
The Fellowship Details Its Program of Recovery for Anorexia and Bulimia
An official publication of the Anorexics and Bulimics Anonymous fellowship, this text presents all of the information that A.B.A. regards as vital to full recovery. It offers explanations of the addiction model, reliance on a Higher Power, and a thorough 12-Step Program, which was originally adapted from Alcoholics Anonymous. In addition to explaining the steps and how to use them, 13 women tell their own stories of recovery. May be used by individuals or as a guidebook for group meetings.
Beginner’s Guide to ED Recovery
Author: Nancy Kolodny, MSW, LCSW
Nancy Kolodny encourages both young men and women to take charge of their lives by learning about their eating disorders and starting a practical course of action. Included are special sections for athletes, romantic partners, tips for avoiding relapse, basic facts about nutrition, and the role of families in recovery.
Body Image Workbook, 2nd Ed.
Author: Thomas F. Cash, PhD
An 8-step Program For Learning To Like Your Looks
With over 40 user-friendly “helpful sheets,” Thomas Cash, a respected pioneer of the psychology of appearance and author of more than 100 articles and books, shows how to discover your personal body image, harness knowledge for change, improve “private body talk,” practice body-mind relaxation, stop self-defeating behaviors, and treat your body right!
Exercise Balance
What’s Too Much, What’s Too Little, and What’s Just Right for You!
Healthy exercise means finding a balance between overtraining and inactivity. By using a combination of real-life examples and clinical studies, this book shows readers how to develop their own personal prescription for what is best for their unique body and situation. Written by widely recognized experts in the field of eating disorders and athletics, it talks about both ends of the exercise continuum in an effort to encourage balance.
The Parent’s Guide to Eating Disorders
Authors: Marcia Herrin, Ed.D., M.P.H., R.D., Nancy Matsumoto
Supporting Self-Esteem, Healthy Eating, & Positive Body Image at Home
Winner of the 2008 National Parenting Publications Honors Award
Here is the first book written by a nutritionist that addresses childhood and teenage eating disorders – with an emphasis on home-based recovery. Herrin focuses on early detection and intervention with effective solutions that begin in the home, at virtually no cost other than a healthy investment of time, effort, and love. This second edition includes new information on family communication, medical consequences, advice for siblings, relapse prevention, food plans, and boys at risk.
Dieting: A Dry Drunk [Paperback]
Becky Lu Jackson (Author), Joseph Mortola (Foreword)
This book is for people with eating problems, weight problems, dieting problems. It’s for those who have experienced obsessive and compulsive attempts to control their weight and eating. This is a book about how’s-not whys- how to identify it, how to arrest it, and how to be free from “needing” it.
Just as there are guidelines and information that help a newly dry alcoholic shift from the depression and resentment of a “dry drunk” to the acceptance and enjoyment of sobriety, this book will offer direction and insight to those problem eaters still suffering from a dieting mentality–their own brand of a dry drunk.
The same solutions and tools that are used in arresting alcoholism are presented as a “map” to facilitate the problem eater in moving from the depressing cycle of out-of-control eating, over-controlled eating, to the serenity and sanity of continuous abstinence from compulsive eating.
Whereas dieting can create a bondage to the insanity of a “dry drunk,” abstinence from random, compulsive, overeating or undereating can offer “sobriety”–a sane and sound way to address and arrest addictive eating.
Beating Ana
Author: Shannon Cutts
How to Outsmart your Eating Disorder and Take Your Life Back
This is the first book to address mentoring and sponsoring as an effective and viable movement in the treatment of eating disorders in much the same way that Alcoholics Anonymous uses mentors and sponsors for alcoholics seeking recovery. This book presents this approach as a new and valid one by highlighting how it cured the author of her 15-year battle with anorexia and bulimia. You will walk with Shannon through the recovery process as you read private correspondence from five of her long-term mentees and participate right along with them in self-quizzes, short exercises, motivational affirmations, and journaling that is specifically designed to give you the courage, support, and tangible skills to say no to your eating disorder and yes to your life!
