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Positive body image isn't believing your body looks good; it is knowing your body is good, regardless of how it looks. How do you feel about your body? Have you ever stayed home from a social activity or other opportunity because of concern about how you looked? Have you ever passed judgment on someone because of how they looked or dressed? Have you ever had difficulty concentrating on a task because you were self-conscious about your appearance?...
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"The second edition of the best-selling and groundbreaking work where a therapist and an eating disorder survivor come together to deliver expert guidance for readers with eating disorders. With its unique three-phase approach to eating, this book smashes the illusion of control, the power, and the lies of the deadly illness of disordered eating, providing a concrete plan for long-term recovery"--
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"Isn't it time you got off the diet treadmill? In The Food Addiction Recovery Workbook, physician Carolyn Coker Ross offers the proven-effective Anchor Program™ to help you curb cravings, end body dissatisfaction, manage stress and emotions without food, and truly satisfy your soul. When it comes to addiction, abstinence isn't always the answer--and with food addiction, this is especially true. And yet, for decades nutritional experts have dissected...
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"When we look in the mirror, so many of us see a 'before' picture: the miserable person in the side-by-side shot waiting for the 'glow-up' (read: weight loss) that will bring true happiness. But it's not our fault that we see our bodies as projects in need of constant work: this is just one of the beliefs that has been ingrained in us by diet culture. We have been taught to view ourselves as a collection of 'problem' areas for which the billion-dollar...
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"A funny, edgy, comprehensive program for chronic dieters to help them escape the plague of diet culture, regain their personal power, and reboot their relationship with food, weight and self-worth. What's the one thing the $60-billion-dollar diet industry doesn't want you to know? Diets don't work. Our bodies are hardwired against them. But instead of wondering what's wrong with dieting, we wonder what's wrong with us. Diet programs earn billions...
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"Today's young women face a bewildering set of contradictions when it comes to beauty. They don't want to be Barbie dolls but, like generations of women before them, are told they must look like them. They're angry about the media's treatment of women but hungrily consume the very outlets that belittle them. They mock modern culture's absurd beauty ideal and make videos exposing Photoshopping tricks, but feel pressured to emulate the same images they...
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Embody: A Guide to Celebrating Your Unique Body (and quieting that critical voice! ) brings to life the work of The Body Positive, a non-profit organization founded in 1996 by Connie Sobczak and Elizabeth Scott, LCSW. This book's message is rooted in the philosophy that people inherently possess the wisdom necessary to make healthy choices and to live in balance. It emphasizes that self-love, acceptance of genetic diversity in body size, celebration...
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An extraordinary, powerful connection exists between feeling and feeding that, if damaged, may lead to one relying on food for emotional support, rather than seeking authentic happiness. This unique workbook takes on the seven emotions that plague problem eaters - guilt, shame, helplessness, anxiety, disappointment, confusion, and loneliness - and shows readers how to embrace and learn from their feelings. Written with honesty and humor, the book...
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Based on her bestselling book Made to Crave, but now distilled down for busy readers, Lysa TerKeurst offers a new perspective to all those stuck in the cycle of losing weight but then gaining it back, equipping readers with the deeper spiritual and emotional motivation they need to make lasting changes.
10) Intermittent Fasting for Beginners: Simple and Easy-to-Follow Weight Loss Guide on How to Lose We
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Do You Want to Lose Weight in 2020 - and to Keep It Off the healthy way?
Are you struggling to live a healthier lifestyle and want to improve your overall health this year - while still being able to eat your favorite foods? If so, read on...
If you have been experiencing the pain of trying to lose weight, this isn't an uncommon feeling. So many have tried different solutions in order to lose weight. And although there are those that work, they...
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“It's Not What Things You See, It's How You See Things” deals with many of the issues that are plaguing people in every walk of like. These things may not seem to be as destructive as the pandemic or natural disasters, but I guarantee they are extremely damaging to those involved. Suicide plagues the United States at a clip of over forty-eight thousand a year. Many of those suicides are due to how people look at themselves. It is estimated that...
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Do you have a silent struggle that wages deep within your soul? Are there questions, shame, and sadness that resound within at the end of every day? The emptiness and loneliness from not being understood . . . the pain that is too much to bear by yourself so you must numb out just to survive. And then there's the question of "Why do I survive?"
You are not alone. This book is a window into the souls of the troubled at heart. It reveals the silent...
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In Binge No More, eating disorder specialist Dr. Joyce Nash provides all the information, encouragement, and guidance readers need to transform their relationship with food. Readers will identify with the experiences of other binge eaters whose insightful stories are told throughout the book. Rather than providing a one-size-fits-all solution to binge eating, Dr. Nash provides a variety of sound cognitive therapy techniques and coping strategies to...
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We all think we know what we have to do to manage our weight, and blame ourselves when we don't meet the goals we have set. In reality, we need to understand the biology behind the body's regulation of weight to achieve the control we are hoping for. And we need strategies for overcoming obstacles: the stress of daily life, emotional upsets, and people who sabotage our efforts or attack our self-esteem. The Cognitive Behavioral Workbook for Weight...
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Do you regularly deprive yourself, succumb to temptation, feel guilty, and then start the process all over again? If so, you need this book. Dr. Michelle May will guide you out of the food-focused, diet-driven downward spiral that leads you to eat, repent, and repeat. She offers a powerful alternative: end your love-hate relationship with food and start eating mindfully and joyfully. No more rigid rules, strict exercise regimens, questionable drugs,...
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Find out: How to Achieve Willpower & Gain Focus to Achieve your Most Important Goals!
According to a 2010 survey made by the American Psychological Association, willpower deficiency is the NUMBER ONE hurdle people face in accomplishing their worthwhile goals.
In this book "self control: Developing Amazing Willpower to Achieve Goals that Matter", learn the strategies and techniques in order to gain effective willpower and self-control in getting...
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Recovery from an eating disorder requires support of all kinds, and this book is filled with ideas, exercises, and insights. Based on Kerrigan's own inspiring story, Telling Ed No! is a toolbox of over 100 practical recovery tools, from family interventions, yoga, and massage, to music, role playing and even holding ice! Each tool brings the recovery process to life with prompts for reflection and discussion. Readers looking for guidance will learn:...
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This book centers around the disorder and effects of Bulimia Nervosa, and its story is universal to all those who are struggling with any sort of physical and emotional addiction. I learned that Eating Disorders are not about food and weight, but rather it's an internal struggle between love and rejection.
Important to note is that this is not a religious book. It's a personal spiritual journey that has nothing to do with any religious denomination...
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Beauty Comes with a Beast is the true story of Korrie Jo Vance. Korrie is a 30-year-old woman who has carried the secret of her eating disorder for 15 years. As she reaches for recovery, she shares within these pages how she got caught in the dieting trap, the trauma she faced, the lies she believed, her journey through therapy, and her advice for all those who are struggling to overcome a Beast of their own. She opens up her journal and gives us...
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If you eat to help manage your emotions, you may have discovered that it doesn't work. Once you're done eating, you might even feel worse. Eating can all too easily become a strategy for coping with depression, anxiety, boredom, stress, and anger, and a reliable reward when it's time to celebrate. If you are ready to experience emotions without consuming them or being consumed by them, the mindfulness, acceptance, and dialectical behavior therapy...
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