Lize Brittin: 4 books

Training on Empty is the true-life story of Lize Brittin. Heavy as a child and raised in an emotionally tempestuous alcoholic home, Lize developed anorexia when she was thirteen, and soon afterward took up distance running to help ease the pain of her social and family isolation. Her high-school coach...

The Eating Disorder Recovery Handbook is not so much a step-by-step guide to recovery but more a book of suggestions that anyone can consider at any given time during recovery. The handbook offers suggestions, exercises, and ideas that anyone can consider at any given time during recovery from anorexia,...

In today’s hyper-competitive world, young athletes are often pushed to compete and pressured to succeed to the point of burnout. It doesn’t have to be that way, though, because many young runners genuinely enjoy training and racing. But in order to train and compete intelligently—to become better...

You Can't Use Your Cell Phone in Here is an eclectic assortment of a dozen short stories written by two authors over a period of fifteen years in at least three different parts of the United States. Confronting themes ranging from the farcically satirical to the darkly evocative, The collection...