Eating Disorders category: 671 books
Mealtimes and Milestones
A teenager's diary of moving on from anorexia
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2010
An astonishingly moving and mature account of a young woman's struggle with anorexia nervosa, a serious mental illness affecting 1.1 million people in the UK. At fourteen years of age, Constance Barter was admitted as an in-patient to a specialist eating disorders unit where she remained for seven...
When Food Is Love
Exploring the Relationship Between Eating and Intimacy
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1992
**#1 New York Times bestselling author of Women Food and God
“A life-changing book.”—Oprah
In this moving and intimate book, Geneen Roth, bestselling author of Feeding the Hungry Heart and Breaking Free from Compulsive Eating, shows how dieting and emotional eating often become...
Beauty Sick
How the Cultural Obsession with Appearance Hurts Girls and Women
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
An award-winning Northwestern University psychology professor reveals how the cultural obsession with women's appearance is an epidemic that harms women's ability to get ahead and to live happy, meaningful lives, in this powerful, eye-opening work in the vein of Naomi Wolf, Peggy Orenstein, and...
by lucie Buissereth
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2016
BIG BOTTOM BLUES is a gripping and emotional story about a woman’s traumatic childhood riddled with sexual and physical abuse and its devastating effects in her adult life. Lucie B takes us through the pain of body dysmorphia, isolation, addiction to food, binge eating disorder, shame, guilt and...
How to Disappear Completely
On Modern Anorexia
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
She devoured their memoirs and magazine articles, committing the most salacious details to memory to learn what it would take to be the very best anorexic. When she was hospitalized at fifteen, she found herself in an existential wormhole: how can one suffer from something one has actively sought...
by Grace Bowman
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2007
Bright, popular, pretty and successful, Grace Bowman had the world at her feet. So what drove her to starve herself nearly to death at the age of 18? And what, more importantly, made her stop?
A grippingly honest account of life with anorexia nervosa, A Shape of My Own is Grace's hearbreaking,...
by Joan Ryan
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
A sports reporter investigates the training of girls as professional gymnasts and figure skaters, arguing that the pressure to succeed and to look beautiful results in mental and physical harm, from eating disorders to psychological trauma.
How to Nourish Your Child Through an Eating Disorder
A Simple, Plate-by-Plate Approach to Rebuilding a Healthy Relationship with Food
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2018
Help your child eat normally again
Parents are the first to know when their child starts behaving differently. Has your son stopped eating his favorite food, or does he refuse to eat out with friends? Has your daughter drastically increased her exercise regimen, or become obsessed with health...
Binge Crazy
A Psychotherapist’s Memoir of Food Addiction, Mental Illness, Obesity and Recovery
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2015
If you or someone you know struggles with weight and/or eating-related issues, BINGE CRAZY is a compelling read. It offers both an experiential and professional view of what does and doesn’t work in the treatment of binge eating and overeating, along with valid insight into the disorder’s psychological...
Feed Me!
Writers Dish About Food, Eating, Weight, and Body Image
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2009
In our appearance-obsessed society, eating is about much more than hunger and sustenance. Food inspires pleasure and anxiety, shame and obsession. We are constantly judged on how we look, so we’ve come to judge ourselves (and others) on what and how we eat.
Joyce Maynard writes about learning...
Our Confessions
Real Women Overcoming Real Problems with God's Help
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2012
Eating disorders, sex, drugs, alcohol, pornography, masturbation, poor self-esteem, cutting, stealing... Being a teenager and a follower of Christ at the same time is difficult. The world asks us to live one way, and Christ asks us to live a different way. So what do we do when we’re tempted and...
by Laurie Glass
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2015
Do you need help combating the eating disorder voice? You know, the voice that tells you lies such as recovery isn't possible, you're beyond help, you must have a perfect recovery, and the like. Use these quotes to help you change those thoughts, replace lies with the truth, negative thoughts...
by Janet D. Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
Nourish Your Mindset • Reclaim Your Body • Transform Your Life!
Are you an emotional eater?
Are you tired of having several sizes of clothes in your closet?
Are you ready to stabilize your weight once and for all?
If you are overweight, it’s likely you’re already an expert on...
Looking Queer
Body Image and Identity in Lesbian, Bisexual, Gay, and Transgender Communities
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Looking Queer: Body Image in Lesbian, Bisexual, Gay, and Transgender Communities contains research, firsthand accounts, poetry, theory, and journalistic essays that address and outline the special needs of sexual minorities when dealing with eating disorders and appearance obsession. Looking Queer...