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Bones is the tragicomic, roller coaster story of Robyn Shumer’s lifelong battle with—and triumph over—a crippling eating disorder. It’s an honest, first-person account that takes the listener inside the emotional, mental, physical, and social world of an anorexic from childhood to adulthood, through four decades of a changing society whose message to girls and women remained stubbornly the same: “thinner is the winner.”

The Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions of Overeaters Anonymous, Second Edition is OA’s keystone book—created specifically as a study of the OA 12-step recovery program. If you think you may have a compulsive food behavior—including but not limited to compulsive eating, undereating, food addiction, anorexia, bulimia, binge eating, overexercising, and purging—give yourself the chance of recovery. Listen how, through working the 12 steps and studying the 12 traditions, OA members have found “physical, emotional, and spiritual healing".

Ten years on from first writing about her own experiences of mental illness, Bryony Gordon still receives messages about the effects it has on people. Now perimenopausal and well into the next stage of her life, parenting an almost-adolescent, just what has that help - and that connection with other unwell people - taught Bryony about herself, and the society we live in? What has she learned, and why have her views on mental health changed so radically?

Sick of the negative self-talk, the relentless self-doubt, and feeling self-conscious? It's time to love yourself and love your body. You’ve been told your whole life that you’re not skinny enough, rich enough, young enough, not special enough. Too fat, too old, too loud, too needy, too much - and you’ve convinced yourself it’s true. Perfectly Imperfect will take you on a deep journey of self-discovery, healing, and self-love awakening. If you’ve been waiting for a sign that it’s time, here it is.

In this powerful memoir, Sheri Segal Glick explores her rough, rocky, rutted road to being in recovery. As a young teenager, Sheri developed anorexia, and has battled the illness for decades. The Skinny explores her journey, from her tumultuous time as a teenager to the disease rearing its ugly head as an adult, with her signature wit, wry humour, and absolute honesty.

What makes some people continue to eat when they are not hungry? Why are they unable to stick to a diet despite warnings from doctors and their own understanding of health and nutrition? Most people are familiar with the concept of alcoholism and drug addiction, but the idea that certain foods and quantities of foods can be addictive is only slowly gaining acceptance. Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous is for anyone who wants to learn more about food addiction and the solution offered by Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous (FA).

Raw and wickedly funny, this debut memoir details one woman’s recovery from her emotional eating disorder, while navigating divorce, discrimination, motherhood, and the madness that is Tinder dating.

Eating disorders affect people from all backgrounds, and often go untreated for years. This book offers an accessible and evidence-based overview.

Have you ever wondered why your brain self-sabotages? Or why your actions seem self-defeating or destructive? This book explores how our brains have evolved to favor survival over mental well-being—creating "controlled explosions"—and provides practical ways to understand, acknowledge, and diffuse them. Controlled Explosions in Mental Health identifies everyday scenarios in which one may experience self-destructive behavior such as procrastination or self-criticism.

With his trademark energy and encouragement, Jules von Hep reveals the transformative power of banishing negativity and reclaiming your self-worth in a world filled with pressures and expectations. Combining his personal story of how he learned to love his own body—and what he learned from years of spray tanning people from all walks of life—with practical tips, Jules' book provides a step-by-step guide to a life filled with self-assurance, fulfilment and a glow that emanates from deep within.

I haven't tasted chocolate for over ten years and now I'm walking down the street unwrapping a Kit Kat. Remember when Kate Moss said, 'Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels'? She's wrong: chocolate does. At the age of 32, after ten years of hiding from the truth, Emma Woolf finally decided it was time to face the biggest challenge of her life. Addicted to hunger, exercise and control, she was juggling a full-blown eating disorder with a successful career, functioning on an apple a day.

This audiobook helps listeners change the way they approach mealtime. It includes a section that focuses on the occasional mindless eater and emphasizes that mindful eating isn't only for those on diets or for those who have severely problematic eating habits - it's for everyone. It features over 50 new tips for eating mindfully. You will learn how to be more aware of what you eat and get to know your fullness and hunger cues and how to savor and appreciate every bite!

After knowing friends with anorexia and being baffled by their behavior, Laura Moisin suddenly found herself prone to the same disease - not eating at all and going weeks at a time consuming nothing but water and the occasional black coffee. Deceiving therapists by misleading them with symptoms of depression, her anorexia is prolonged, and her health deteriorates rapidly.

If you’ve ever felt like you have a challenging relationship with food and eating, you’re not alone —and Jo North gets it. In this powerful and personal audiobook, she shares her journey from food madness to food freedom, blending real-life experience with insights from top experts in the field. Jo doesn’t just offer advice — she helps you rethink everything you thought you knew about fat, weight loss, and emotional wellbeing.

This intimate self-help guidebook offers a complete understanding of bulimia and a plan for recovery. It includes a two-week program to stop bingeing, ideas for things to do instead of bingeing, a guide for support groups, specific advice for loved ones, and "Eat Without Fear," Lindsey Hall's story of her self-cure, which has inspired thousands of other bulimics.

¿Es el cuerpo de tus sueños si es una pesadilla mantenerlo? Esta guía divertida, pero basada en la evidencia, te descubrirá una revolucionaria forma de comer (y, en el fondo, de vivir) que te hará sentir y verte mejor a largo plazo (y no solo a partir del lunes). Con un estilo desenfadado y positivo, el primer audiolibro de Isabelle Junot ofrece una serie de herramientas y estrategias para cambiar tu mindset y que la comida deje de ser un problema a resolver para volver a ser un placer gracias a la alimentación intuitiva.

Imagine waking in a hospital bed to find your frail pale arm punctured by an IV transferring fluids and nutrients into your weak, stiff body. You just had a seizure precipitated by your chronic struggle with unacknowledged eating disorders (ED). Living Full is author Danielle Sherman-Lazar's story. Filled with pop culture references, humor, and delivered with raw honesty about the escalating and dangerous behaviors of a person acting out the mental illness of ED, Living Full chronicles Danielle Sherman-Lazar's step-by-step descent into the nightmare that is full-blown ED.

¿Y si perder peso no significara castigo, restricción o culpa, sino una profunda sanación interior? Si has probado todas las dietas, has contado todas las calorías y sigues atrapado en el mismo ciclo de antojos, culpa y alimentación emocional... este paquete es tu gran avance. La pérdida de peso no es solo física, es profundamente emocional.¿Te encuentras buscando comida cuando estás estresado, triste o abrumado?¿Los antojos nocturnos sabotean tus objetivos?¿Sientes que has «empezado de nuevo» más veces de las que puedes contar?¿Anhelas la paz con tu cuerpo más que nada en el mundo?

Did you know that true power comes from within, harnessing strength from vulnerability? Informed by her personal journey with health and wellness, and drawing on her experiences as an actor, yoga teacher, personal trainer and health coach, Isabelle Cornish is on a mission to help inspire others to step into their power.

Words to Eat By details key elements of constructive, smart self-talk. You’ll learn how to distinguish trash thoughts from treasure thoughts, why external motivators don’t work long-term, and which internal motivators will fast track you to success. It includes hundreds of examples of exactly what to say and not say to yourself in challenging food situations and how to get and keep your body moving.