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If you don't like what you see when you look in the mirror, you may not realize that these feelings are entirely within your grasp. You don't need extensive cosmetic surgery, pricey beauty treatments, or weight loss programs, but you may need to do something even more drastic - change your perspective and the way you view yourself. The Body Image Workbook offers a comprehensive program to help you stop focusing on your perceived imperfections and start feeling more confident about the way you look.

I once had a therapy client who told me she bought an exercise bike about six months prior to coming in for some one on one coaching. As is the fate of most exercise bikes, treadmills, and gym equipment, it just sat there getting dusty. So she was thinking about getting rid of it. The reason was that she lacked the energy or motivation to use it and wanted to know how to get back into that mindset to lose weight.

From body ideals to bad break ups, sexual shame to toxic productivity, Megan interrogates how cultural and internal narratives diminish us and explores what we can do to ditch social pressures and live life as our fullest and boldest selves. Candid, empowering and insightful, We Don't Make Ourselves Smaller Here is a powerful rallying cry for embracing authenticity in all areas of our lives. It is an invitation to revisit the places where parts of us were lost, taken or given away, and to reclaim them.

Too many of us have grown up feeling unhappy with our bodies, harmed by society’s rigid and often unrealistic ‘beauty’ standards. But increasingly, parents and carers don’t want their kids to feel the same pain they did. In Body Confident You, Body Confident Kid, psychologist Dr Charlotte Ord provides easy-to-follow, evidence-based guidance for helping your children develop positive body image, and for freeing yourself from deeply entrenched body-based anxieties.

It's never too late to get back into fitness and reverse the aging process. Saba Moor-Doucette is the perfect example. At 68, she challenged herself to compete as a Bikini Diva/sports model, and, at 75, ended up an undefeated six-time International Senior Division INBA Bikini Diva Champion. Now she shares her story, her secrets, and her inspirational message with everyone. Saba documents her amazing journey and tells us how everything begins with the thought. First, we think it, then we do it, and finally, we embody it, and become the person we've always dreamed of being.

The Diet-Free Revolution debunks the myths we've been sold about food, nutrition, health, and weight loss and offers an antidote to the pain and suffering caused by yo-yo diets, untenable food regimens, and quick fixes. Clinical psychologist and eating-disorder specialist Alexis Conason shows that finding health, happiness, and real nourishment is about more than changing what, how, or when we eat: It's about radically shifting our relationship with food by healing our relationship to ourselves.

Diet culture is a system of oppression that values only certain types of bodies and equates thinness with health. It permeates American society and even lurks in our safest spaces, such as schools, medical offices, and places of worship. But when you begin to see its lies for what they are, you can fight back, build resilience and self-esteem, and trust your divine design.

Countless diets, cleanses, and 30-day challenges are geared to help people lose weight, heal their digestion, and have more energy. Yet these temporary protocols fall short when it comes to true transformation. Nutritionist Carly Pollack lived a vicious cycle of weight ups and downs until trial and error, and over a decade of formal study in health and healing, led her to the insights she has since shared with thousands. In Feed Your Soul, she presents her unique understanding of body science, brain wiring, and spiritual principles to facilitate real, lasting change.

Adam Buxton takes a sideways look at some of our confusing modern ideas and explains why you're definitely doing it all wrong. Across five episodes he explores the worlds of work, parenting, diet, the environment and family. Is the idea of a 'dream job' - one that inspires and fulfils us and makes our lives worth living - really possible? Does your toddler eat strictly rationed organic produce, or are they allowed to eat what they want? Does installing solar panels and despairing over plastic bottles make a difference if we continue to jet off on holidays and eat imported guava?!

Have you struggled with obesity, poor self-image, weight-related health problems, or simply a feeling of inadequacy or meaninglessness? Are you tired of feeling left out of the active world around you? Have you ever contemplated weight-loss surgery? Kelley Gunter found herself dealing with all of these issues and many more as she weighed the decision to undergo bariatric surgery. Finding very few personal accounts from those who had gone through the same struggles, she decided to write about her experience in an effort to help others facing the same decision.

Preteen Ronni is a seemingly normal girl growing up in the suburbs, until the day her mom hides cookies. Soon after, Ronni has an unexplainable compulsion to eat more and more and more junk. In secret and shame, she overeats and binges through her tween years, high school, college, an abusive first marriage, and even a loving second marriage. Over 30 years, she steals food, eats food off of others' plates, and scavenges food out of the trash, until one night, once again stuffed after a binge, on TV, she hears the words “compulsive overeater”.

Intuitive eating is a great way to get off the diet roller coaster, stay healthy, build confidence in your body, and take the guesswork out of mealtime. But if you're like many people, you may have trouble staying on track. Enter mindfulness! In this step-by-step guide, you'll learn to practice intuitive eating using the Four Foundations of Mindfulness, a classic Buddhist framework. You'll discover that you can easily stay on track with your intuitive eating path, and actually improve it for better health and overall well-being.

My personal and professional experience helping addicts for the last 20 years are combined in Death to Addiction. Putting death to my addictions by applying the strategies in this audiobook changed my life and will do the same for you.

This is the story of a beautiful, young woman — a talented athlete and musician, raised in a loving home, surrounded by friends — undermined by a ruthless inner voice that claimed her body and her spirit. Emilee: The Story of a Girl and Her Family Hijacked by Anorexia reveals the cracks in our health care system, the institutions we are taught to trust, as well as our own prejudices and misinformation about eating disorders, mental illness, and addiction.

Body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) is a mental health condition in which an individual spends a lot of time worrying about perceived flaws or defects in their appearance. However, these flaws are either minor or cannot be seen by others at all. Regardless, the individual may feel so ashamed, anxious, and embarrassed by these perceived flaws or defects that they will try to avoid specific social interactions or situations.

The psychological impact of intuitive eating is powerful, as it aims to remove the barriers of foods you eat versus foods you are not permitted to have and puts the decision making in your mind and body. You eat what you feel and when those forbidden foods are readily available, the cravings for them may not be as strong as they once were, when they were “off the table.”

Does your Inner Food Monster manage to wreak havoc on your diet when it breaks free of its cage? Or does it spend as much time outside its cage as it does inside, only depending on who wins the daily argument? If you answered yes to either of the above you’re going to love this book, because it pulls back the curtain on what is probably the most powerful, yet most frequently misunderstood feature of my previous book Never Binge Again...food rules!

And believe it or not, there’s a way you can actually “shrink your stomach” to eat less. And no, it doesn’t involve cutting you open, nor does it involve messing up with your stomach in the way you’re probably imagining right now. I’m taking about gastric band hypnosis. I know you may be thinking: What is it and what does it involve? Is it dangerous? How does this “gastric band” work exactly? How would it affect my weight? How do I get started? This audiobook has all the answers to these and many more questions, so keep reading!

The alkaline diet lifestyle is not only about what you eat. It is also about what you drink, how you relax, and what you think. Simply put, the alkaline diet lifestyle it is about how you live! After going through this program, you will feel inspired to set up a strong foundation and change your way of thinking in order to be ready to make some positive changes in your life and discover a new, balanced you.

"ESCAPE - Breaking Free from a Self-Made Prison" is a stirring and deeply personal memoir that chronicles a remarkable journey of resilience, healing, and self-discovery. Diagnosed with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome in his twenties, Tim Kaufman's life spiraled into a vortex of painkillers, alcohol, and fast food addiction, leading him to a critical juncture at over 400 pounds, riddled with chronic diseases, and near immobility.