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Every story has a villain. Every story has a hero. I am both. I'm a smart girl but I couldn't stop hurting myself, or the people I loved. This is the book I needed then. I'll start where most stories leave you. I'll tell you how I recovered. I'll show you what no one ever told me.
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Experience this dynamic 90-day journey and satisfy your true hunger.
Are you satisfied with your relationship with food? And if not, are you ready to take those first steps toward food freedom? Maybe you question if you're brave enough to face the oppressive power food has over you, or the way it makes you feel about yourself. Maybe you're only beginning to recognize your relationship with food isn't a healthy one. Or maybe you've lost hope that...
223) Circadian
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Winner of the 2015 Red Hen Press Nonfiction Award, Circadian is a collection of essays that weaves together personal account with cultural narrative, only to unravel them and explore the brilliant and destructive cycles of who we are. Using poetic language and lyric structures, Clammer dives into her stories of trauma, mental illnesses, and a wide spectrum of relationships in order to understand experience through different of frameworks of thought....
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Faith bears all in this interactive workbook of personal reflections about her struggles and achievements while battling an eating disorder, along with a multitude of strategies, and tools for others who also suffer from an Eating Disorder.
No topic is left untouched. Trauma. Anxiety. Depression. Familial Addiction. The list goes on.
By keeping an open mind when contemplating the emotional strains that come with having an eating disorder...
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No more diets. No more guilt and shame.
Instead- a healthy relationship with food, and freedom from weight worries.
The Cherry Pie Paradox is a process of awakening a new inner identity, which no longer views food as treacherous or your body as unlovable. This book opens the door to a life practice of enjoying food, appreciating the body you have, and leaving your weight struggles behind so you can get on with the important work of your life...
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A hilarious and inspiring memoir about one young woman's journey to find a better path to both physical and mental health.
At twenty-nine, Kelsey Miller had done it all: crash diets, healthy diets, and nutritionist-prescribed "eating plans," which are diets that you pay more money for. She'd been fighting her un-thin body since early childhood, and after a lifetime of failure, finally hit bottom. No diet could transform her body or her life. There...
227) Starstruck
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Random House Children's Books
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2011
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1 online resource
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Gwendolyn "Dough" X doesn't think she has much going for her—she carries a few extra pounds, her family struggles with their small bakery in a town full of millionaires, and the other kids at her New Jersey high school don't seem to know that she exists. Thank the stars for her longtime boyfriend, Philip P. Wishman—or "Wish." He moved away to California three years ago, when they were 13, but then professed his love for her via e-mail, and he's...
228) Cub
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IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 2
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In the gay community, a young, husky man is known as a "cub," seventeen-year-old Theo fits the definition perfectly, but he is very self-conscious about his body.
So when his best friend signs him up for a cooking competition at Heat, the city's newest trendy restaurant, Theo is nervous. He's confident in his baking ability and dreams of opening his own bakery one day, but he's not a chef, and he hates being in the spotlight.
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Do you ever compare yourself to others, and feel like you don't measure up?
This is not due to a lack of good looks, self-confidence or effort.
It's the Beauty Load in action, and you are not alone.
Our personal perception of our beauty, or the lack of it, can make us feel anything from numb to anxious, stressed and ashamed, and at worst like we don't belong and that we are not worthy of being loved.
In the Beauty Load, counsellor Nicole...
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Change is only 50 minutes away! Find out everything you need to know about increasing your self-esteem with this straightforward guide.
We have all felt self-conscious or insecure at one point or another, and minor hang-ups or complexes are a normal part of being human. However, when left unchecked, these worries can have a major impact on our social lives and relationships with other people, so taking some time to work on your self-esteem is a vital...
231) Weighted Wings
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What we see in the mirror has a power that we let define us, and spiritual well-being. We have become, weighed down by what a scale reads, a diet's rules, and/or the opinions of others. Body image starts, persists, and can end the day, consuming one's thoughts. At the heart of the matter is, FOOD. American culture doesn't eat to nourish and fuel our bodies, no, we have taken on a live to eat rather than eat to live mindset. What to eat is a persistent...
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Do you struggle with your body image? Are you walking beside someone who does? Are you suffering on account of dieting, disordered eating, over-exercising, compulsively seeking cosmetic surgery or obsessively resisting the ageing process? Psychologist and Psychotherapist Nicole Schnackenberg delves into how your identity may come to be pinned on to your physical appearance, and what you can do about it. Bodies Arising offers a series of meditations...
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Shani Raviv is a misfit teen whose peer-pressured diet spirals down into full-blown anorexia nervosa-something no one in her early-nineties, local South African community knows anything about.
Fourteen-year-old Shani spends the next six years being "Ana" (as many anorexics call it), on the run from her feelings. She goes from aerobics addict to Israeli soldier to rave bunny to wannabe reborn, using sex, drugs, exercise and, above all, starvation,...
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You're not a little girl anymore, and you'd love to start wearing makeup and pretty clothes, getting guys to notice you...
But hang on a sec, girl! Before you get all made up, you need to make sure you know what it really means to be pretty. Pretty is...
• the light you shine through your service
• the way you show gentleness, humility, and respect
• how you act when no one is watching
Jennifer Strickland used to be a model, and she knows that...
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Qu'est-ce que l'anorexie et comment comprendre cette maladie?
Anorexie. Ce mot est souvent utilisé, entendu à la télévision, lu dans les magazines, mais très peu expliqué... Nous en connaissons les conséquences mais pas les causes. La maladie touche de nombreuses jeunes filles mais aussi des garçons.
Que se passe-t-il dans leur tête? Pourquoi veulent-ils être de plus en plus maigre alors que leur vie est menacée? Il s'agit d'un vrai problème...
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Lily Johns began life as a confident, happy child but in her teenage years started to suffer from lack of self-esteem and confidence. This spiralled into anorexia and depression that held her captive from her teenage years to her early 40s. She was never able to speak to anyone who had recovered from anorexia because 'the system' never gave her the opportunity. She therefore never believed that recovery was possible. This harrowing but ultimately...
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You've been fed a lie. Losing weight is not just about food. It's connected to what makes you reach for something to eat when you feel overwhelmed, even though afterward, you feel more miserable than ever.
“Losing Weight Is an Inside Job” is for everyone trapped in a cycle of dieting and self-punishment. After decades of struggling, and having achieved lasting weight loss herself, Katy Landis presents powerful tools to help you lose weight for...
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La obesidad es una enfermedad crónica, compleja, en la que están implicados factores muy diversos. La psicología tiene un papel muy importante que cubrir en el tratamiento de la obesidad, con la modificación y control de aquellas variables psicológicas (emocionales y conductuales) implicadas en su inicio, desarrollo y mantenimiento. Obesidad y trastorno por atracón pretende destacar la importancia que para su tratamiento supone tener en cuenta...
239) But I Deserve This Chocolate!: The Fifty Most Common Diet-Derailing Excuses and How to Outwit Them
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Most of us are really, really good at devising reasons to indulge in foods that derail our diets and healthy eating plans. Who among us hasn't thought, "I had a stressful day, so I deserve this chocolate," or, "Buttery popcorn would go so well with this movie!" When we view food as a reward, emotional eating can be difficult to overcome. Most fad diets tell you to "control" your eating, use willpower, ignore your cravings, or just stop eating. Recall...
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If your teen has an eating disorder-such as anorexia, bulimia, or binge eating-you may feel helpless, worried, or uncertain about how you can best support them. That's why you need real, proven-effective strategies you can use right away. Whether used in conjunction with treatment or on its own, this book offers an evidence-based approach you can use now to help your teen make healthy choices and stay well in body and mind. When Your Teen Has an Eating...
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