| brain over binge recovery guide: Brain Over Binge Kathryn Hansen, 2022-04-12 After completely and independently conquering a debilitating eating disorder, Kathryn Hansen wrote Brain over Binge to share her struggle-and her escape from it-with those still trapped in the compulsive binge-purge cycle. Since the book's initial release in 2011, it has endured as an essential road map for using the power of the brain to erase harmful habits and create lasting change. The second edition is fully revised and updated with new information, compelling insights, and uplifting success stories that will inspire readers to break free from their own self-defeating behaviors.Brain over Binge is both a memoir and a scientific account, providing a gripping personal narrative and a research-based perspective on bulimia and binge eating disorder. Kathryn traces the course of her own condition and then describes in detail her unconventional approach to recovery. In the process, she offers a much-needed alternative viewpoint on the landscape of eating disorder literature to help others in the throes of any form of out-of-control eating.The mainstream view of bulimia holds that it's a complex disorder that manifests as a means of coping with deep underlying emotional and psychological problems. But the author resolutely departs from this philosophy, cuts through the confusion she experienced in traditional therapy, and simplifies both the origins of binge eating and its cure. As Kathryn explains the brain-based principles that led to her recovery from relentless bingeing and purging, Brain over Binge sheds current and crucial light on our human potential to overcome destructive patterns and reclaim our lives. |
| brain over binge recovery guide: The Brain Over Binge Recovery Guide Director of the Center for Asian Studies and Professor Department of Asian Studies Kathryn Hansen, Amy Johnson Ph D, 2016-01-07 This book is a much-requested follow-up to Brain over Binge (2011), in which the author shared how she used a basic understanding of neuroscientific principles to overcome bulimia. In this sequel and companion volume, with the help of fellow specialists and authors Amy Johnson, Ph.D., Katherine Thomson, Ph.D., and others, Kathryn Hansen lays out those same principles--and many more--in a self-help format that educates and empowers binge eaters to pursue recovery efficiently and effectively. Although recovery is not the same for everyone, this book posits that there are only two essential goals that must be met to end bulimia and binge eating disorder: (1) learning to dismiss urges to binge and (2) learning to eat adequately. As you work toward these goals with a streamlined focus, you will discover your own strength, develop your own insights, and put into practice ideas and behaviors that work uniquely and authentically for you. The Brain over Binge Recovery Guide is comprehensive in its length and scope, but utterly simple in its approach: You will read and use only what you need--continuing on in the book if you feel you need more information and guidance; putting it down and moving on with your life when you feel you're ready--so that you can start living binge-free as quickly and easily as possible. |
| brain over binge recovery guide: Crave Cynthia M. Bulik, Ph.D., 2010-12-01 February 2007, a landmark clinical study by researchers at Harvard University was published in Biological Psychiatry and was soon picked up widely by the media. A survey of 3,000 participants found that 2.8 percent of them suffered from binge eating disorder (BED); that women were twice as likely to report binge eating; and that BED occurs across the age span, from children to the elderly. By extrapolating the statistics to the general population, health professionals estimate 5,250,000 American women and 3,000,000 men suffer from binge eating. The same month the study was published Jane Brody revealed in the New York Times that when she was a 23 years old, her food binges were so extreme that Many mornings I awakened to find partly chewed food still in my mouth.... Cynthia Bulik, director of the UNC Eating Disorders Progam, is a foremost authority on binge eating. BED can affect anyone, and can be caused by brain chemistry, genetic predisposition, psychology, and cultural pressures--but none of those triggers make giving in to food cravings inevitable. Crave helps readers understand why they crave specific foods, recognize their individual triggers, and modify their responses to those triggers. Binge eating disorder is highly treatable; 70% to 80% of patients at the UNC Eating Disorders Program triumph over their binge eating by using techniques to curb the crave. Through the stories of some of these patients--men and women, young and old--and with the guidance of Bulik, readers will develop a variety of strategies to use in conquering their cravings and establishing healthy eating habits. |
| brain over binge recovery guide: Rational Recovery Jack Trimpey, 1996-11 Offers a self-recovery program for substance abuse based on the Addictive Voice Recognition Technique. |
| brain over binge recovery guide: Stop Eating Your Heart Out Meryl Hershey Beck, 2012-04-01 What to do when food is NOT your best friend. According to a recent Self Magazine, 65% of all women have an unhealthy relationship with food. Often they use food to numb feelings and become binge eaters or overeaters. Food becomes their primary means for coping with everyday stress, anxiety, and other difficult feelings. Drawing on her experience of working with compulsive overeaters and binge eaters for over twenty years, Meryl Beck has developed a revolutionary approach for rewiring your brain that incorporates spiritual, physical and emotional tools for getting healthy. This 21 day plan brings together tools from psychotherapy, the 12 Steps, personal growth, work, and energy healing. Stop Eating Your Heart Out offers a way to rewire the brain to respond differently to the impulses and feelings that create bingeing. Beck, a therapist, and former binge takes an approach to recovery from emotional eating that incorporates spiritual, emotional, and energy work. |
| brain over binge recovery guide: The Inside Scoop on Eating Disorder Recovery Colleen Reichmann, Jennifer Rollin, 2021-03-31 The Inside Scoop on Eating Disorder Recovery is a fresh, smart, how-to book that helps people with eating disorders to heal their relationship with food, their bodies, and ultimately themselves. Written from the perspective of two eating disorder therapists, both of whom are recovered from their own eating disorders, the text uses humor, personal narratives, and research-proven techniques to offer specific actionable guidelines on how to reclaim one’s life from an eating disorder. The authors explain the difference between dieting and eating disorders, break down the stages of recovery, and provide tips on how to thrive in each stage. The book provides powerful myth-busting on topics that have historically not been addressed in eating disorder recovery books, such as clean eating and orthorexia, exercising in recovery, and fat positivity. Tangible exercises at the end of each chapter provide readers with advice and tips on implementing this approach to recovery in their day-to-day lives. The humorous and down-to-earth tone of the book creates an authentic and genuine feel that leaves those who struggle with chronic dieting, eating disorders, and negative body image feeling connected and heard. |
| brain over binge recovery guide: The Bulimia Help Method Richard Kerr, 2014-11-07 I am truly extraordinarily impressed with the Bulimia Help Method. It is really impressive and very approachable - Susan Paxton, Past President of the Academy for Eating Disorders & Professor at La Trobe University There is much helpful, practical, and inspirational advice in this program, which is all backed by thorough research and the experience of thousands of recovered bulimics. - Kathryn Hansen, Author of Brain over Binge The Bulimia Help Method introduces readers into a five-step process that teach those seeking recovery how to stop bingeing, relearn normal eating and overcome bulimia for life. Inside you will find: - A unique step-by-step treatment plan for overcoming bulimia nervosa - A new empowering perspective on why you binge and how to remove the urge - Effective strategies for dealing with relapses - Comprehensive guidance for creating a meal plan - How to ensure you stay recovered and at your healthy ideal weight for life - How to remove food obsession and anxious emotions - How to rebuild a healthy relationship with food so that food becomes just food - How to let go of food rules, restriction and fears Actual Reader Feedback: “The Bulimia Help Method has saved my life. I don’t say that lightly. I have been bulimic for 10 years and I have been full of despair. I thought I would never recover and this sad sham of a life was what mine would be. I have been to doctors, therapy, and read every self-help book; this was the first time anything worked. I finally have hope again!!!” - Nadine “I am in a position to graduate from your recovery program. After over 45 years of disordered eating this is quite incredible! I would like to express my profound gratitude to you for compiling a system that works. Once more I have a potential to live life, be happy, healthy and help others along the way.” - Pat Mary “I had bulimia for 13 years when I came across this program. I am not sure what compelled me to purchase because I secretly believed that there was nothing that could help me, but now almost 6 months later I am no my way to being free of bulimia forever” - Sarra |
| brain over binge recovery guide: Getting Better Bite by Bite Ulrike Schmidt, Janet Treasure, June Alexander, 2015-09-16 Getting Better Bite by Bite is an essential, authoritative and evidence-based self-help programmethat has been used by bulimia sufferersfor over 20 years. This new edition maintains the essence of the original book, while updating its content for today's readers, drawing on the latest knowledge of the biology and psychology of bulimia and its treatment. The book provides step-by-step guidance for change based on solid research. The use of everyday language, stimulating contemporary case study story-telling and evocative illustrations in Bite by Bite provide encouragement, hope and new perspectives for all readers. This handy-sized book fills a need for easy-to-understand information about Bulimia Nervosa, a serious and prevalent eating disorder. Ulrike Schmidt and Janet Treasure are world-renowned researchers and authorities on eating disorders, and June Alexander, a former sufferer of anorexia and bulimia, is a respected writer and internationally-known eating disorder awareness advocate. Getting Better Bite by Bite is a valuable resource - for sufferers, for their families, and for the health professionals and carers treating them. |
| brain over binge recovery guide: Overcoming Bulimia Nervosa and Binge Eating 3rd Edition Peter Cooper, 2012-11-01 As many as one in 20 women in the western world suffer bouts of uncontrolled binge-eating. Going without food for long periods, making yourself vomit and taking laxatives you don't need are also common and are symptoms of bulimia nervosa. Such illness costs lives if not successfully treated. Now in its second edition, Peter Cooper's sympathetic and highly acclaimed guide gives a clear explanation of the disorder and the serious health issues that can result from it. He describes the treatments available today and, most importantly, sets out a self-help guide for those who want to tackle their difficulties for themselves, with a step-by-step programme. This is a real chance for sufferers to take the road to recovery, and will give their friends and family a much clearer understanding of the illness and its remedy. |
| brain over binge recovery guide: The Binge Code Alison C. Kerr, 2017-06 THE BINGE CODE is a bold new book based on hard science and over 10 years of helping people end their binge eating issues and lose excess weight. In this book, Alison Kerr shows you exactly, step by step, how to unlock your mind, body and emotions from The Binge Trap. Using her breakthrough approach you can overcome compulsive eating, food cravings, weight fluctuations and learn to live life to the fullest. Freedom from food issues and a happier, more fulfilling life is within reach. |
| brain over binge recovery guide: Bulimia Lindsey Hall, Leigh Cohn, 2010-11-10 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. This 25th anniversary edition updates all information from previous editions, with additional material on assessment, new diagnostic categories, men and bulimia, evidence-based treatment, family-assisted recovery, the influence of media (including the Internet), the essentials of long-term recovery, and much more. Drawing on its established track record of success, Bulimia: A Guide to Recovery includes input from 400 recovered bulimics and is packed with valuable tips for therapists, educators, bulimics, and their loved ones. |
| brain over binge recovery guide: The Overcoming Bulimia Workbook Randi E. McCabe, Tracy L. McFarlane, Marion P. Olmsted, 2004-01-01 Severe dieting often results in periods of reactive binge eating, a phenomenon experienced by one in twenty American women. Responses to these periods may include prolonged fasting, self-induced vomiting, abuse of laxatives and diuretics, and obsessive exercise: all symptoms of bulimia. This workbook contains tools to help bulimics break the cycle of bingeing and reacting, allowing them to take control of their lives and make positive behavior changes. Practical advice and real-life examples reinforce attitudes and offer encouragement. Discover that it is possible to overcome the disorder and live a happier, more fulfilling life. Through their cutting-edge research at the internationally renown Toronto Hospital Eating Disorders Programme, the authors of The Overcoming Bulimia Workbook have developed a step-by-step program for recovery whose efficacy has been proven in clinical trials. The authors empower bulimia suffers to take control of their lives, not only by providing information and advice, but by giving them a personalized format with which they can put these new behavior changes into practice - a process that is critically important for lasting recovery. This comprehensive guide covers everything from bulimia's symptoms, causes, and risks to how to normalize eating, shift eating-disordered thoughts, build on personal strengths, improve self-esteem, deal with underlying issues, prevent relapse, and understand what medications can help. With many real-life examples, this book also helps readers learn through the experiences of other sufferers how to overcome their disorder and live a happier, more fulfilled life. |
| brain over binge recovery guide: A Kind of Thief Vivien Alcock, 1993 One of a series of top-quality fiction for schools, this is the story of Elinor, who cannot believe that her rich and successful father is a criminal. When he is convicted of fraud, Elinor is left with a mysterious lost luggage token. She is soon in possession of a locked case. Should she open it? |
| brain over binge recovery guide: The DBT Solution for Emotional Eating Debra L. Safer, Sarah Adler, Philip C. Masson, 2018-01-01 Eating can be a source of great pleasure--or deep distress. If you've picked up this book, chances are you're looking for tools to transform your relationship with food. Grounded in dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), this motivating guide offers a powerful pathway to change. Drs. Debra L. Safer, Sarah Adler, and Philip C. Masson have translated their proven, state-of-the-art treatment into a compassionate self-help resource for anyone struggling with bingeing and other types of stress eating. You will learn to: *Identify your emotional triggers. *Cope with painful or uncomfortable feelings in new and healthier ways. *Gain awareness of urges and cravings without acting on them. *Break free from self-judgment and other traps. *Practice specially tailored mindfulness techniques. *Make meaningful behavior changes, one doable step at a time. Vivid examples and stories help you build each DBT skill. Carefully crafted practical tools (you can download and print additional copies as needed) let you track your progress and fit the program to your own needs. Finally, freedom from out-of-control eating--and a happier future--are in sight. Mental health professionals, see also the related treatment manual, Dialectical Behavior Therapy for Binge Eating and Bulimia, by Debra L. Safer, Christy F. Telch, and Eunice Y. Chen. |
| brain over binge recovery guide: The Hungry Brain Stephan J. Guyenet, Ph.D., 2017-02-07 A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year From an obesity and neuroscience researcher with a knack for engaging, humorous storytelling, The Hungry Brain uses cutting-edge science to answer the questions: why do we overeat, and what can we do about it? No one wants to overeat. And certainly no one wants to overeat for years, become overweight, and end up with a high risk of diabetes or heart disease--yet two thirds of Americans do precisely that. Even though we know better, we often eat too much. Why does our behavior betray our own intentions to be lean and healthy? The problem, argues obesity and neuroscience researcher Stephan J. Guyenet, is not necessarily a lack of willpower or an incorrect understanding of what to eat. Rather, our appetites and food choices are led astray by ancient, instinctive brain circuits that play by the rules of a survival game that no longer exists. And these circuits don’t care about how you look in a bathing suit next summer. To make the case, The Hungry Brain takes readers on an eye-opening journey through cutting-edge neuroscience that has never before been available to a general audience. The Hungry Brain delivers profound insights into why the brain undermines our weight goals and transforms these insights into practical guidelines for eating well and staying slim. Along the way, it explores how the human brain works, revealing how this mysterious organ makes us who we are. |
| brain over binge recovery guide: Never Binge Again(tm) Glenn Livingston, Ph.d., 2015-08-25 If you're a man who struggles with binge eating, emotional eating, stress eating, or if you repeatedly manage to lose weight only to gain it all back, you may be approaching things with the wrong mindset. Most contemporary thought on overeating and bingeing focuses on healing and self-love-a very feminine approach. But men who've overcome food and weight issues often report it was more like capturing and caging a rabid dog than learning to love their inner child... Open the cage even an inch-or show that dog an ounce of fear-and it'll quickly burst out to shred your healthy eating plans, undoing all your progress in a heartbeat. From his perspective as a formerly food-obsessed psychologist-and previous consultant to major food manufacturers-Dr. Livingston shares specific techniques for isolating and permanently dis-empowering your fat thinking self. He reveals much of his own personal journey in the process. If despite your best intentions you find yourself in one or more of the following situations then this book is for you... You've tried diet after diet with no permanent success... You constantly think about food and/or your weight... You feel driven to eat when you're not hungry (emotional overeating)... You sometimes feel you can't stop eating even though you're full... You sometimes feel guilty or ashamed of what you've eaten... You behave differently with food in private than you do when you're with other people... You feel the need to fast and/or severely restrict your food to make up for serious bouts of overeating... Never Binge Again can help you: Dramatically improve your ability to stick to ANY healthy food plan so you can achieve your weight loss and/or fitness goals... Quickly recover from mistakes without self judgement or unnecessary guilt... Free yourself from the prison of food obsession so you can enjoy a satisfying, delicious, and healthy diet for the rest of your life! What the Hades is this? It can't be this simple. But I'm closer to my goal weight than I've been in decades! - Peter Borromeo A powerful, thought provoking, and very un-ladylike approach to the problem of bingeing! - Stephanie King A unique and brilliant way to leverage will power; passionate, convincing, defiant and inspiring - all at the same time - Richard Guy Never Binge Again squelched that awful voice in the back of my mind which says 'you'll backslide eventually, no matter what.' Thanks to this book failure is no longer an option! - Warren Start I'm still reeling with the revelation I have the ability to Never Binge Again, just like my ability to never rob a bank, never push and old lady into traffic, or never jump off of a perfectly good cliff! [...] This book is THE TOOL I need to conquer ever attempting to satisfy emotional feelings with carbo-laden calories again! - Traci Rickards If you follow this simple program, you CAN see results without the 'normal' struggle. No eating foods you don't like. No fancy rules, schedules or psychotic workouts. It puts you fully in charge of your eating...and it's sustainable. - Keith Duncan CPT (Certified Personal Trainer) Refreshingly unlike any other nutrition/healthy-eating/wellbeing title I've ever read...and I've read quite a few! The total absence of charts, food diaries, calorie counters and so on is fabulous. - Celia Almeida |
| brain over binge recovery guide: The Eating Disorder Trap Rdn Cedrd-S Goldberg, Robyn L. Goldberg, 2020-03-30 Written by an expert with over twenty years of experience in the field of eating disorders, this book will give you the facts in a friendly and easy to read format. Get to know what you are dealing with and how it is taking a toll on your body and quality of life. Get rid of the myths diet culture has had you believe. Find out where to go and who to turn to for expert and compassionate care, maximizing your potential for recovery. On the other hand, you might be a treatment provider looking for sound knowledge regarding eating disorder screening tools, lab tests, online resources, and how to put together the most effective treatment team. If that is the case, then this book is for you. The journey with an eating disorder can seem like a dark maze with no way out. Allow the knowledge in this book to light the path. Recovery is possible with the right information, guidance, and treatment intervention. |
| brain over binge recovery guide: The Binge Eating Prevention Workbook Gia Marson, Danielle Keenan-Miller, 2020-09-01 An innovative and customizable 8-week plan to help you take control of your eating habits—once and for all. Do you feel like your eating gets out of control? When it comes to food, does it feel like your life is controlled by cycles of deprivation and bingeing? Whether or not you’ve been formally diagnosed with a binge-eating disorder, you know that something needs to change. But like many disorders, what helps one person may not help another. That’s why The Binge Eating Prevention Workbook offers a wide range of evidence-based tools to help you take charge of your eating habits. Using the eight-week protocol in this workbook, you’ll learn how to recognize your triggers, cope with difficult emotions, improve relationships, and make healthy food choices that will ultimately improve how you feel. You’ll learn to understand the underlying causes of your binge eating, how to recognize binge-inducing environmental factors, why dieting just doesn’t work, and mindfulness techniques to help you stay present when the urge to binge takes hold. If you’re ready to break the shame-filled cycle of binge eating, this workbook has everything you need to get started today. |
| brain over binge recovery guide: Reclaiming Yourself from Binge Eating Leora Fulvio, 2014-03-28 Are you one of the millions of people suffering from Binge Eating Disorder? Are you caught in the trap of binge eating, emotional eating, mindless eating, and diet obsession? This book will help you to stop binge eating right now. You will heal the underlying issues that lead to your binge eating when you implement this complete mind, body and spirit approach to healing. It will help you to become the person who you know you are while gently guiding you away from the tyranny of food and body obsession, diets, binge eating and scales. You will come to a place of freedom and peace around food and your body so that you can enjoy your life. You will be able to breathe with ease and settle in to a place of normalcy around food and your body. Reclaiming Yourself from Binge Eating uses a new approach to treating binge eating that does not include dieting, deprivation, willpower, or any kind of self-criticism. These easy steps to becoming a normal eater are thought provoking, action oriented and enjoyable. Recovery from the torment of food and negative body image is within reach. , |
| brain over binge recovery guide: Aging Powerfully Nan Simonsen, 2020-12-15 Shrouded by feelings of abandonment, inferiority, and self-loathing throughout adolescence Nan turned to food to ease her pain. She developed an eating disorder that would stay with her throughout adulthood. In Aging Powerfully, she explains the steps she took to not only break free, but to step out on a path to aging with power. She offers a wealth of straightforward and powerful lifestyle modification that anyone can adopt.?Learn how to improve sleep, relieve stress, and calm yourself?Become clear on what counts as exercise and how to add to it?Realize that your tribe can boost your health nearly as much as the right food?Understand why a whole food plant-based dietary focus is powerful?Embrace how having a clear purpose will add years to your life ?Living F.U.L.L.Y will help you embrace your 80s, 90s, and beyond |
| brain over binge recovery guide: Overcoming Binge Eating Christopher G. Fairburn, 1995 A Reading Well: Books on Prescription Title Winner of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT) Self-Help Seal of Merit! Do you have a binge eating problem or know someone who does? This authoritative book provides all the information needed to understand binge eating and bring it under control. Whether you are working with a therapist or on your own, clear, step-by-step guidelines will show you how to: overcome the urge to binge gain control over eating behavior reduce the risk of relapse establish stable, healthy eating habits. This unique book has been tested in controlled clinical research, and its success rate is outstanding. From a leading international expert, here is the advice, encouragement, and detailed guidance that can help you transform your relationship to food. |
| brain over binge recovery guide: 8 Keys to Recovery from an Eating Disorder: Effective Strategies from Therapeutic Practice and Personal Experience (8 Keys to Mental Health) Carolyn Costin, Gwen Schubert Grabb, 2011-11-07 A unique and personal look into treatment of eating disorders, written by a therapist and her former patient, now a therapist herself. This is no ordinary book on how to overcome an eating disorder. The authors bravely share their unique stories of suffering from and eventually overcoming their own severe eating disorders. Interweaving personal narrative with the perspective of their own therapist-client relationship, their insights bring an unparalleled depth of awareness into just what it takes to successfully beat this challenging and seemingly intractable clinical issue. For anyone who has suffered, their family and friends, and other helping professionals, this book should be by your side. With great compassion and clinical expertise, Costin and Grabb walk readers through the ins and outs of the recovery process, describing what therapy entails, clarifying the common associated emotions such as fear, guilt, and shame, and, most of all, providing motivation to seek help if you have been discouraged, resistant, or afraid. The authors bring self-disclosure to a level not yet seen in an eating disorder book and offer hope to readers that full recovery is possible. |
| brain over binge recovery guide: The Little Book of Big Change Amy Johnson, 2016-01-02 Little changes can make a big, big difference! In The Little Book of Big Change, psychologist Amy Johnson shows you how to rewire your brain and overcome your bad habits—once and for all. No matter what your bad habit is, you have the power to change it. Drawing on a powerful combination of neuroscience and spirituality, this book will show you that you are not your habits. Rather, your habits and addictions are the result of simple brain wiring that is easily reversed. By learning to stop bad habits at the source, you will take charge of your habits and addictions for good. Anything done repeatedly has the potential to form neural circuitry in the brain. In this light, habits and addictions are impersonal brain wiring problems that result from taking your habitual thinking as truth, and acting on that thinking in the form of doing your habit—over and over. This book offers a number of small changes you can make in your everyday life that will help you stop your bad habit in its tracks. If you want to understand the science behind your habit, make the decision to end it, and commit to real, lasting change, this book will help you to finally take charge of your life—once and for all. |
| brain over binge recovery guide: Eating Disorders in Sport Ron A. Thompson, Roberta Trattner Sherman, 2011-01-19 Over the past fifteen years, there has been a great increase in the knowledge of eating disorders in sport and effective means of treatment. In this book, the authors draw on their extensive clinical experience to discuss how to identify, manage, treat, and prevent eating disorders in sport participants. They begin by examining the clinical conditions related to eating problems, including descriptions of specific disorders and a review of the relevant literature. Special attention is given to the specific gender and sport-related factors that can negatively influence the eating habits of athletes. The second half of the book discusses identification of participants with disordered eating by reviewing symptoms and how they manifest in sport; management issues for sport personnel, coaches, athletic trainers, and healthcare professionals; treatment; and medical considerations, such as the use of psychotropic medications. A list of useful resources is included in an appendix, as well as a glossary of important terms. |
| brain over binge recovery guide: The Addiction Recovery Workbook Paula A. Freedman, 2018-12-25 Prevent relapse with practical coping skills for everyday life from The Addiction Recovery Workbook. Preventing relapse in daily life is where the work of a successful recovery starts. The Addiction Recovery Workbook equips you with actionable strategies and coping skills to prevent relapse and succeed in recovery when faced with day-to-day challenges, stressors, and triggers. From navigating intimate relationships to handling high-risk situations and environments, this addiction workbook offers practical tools and hands-on exercises that you can use in your home, work, and personal life. Once equipped with these skills, you'll establish new routines and rituals that do not involve substance abuse, and redefine your personal identity by connecting to what matters most to you. Designed for you to use on your own, or alongside a 12-step program, The Addiction Recovery Workbook gives you the skills you need for successful recovery with: An essential introduction that helps you understand your addiction and outlines the path to recovery. Coping skills to handle thoughts, emotions, relationships, and high-risk situations and environments. Prevention tactics that help you succeed in lifelong recovery by setting new, addiction-free lifestyle habits and routines. On your recovery journey ahead, there may be obstacles. Armed with the skills and strategies in The Addiction Recovery Workbook, you will overcome every single one you face. |
| brain over binge recovery guide: Males With Eating Disorders Arnold E. Andersen, 2014-06-17 First published in 1990. The subject of anorexia nervosa and, more recently, bulimia nervosa in males has been a source of interest and controversy in the fields of psychiatry and medicine for more than 300 years. These disorders, sometimes called eating disorders, raise basic questions concerning the nature of abnormalities of the motivated behaviors: Are they subsets of more widely recognized illnesses such as mood disorders? Are they understandable by reference to underlying abnormalities of biochemistry or brain function? In what ways are they similar to and in what ways do they differ from anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa in females? This book will be of interest to a wide variety of people—physicians, psychologists, nurses, social workers, occupational therapists, nutritionists, educators, and all others who may be interested for personal or professional reasons. |
| brain over binge recovery guide: 8 Keys to Recovery from an Eating Disorder WKBK (8 Keys to Mental Health) Carolyn Costin, Gwen Schubert Grabb, 2017-03-07 Readers are walked through strategies by a therapist and her former patient. 8 Keys to Recovery from an Eating Disorder was lauded as a brave and hopeful book as well as remarkably readable. Now, the authors have returned with a companion workbook—offering all new assignments, strategies, and personal reflections to help those who suffer from an eating disorder heal their relationship to food and their bodies. Clients of Costin and Grabb consistently tell them that knowing they are both recovered is one of the most helpful aspects of their treatment. With this experience as a foundation, the authors bring together years of clinical expertise and invaluable personal testimony, from themselves and others, to the strategies in this book. Readers will get a glimpse of what it's like to be in therapy with either Carolyn or Gwen. Filled with tried and true practical exercises, goal sheets, food journal forms, clinical anecdotes and stories, readers are guided in exploring their thoughts, feelings, and coping strategies while being encouraged to choose how they want to approach the material. This book is an important resource to anyone living with destructive or self-defeating eating behaviors. |
| brain over binge recovery guide: From Binge to Blackout Chris Volkmann, Toren Volkmann, 2006-08-01 Throughout his college years, Toren Volkmann partied like there was no tomorrow, having what was supposed to be the time of his life. Like so many parents, his mother, Chris, overlooked Toren’s growing alcohol problem. But when he graduated, Toren realized he’d become a full-blown alcoholic. And he was not alone. Considered a rite of passage, teenage drinking has skyrocketed to epidemic proportions, fostering a generation of young adults whose lives are already beginning to come apart under the strain. This book, written from the viewpoints of both mother and son, is a riveting, enlightening, and heartbreakingly true story of a family that was able to confront the fear, pain, and denial that threatened to destroy them—and survive the epidemic of teenage drinking that’s putting America’s future at risk. |
| brain over binge recovery guide: The Small Book Jack Trimpey, 1995-12-02 Offering an alternative to twelve-step programs, a supportive guide explains how to identify the impulse to use intoxicants, learn self-control, value sobriety, and replace addiction with self-supportive behaviors. |
| brain over binge recovery guide: Love Fat Tabitha Farrar, 2015-06-05 This is a book for anyone who has ever had trouble making sense of nutritional advice, been on a diet, or is sick and tired of being told what to eat. Tabitha Farrar became ill with anorexia at seventeen. She describes her ten year struggle with the disease and dispels many myths about eatings disorders. During her recovery, she felt bombarded with all sorts of conflicting advice on food and diet. An avid researcher, she became obsessed with nutritional science and healthy eating. Despite all the literature that informed her she was eating the right things, her body rebelled against her low-fat diet and ultra-healthy eating plans. Stuck in a battle between her head and her gut, who would have ever thought that she would learn to Love Fat. |
| brain over binge recovery guide: Cognitive Behavior Therapy and Eating Disorders Christopher G. Fairburn, 2008-04-21 This book provides the first comprehensive guide to enhanced cognitive behavior therapy (CBT-E), the leading empirically supported treatment for eating disorders in adults. Written with the practitioner in mind, the book demonstrates how this transdiagnostic approach can be used with the full range of eating disorders seen in clinical practice. Christopher Fairburn and colleagues describe in detail how to tailor CBT-E to the needs of individual patients, and how to adapt it for patients who require hospitalization. Also addressed are frequently encountered co-occurring disorders and how to manage them. Reproducible appendices feature the Eating Disorder Examination interview and questionnaire. CBT-E is recognized as a best practice for the treatment of adult eating disorders by the U.K. National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE). |
| brain over binge recovery guide: Your Brain on Porn Gary Wilson, 2015-02-12 The internet has made access to sexually explicit content radically more easy than ever before. This book is essential reading for those who are troubled by their own relationship with pornography, and for those who want to understand the world we now live in. Republished with extensive revisions in December 2017. |
| brain over binge recovery guide: Recover Your Perspective Janean Anderson, 2018-02-27 Learn how eating disorders work and how to reclaim your life! When you're living with an eating disorder, things can feel confusing. Sometimes it's hard to separate yourself from the eating disorder. Recover Your Perspective is the playbook for recovery, walking you through the ways eating disorders change your thoughts, feelings, and actions. In her straightforward, compassionate, and humorous voice, psychologist and eating disorder specialist Dr. Janean Anderson helps you Learn: -How eating disorders distort your thoughts -How eating disorders keep you off-balance with your emotions -How to break the eating disorder cycle and live your values Editorial Reviews: Recover Your Perspective is written by someone who has done just that--and then some. Janean is able to present the essentials of recovery with the heart-felt compassion of someone who has traveled into the depths of an eating disorder and found her way out, and also with the comprehensive understanding of a highly skilled psychologist and certified eating disorder specialist. While it is chock full of the necessary steps and practical skills essential for recovery, it is also infused with hope, humor, a little bit of sass, and a profound understanding of the recovery journey --from the inside out. This book is truly a gift to anyone seeking recovery and freedom. - Anita Johnston, Ph.D., CEDS, Author, Eating in the Light of the Moon |
| brain over binge recovery guide: Clearing Your Path to Permanent Weight Loss Cookie Rosenblum, Cookie Rosenblum Ma, 2014-02-20 Are you trying to lose weight? Are you tired of trying to lose weight? Before you start another diet, put yourself on 'pause' and take a deep breath. This book will help you with a crucial step that most people who want to lose weight overlook: figuring out what's gone wrong in your past efforts. Do you know exactly why you haven't been able to lose weight and keep it off? It all starts in your mind. And until you correct some basic errors in the way you think about weight loss, you may be doomed to keep repeating your mistakes, over and over again. In 30 short and sweet lessons, along with thought-provoking corresponding worksheets, you will finally learn how to lose weight on whatever program you choose. This book won't tell you what to eat, but instead will help you put together all the puzzle pieces that have held you back from your perpetual goal of real weight loss. You will learn key concepts from the coaching field, basic psychology and simplified, understandable brain science that will give you the answers about why you've failed before, and then give you the ammunition to successfully move forward. Imagine how different you'll feel embarking on your weight loss journey armed with this knowledge: Truly understand exactly why typical 'eat less, move more' diets don't work. Learn how to take responsibility for your current weight, without beating yourself up or feeling bad. Find out what prevents you from reaching your goals...hint: you may have a secret belief. Don't wait to feel good when you get to your goal weight; learn why you must feel good first! Understand when to prioritize changing your thoughts and when to take action first. How to create continuous motivation at any time, without a cheerleader, a program or a personal guru. Discover how to keep your goals on the front burner at all times. Weight loss is not a mystery. But you need the right tools and the right mindset. Clearing Your Path to Permanent Weight Loss gives you exactly that. A look at where you've been, an understanding of why and how you created the extra weight you're carrying around, the common mistakes you've made, and the solutions. |
| brain over binge recovery guide: The NeuroWhereAbouts Guide Crystal Collier, 2020-07-31 Inside The NeuroWhereAbouts Guide are tools, activities, contracts and scripted talks for 18 high-risk behavior topics, such In The NeuroWhereAbouts Guide, Dr. Crystal Collier offers a validated neurodevelopmental approach to help parents raise their kids to refrain from engaging in high-risk behaviors. Drawing on her in-depth analysis of prevention science research and brain development, and her extensive experience working as a therapist with youth and their families, Dr. Collier shows what healthy brain development looks like, how risky behaviors can derail that trajectory, and how to keep development on track. Illustrated in a fun, infographic style, The NeuroWhereAbouts Guide puts at parents' fingertips the developmentally appropriate prevention science they need to set children up for success from elementary school to college.as alcohol, marijuana, other illicit drugs, technology overuse, vaping and e-cigarettes, pornography, body image and eating issues, self-injury, suicide, dating violence, risky sexual behavior and more. The Guide gives parents the scientific basis for setting healthy boundaries and limits regarding the many risky behaviors faced by today's youth, and what those limits should look like at each phase of brain development. This is the practical information parents, teachers and counselors need to be 'Brain-Savvy' - to know what prevention measures to take, and when - to help kids make healthy choices for life. |
| brain over binge recovery guide: Bulimia Sucks! Kate Hudson-Hall, 2021-01-31 Are you sick of your bulimia? Do you want to learn how to stop your compulsive behaviors once and for all? If YES is your answer, fantastic, then Bulimia Sucks! is exactly what you've been looking for. In this eating disorders book, Kate will show you the same way she helps her clients begin their recovery with the Bulimia Sucks! Program. Taking you from sick to freedom! Personally suffering 15 years of horrific bulimic and anorexic experiences you're going through, and now 25 years entirely free from anorexia and bulimia. Thanks to various therapist's help, Kate decided that she would like to help others. So, 21 years ago, she trained as a psychotherapist, hypnotherapist, and NLP practitioner. Kate then continued to train in many other therapy areas, one being an eating disorder therapist. Helping clients overcome their bulimia completely, and this is what she'll be teaching you. You may be wondering how this program is different? Well, have you ever tried to reprogram your mind before? In Bulimia Sucks! You will learn astounding new approaches to reprogram your mind and discover how to: - Stop bingeing & making yourself sick, abusing laxatives, diuretics & compulsive exercising. - Breakthrough your negative thoughts, feelings, triggers and urges. - Improve your negative body image & reach and maintain your ideal weight without starvation. - Stay motivated to propel you into your bulimia free future. Do you want to be like Nicola? She says, I'm eating three meals a day (!!!!) with snacks between. I'm not taking any substances and only having the occasional glass of wine. The bulimia is fading away and only appears its ugly head when I am anxious, which is rare. If the answer is yes? Then now is the time to grab your copy... Read this book NOW... Bulimia Sucks! will give you the empowering techniques to begin to unlock your secrets to bulimia freedom. INCLUDES BONUS DOWNLOAD TO BULIMIA FREEDOM |
| brain over binge recovery guide: Emotional Eating Mary Knox, 2019-11-05 Bad News If you feel like you might be suffering from emotional eating, this book will help you confirm those thoughts. BUT... GOOD NEWS is that if you are an emotional eater and you are wondering what you can do about it, this book will give you a step-by-step guide on how to begin your journey to recovery. Included is not only this step-by-step guide, but a wealth of information to help you understand exactly why you crave the foods that you do and how the chemicals contained in the food are acting on your brain to keep you addicted and craving them day after day. This book not only gives you this information and the information you will need to know that you need to make a change, but it is also chock-full of solutions for you to make lasting change. This book involves lots of self-reflection, and it requires effort, but you will get out what you put into it. When you put in effort and do the work this requires in terms of self-reflecting and going within to discover the answers that only you can discover, you will finish Emotional Eating having learned so much about yourself, about what makes you do the things you do, and about what you wish to change and how to change it. This book is an invaluable source for those who want to make a change in their relationship with food, but they don't know how to do it or where to start. Many of us have a rocky relationship with food that we may have learned as children, but we do not recognize usually. Emotional Eating will help you recognize this. Treating a problem always begins with identifying the problem. Emotional Eating will help you to identify the problem. There are few books out there with an interactive guide to identifying the problem and then beginning to remedy it interactively. Emotional Eating contains both in one without you ever needing to step into the office of a therapist or a psychologist. Everything you need is already within you, and Emotional Eating helps you to find these things for yourself. This book will allow you to have lasting results because you will know how to go within and see what you are looking for if you ever need to later in your life. Inside Emotional Eating, you will discover: If you suffer from emotional eating by learning what makes an emotional eater The difference between actual hunger and emotional hunger What makes you crave those unhealthy snack foods and how it affects your brain to improve your mood temporarily Struggling with what snacks are healthy when you need a quick bite? Includes options for substituting your favorite snack foods with healthier options A workbook for you to figure out exactly what type of eater you are and what is causing it, as well as to journal your thoughts and feelings about it all A meal plan with healthy and tasty options for breakfast, lunch, and dinner A guide to how exercise will help you to change and sample exercises to start with Start taking care of yourself. Make the first step. Read this book.Scroll up to the top of the page and click Buy now button. |
| brain over binge recovery guide: The Nude Nutritionist Lyndi Cohen, 2019-01-07 Is obsessing about food making you miserable and anxious? Are you an emotional eater? A binge eater? Do you have a mental list of 'bad' foods? Have you been on a diet for as long as you can remember? When you lose weight, do you always put it back on? Do you go to bed feeling guilty, promising 'tomorrow will be different'? Are you in control of every part of your life, except food? In just seven chapters of straight-talking, friendly advice, Lyndi Cohen shares the tools to heal your relationship with food and release you from fixating on your size, even if you've been dieting for years. Learn how to listen to your hunger and calm your mind. Lyndi is one of Australia's most popular dietitians, known as The Nude Nutritionist of Channel 9's TODAY show. She started dieting as a young teenager, unhappy with her growing body, and gave up in misery, having steadily gained weight for more than a decade. Almost by accident she become a mindful and intuitive eater, and along the way she gently lost 20kg. With over 50 deliciously realistic recipes (no 'superfoods' required) you'll also be inspired to eat well to boost your mood and balance your hormones. Change starts today. |
| brain over binge recovery guide: I Can't Stop Eating Sarah Dosanjh, 2020 |
| brain over binge recovery guide: Worthy As You Are Durgadas Allon Duriel, 2022-09-08 Connect with Spirit, Tend Your Inner Garden, and Plant Seeds for a Better Life You are worthy as you are, right now. This book proves it, taking you on a journey of compassion, authenticity, and spiritual connectedness. Durgadas Allon Duriel shares empowering tools and exercises, uniting cognitive behavioral therapy with spiritual practices to help you remove harmful self-talk and cultivate good habits. Learn how to healthfully process difficult emotions and experiences around shame, chronic illness, anxiety, self-sabotage, aging, and more. Guiding you through nine important realms of life, including body image, relationships, self-love, sexuality, and career, Durgadas leads you toward greater freedom within yourself. You'll also discover techniques for self-care and compassionate thinking, such as affirmations, meditation, and journaling, while learning how to avoid spiritual bypassing. With this book, you can shift your everyday thoughts from negative to nourishing and embrace your authentic self. |
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