Showing results for "Hunger" in Psychology & Mental Health

An insatiable need for sex and love. Periods of overeating or starving. A pattern of unstable and painful relationships. Does this sound painfully familiar? Trauma counselor Kelly McDaniel has seen these traits over and over in clients who feel trapped in cycles of harmful behaviors-and are...

Father Hunger is the emptiness experienced by women whose fathers were physically or emotionally absent—a void that leads to unrealistic body image, yo-yo dieting, food fears, and disordered eating patterns.

In Mother Hunger, therapist Kelly McDaniel revealed how the loss of maternal nurturance, protection, and guidance shapes women’s self-worth and relationships, and offered a compassionate roadmap to healing. Now expanded with new insights on men and Mother Hunger, first-born daughters, and...

When she was 54, Lisa Knopp’s weight dropped to a number on the scale that she hadn’t seen since seventh grade. The severe food restricting that left her thin and sick when she was 15 and 25 had returned. This time, she was determined to understand the causes of her malady and how she could heal from a condition that is caused by a tangle of genetic, biological, familial, psychological, cultural, and spiritual factors.

In The Mindfulness-Based Eating Solution, Rossy provides an innovative and proven-effective program to help you slow down, savor each bite, and actually eat less. This unique, whole-body approach will encourage you to adopt healthy eating habits by showing you how to listen to your body's intuition, uncover the psychological cause of your overeating, and be more mindful during mealtime.

The Hunger Fix lays out a science-based three-stage plan that shows us how to break our addiction to False Fixes and replace them with healthier rewards. Fun fitness activities, customized meal plans, and delicious, satisfying recipes are designed to trigger the specific neurochemical cascade that stimulates your body’s reward system, reclaims your hijacked brain, and supports your lifelong recovery.

In How to Beat Extreme Hunger, neurodivergent eating disorder recovery coach Livia Sara delves into the biological mechanisms behind extreme hunger, explaining why it happens and how to navigate it. Through a blend of science and lived experience, she tackles the fears that keep you stuck: uncontrollable weight gain, becoming "addicted" to food, developing binge eating disorder, and beyond.

Abnehmen, aber wie? Endlich Schluss mit emotionalen Fressattacken, erfolglosen Diäten, Jojo-Effekt und Co.! Du möchtest gerne Gewicht verlieren, doch trotz Diäten, Ernährungsplan und Sport hattest du bisher keinen langfristigen Erfolg? Immer wieder überkommt dich der Drang, in emotional aufgewühlten Momenten zu essen? Dann ist dafür womöglich dein hungriges inneres Kind verantwortlich. Die gute Nachricht? Das kannst du mit diesem Buch nun endlich sättigen.

A conversation about eating disorders; how to support someone with one, how to notice the warning signs, and how society promotes eating disorder culture.

Um programa de 21 dias, comprovado cientificamente, para curar sua relação com a comida e com seu corpo. Sem dietas, sem restrições, usando o cérebro como aliado. Quem tem dificuldade com excessos alimentares sabe como é se sentir culpado e fora de controle. E as razões para o descontrole são muitas: desejo, hábito, tédio, estresse, ansiedade ou o simples fato de haver uma caixa de bombons à vista. A fome fica em segundo plano diante de tantas sensações. Perdemos o contato com nosso corpo e não sabemos se o que sentimos é fome ou se estamos apenas engolindo nossas emoções.

A través de sus dolorosas vivencias infantiles, sus conflictos en la adolescencia y etapa adulta, relacionados con su aspecto físico, la autora confiesa cómo fue su proceso de sanación y de pérdida de peso; cómo dejó de esconder sus temores detrás de atracones de comida que al final sólo la hacían sentirse vacía, sola. Con esta obra, rica en lecciones de vida y mucha luz, la autora te confirma que es posible vencer tu obesidad física y emocional para vivir en plenitud.

This short audio presentation is designed to bring a clear definition of what hunger is, to help you to recognize hunger and its role in successful living, and to give you an opportunity to focus and reflect on the level of hunger currently in your life. This audio presentation has been designed using an experiential learning model developed by D.A. Kolb (1984): concrete learning, reflective observation, abstract conceptualization, and active experimentation. By taking this approach, we hope to cater to all learning styles.

Do you eat to escape from worries, relieve stress, or to comfort yourself? A more successful life with food means acknowledging and respecting your personal limits. These are the limits within which you know you can maintain control and free will, enjoying both your food and your dignity. You’ll find that the concept of limits also applies to various practices; some practices will work for you and some won’t.

El sobrepeso es uno de los más graves problemas de salud pública en la actualidad. Este libro explora, mediante la descodificación biológica, una forma de comprender este problema de una manera más integral y que en verdad atienda la raíz del problema, que en la mayoría de los casos es de índole emocional.

Cet ouvrage courageux et sans concessions est le récit autobiographique de l’auteure. Victime d’un viol collectif à douze ans, elle perd son enfance, son innocence et la substance d’ellemême. Elle grandit en taisant ce drame à son entourage, mais garder un tel secret ne se vit pas impunément. Pour survivre, elle se met à manger. Sans faim. Tout le temps. La nourriture devient son refuge, sa protection, son amie, pour combler son vide intérieur, pour cesser d’être désirable en érigeant une forteresse imprenable autour d’elle. Elle devient obèse.

يقدم مؤلف كتاب Unwinding Anxiety الأكثر مبيعًا لقرائه برنامجا ثبت أنه يصلح علاقتنا بالطعام وأجسامنا. أحيانا يبدو كأننا نواجه صعوبات مع الطعام كثيرة بقدر أصناف ما نتناول من أطعمة. إن اشتهاء الطعام، أو العادات، أو الأحاسيس، أو الملل، أو التوتر، أو القلق أو مجرد الحقيقة البسيطة بأن علية الكعك موجودة في كل مكان في حجرة الاستراحة طعام مجاني قد يؤدي إلى الشعور بفقدان السيطرة فيما يخص الطعام. ورغم أن القلق يبدو كأنه يحدث لنا بصورة خارجة عن إرادتنا، يُفترض أن الانجذاب إلى الطعام هو شيء بإمكاننا التعامل معه؛ ...- ثم الاستسلام أو .

The complete program for mastering your "hanger," from mindful-eating pioneer Dr. Susan Albers -- with 45 tips to turn hanger into happiness. It happens to all of us. One minute you're happily going about your day, and a few seconds later you're a snappy, illogical version of yourself. The...

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.”

Mindful eating. The concept of mindful eating is increasingly becoming popular in the modern-day world, perhaps, because of the downsides that have been observed with the opposite of mindful eating, that is, mindless eating. The good news is that there is help to fight problem eating and live a much healthier life. Mindful eating can transform our struggles with food and renew our sense of pleasure, appreciation, and satisfaction with eating.

Two women serve up the very serious issues of eating disorders, body dysmorphia, and the culture that spoon-feeds these destructive conditions to us with a dash of irreverence.