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A BEST BOOK OF 2023 IN THE TIMES, GUARDIAN AND WALL STREET JOURNAL From Hadley Freeman, bestselling author of House of Glass, comes a searing memoir about her experience with anorexia, and her long journey to full recovery. From the ages of fourteen to seventeen, Freeman lived in psychiatric...

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.

Driven by the pursuit of perfection and the desire to truly be loved and accepted, Cynthia battled an eating disorder for thirteen long years. “Starving, Bingeing, Purging” is her raw, authentic story, told firsthand; a story not just of suffering, but of resilience, victory, and hope against all odds. In this book, Cynthia openly explores the complex issues of anorexia, bulimia, purging, and food addiction, and shares the intimate details of her journey to reclaim her life.

Hunger is emotional, hunger is spiritual, and hunger is universal. Overweight or not, our relationship with food is symbolic of our relationship with ourselves, and our hunger for food is symbolic of a deeper hunger that seeks to be understood. We are hungry for connection, for belonging, for understanding and for meaning.

Avery Hollins delivers a powerful, intimate, and unflinchingly honest portrait of binge eating, body shame, emotional hunger, and the long road to recovery. Confessions of a Binge Eater follows Ellie from her childhood in a small Midwestern town—where silence, judgment, and “being careful with food” shaped her earliest memories—into an adolescence marked by late-night rituals, hidden wrappers, calorie counting, and the secret comfort of binge eating.

This confessional self-help guide explores the complex emotional truth of what it’s like when food, weight, and body image take priority over every other human impulse or action. Activist author Marissa LaRocca’s revelatory tale includes her struggle with her secrets, including sexuality, and how she emerged as an outspoken advocate for gay rights and women’s health issues.

Greta Gleissner, a longtime professional dancer, dreamed her whole life of becoming a Rockette. Then she became one and she fell into the grips of a powerful eating disorder that began poison her life from the inside out. Something Spectacular is Gleissner's raw, personal chronicle of the devastating effects bulimia exacts upon her life during her time as a Rockette. As her disorder takes over, she begins to lead a dual life: happy-go-lucky on the outside; tortured by obsessive, self-destructive voices on the inside

Stories I Tell My Patients by Arnold Andersen, MD has been an intermittent feature in Eating Disorders: The Journal of Treatment and Prevention from 1993 to 2015. The complete set of 101 stories is collected here in one volume for the first time. Combining myth, metaphor, fable, tall tale, and inventive fantasy, they were originally intended for professionals treating eating disorders to listen to and share with their clients, though they can also be listened to and appreciated by individuals in recovery and their loved ones.

“An unusually fresh and engrossing memoir of both Hollywood and modern womanhood.” —Los Angeles Times In this searing, unflinchingly honest memoir, actress Portia de Rossi shares the truth of her long battle to overcome anorexia and bulimia while living in the public eye, and details the...

From Hadley Freeman, bestselling author of House of Glass, comes a “riveting” (The New York Times) memoir about her experience as an anorexic and her journey to recovery. In 1995, Hadley Freeman wrote in her diary: “I just spent three years of my life in mental hospitals. So why am I...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER Comedian Ian Karmel, with help from his sister, Dr. Alisa Karmel, opens up about the daily humiliations of being fat and why it’s so hard to talk about something so visible. “As charming and funny as it is poignant and thoughtful.”—Roxane Gay, author of Hunger: A...

Zoom in on any of the momentous occasions in Ryan Althaus’s life, and you’re certain to see a certain shadowy someone lurking in the background—his "friend" Ed. But Ed’s not quite the friend you are envisioning. Ed is short for “eating disorder”, and he has an obnoxious way of infusing himself into every aspect of Ryan’s life—but not for long!

Meaning FULL: 23 Life-Changing Stories of Conquering Dieting, Weight, & Body Image Issues is a blend of motivational self-help, memoir, psychology, and health and wellness. Alli Spotts-De Lazzer is a licensed marriage and family therapist, an expert in eating and body image issues, and a woman on the other side of her own decades-long struggle with food and body.

The gospel of God is the Bread of the Presence, and it reaches down into the deepest, darkest, ugliest recesses of the human spirit, the places polite chit-chat won’t allow, the places watery juice doesn’t open up, the places where crawfish and other creeping things of the swamps live. These are the places in which we run to the altar and find the bread, still warm. Places in which we begin to get full. Where our only food becomes God Himself. .

In The Elephant in the Gym, award-winning personal trainer and health coach Gillian Goerzen gives you a healthy and kind way to approach your fitness and well-being. Grounded in science, self-compassion, and Goerzen’s personal journey through the "body hatred battleground", you’ll learn to ditch the diet, reclaim an empowered relationship with your body, and become healthier as a result.

This “necessary book” (Roxanne Gay, New York Times bestselling author, Bad Feminist and Hunger) shares an essential look at the ways in which Black women are left out of conversations about “diet culture,” health, and wellness. In It’s Always Been Ours, eating disorder specialist and...

In a genre-bending book that blurs the lines of fiction and nonfiction, the author challenges the listener to identify their own truth about weight loss, diet, and body image by experiencing the truth of others. Fitness professional Renee knows all the stories, the secrets, and the struggles of people working toward fitness goals first-hand. Through her many clients, she's witnessed how people seek self-worth and purpose through the size and shape of their body.

Despite and in spite of struggles with extreme weight gain and emotional eating, a loveless marriage ending in divorce, falling in love and being left with a broken heart, the fat pants that once didn’t fit no longer define Dina Marie. With grit and determination, she managed to rise like the phoenix, more comfortable, confident, and beautiful - inside and out - than ever before. And you can too.

Many across the world suffer from emotional eating. Even more don't even know they have an emotional eating problem! Another issue is some people chalk an eating problem as nothing more than binge eating. So what is binge eating? Is a binge eating problem the same thing as emotional eating? You will find out that and more.