98% of all diets fail because they don't address the crux of the problem: emotional eating.In this revolutionary look at the close link between eating and emotions, Tricia Nelson guides you on a path of healing. These seven simple steps will transform your eating, cure your cravings, and help you regain happiness, confidence, and freedom.If you are an emotional eater, binge eater, food addict, or sugar addict or suffer from any kind of disordered eating, this book will revolutionize your relationship with food. The obsession with food and weight is a symptom of something deeper. Learn how to identify and heal the root causes so you can stop battling your weight and start enjoying your meals, your body, and your life--without succumbing to crazy diets or exercise plans.Some juicy morsels you'll enjoy:* why "comfort foods" are so comforting* 3 hidden causes of emotional eating, and how to heal them* how to differentiate between physical and emotional hunger* the #1 weight loss mistake you should never make* how to manage stress before it drives you to the kitchen"In my 25 years of helping Americans upgrade their diets, I've seen how challenging overcoming emotional eating can be. Tricia's simple, yet powerful plan to heal the root causes of this problem will be a beacon of light to thousands of dieters." --JJ Virgin, New York Times best-selling author of The Virgin Diet and The Sugar Impact DietFood addiction is one of the toughest of the addictions. It's also a symptom of deeper issues. Tricia does a superb job of clarifying what those issues are, and how anyone with addictive tendencies can begin to heal, once and for all."--Hyla Cass MD, author of The Addicted Brain and How to Break Free

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 unable to stop. Many of us find ourselves stuck in unhealthy habits simply because we don't see a better way. With Mother Hunger, McDaniel helps women break the cycle of destructive behavior by taking a fresh look at childhood trauma and its lasting impact. In doing so, she destigmatizes the shame that comes with being under-mothered and misdiagnosed. McDaniel offers a healing path with powerful tools that include therapeutic interventions and lifestyle changes in service to healthy relationships. The constant search for mother love can be a lifelong emotional burden, but healing begins with knowing and naming what we are missing. McDaniel is the first clinician to identify Mother Hunger, which demystifies the search for love and provides the compass that each woman needs to end the struggle with achy, lonely emptiness, and come home to herself.

A yoga-centric approach to dealing with disordered eating—like overeating, food addiction, and stress eating—and the resulting emotional distress such behaviors can cause Yoga philosophy and practice are increasingly being used therapeutically to help people overcome disordered eating patterns—like overeating, food addiction, and stress eating—and the resulting emotional distress they can cause. Sarahjoy Marsh offers a program using yoga to address food-centered behaviors and body image issues. She illuminates the nature of addiction and offers a methodical approach to recovery that is neither dogmatic nor rigid; rather, it is compassionate, hopeful, and deliberate. Full of clear, empathic advice and photographs of the step-by-step practices, this book will help alleviate the isolation that people with food-oriented issues and body image problems feel; offer strategies for changing the behaviors; and give clear guidelines about the processes of recovery and the development of new life skills.

“Practical, sound, and insightful advice” to help you overcome the struggle of emotional eating, realize your self-worth, and live the life you deserve (Marya Hornbacher, author of Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia). One in five women suffer from eating disorders. While this issue is primarily associated with teenage girls, doctors report that a growing number of women are also developing these disorders later in life or have hidden these problems for years. For women in their thirties, forties, fifties, and beyond, issues of loss from divorce, death, empty nest syndrome, marriage, and career pressures can trigger an eating disorder. You might find yourself juggling careers, marriages, and families, all while struggling with eating disorders for years. Healing Your Hungry Heart is that friend you can lean on. Psychotherapist Joanna Poppink offers a comprehensive and effective recovery program for women with eating disorders, based on her thirty-year professional practice treating adults with anorexia, bulimia, and binge eating. She shares her personal struggles with you about bulimia, along with stories from a wide range of clients she has counseled and a step-by-step program that identifies:Early warning signsChallenges to early recoveryTriggers to emotional eatingImpact on sex life and family relationships This psychotherapist’s program includes journaling, meditations, exercises, quizzes, and resources to support and speed the recovery process. For women struggling with emotional eating, “this book offers a variety of valuable tools and practical ways for those with eating disorders to nourish both their bodies and their spirits. It also offers real solutions and hope for its readers” (Christine Hartline, M.A., founder and director, Eating Disorder Referral and Information Center).

After his father abandons him as a child, the author, now grown, begins an obsession with his father's life of crime that nearly became his own undoing.

We've all been there-angry with ourselves for overeating, for our lack of willpower, for failing at yet another diet that was supposed to be the last one. But the problem is not you, it's that dieting, with its emphasis on rules and regulations, has stopped you from listening to your body. Written by two prominent nutritionists, Intuitive Eating focuses on nurturing your body rather than starving it, encourages natural weight loss, and helps you find the weight you were meant to be. Learn: *How to reject diet mentality forever *How our three Eating Personalities define our eating difficulties *How to feel your feelings without using food *How to honor hunger and feel fullness *How to follow the ten principles of Intuitive Eating, step-by-step *How to achieve a new and safe relationship with food and, ultimately, your body With much more compassionate, thoughtful advice on satisfying, healthy living, this newly revised edition also includes a chapter on how the Intuitive Eating philosophy can be a safe and effective model on the path to recovery from an eating disorder.

Do you crave chocolate, bread, cheese, fries, or other foods? If so, there's a reason why, as Doreen Virtue's breakthrough book explains. Each food craving actually corresponds to a specific underlying emotion; so once you understand the meaning behind your particular craving and apply the information and affirmations within these pages, you'll be able to heal your cycle of emotional overeating. In addition, you'll read scientific studies about the mood- and energy-altering properties of each food, which will help you see how your appetite perfectly mirrors your emotions. This comprehensive and empowering guide will also show you how to give "food readings" to yourself and others, allowing you to accurately interpret the meaning behind many cravings. Constant Craving is a one-of-kind book that will give you the emotional, physical, and spiritual tools you need to make friends with food . . . and your appetite!