Helpful, thought provoking

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	• It's Not about Food: Change Your Mind; Change Your Life; End Your Obsession with Food and Weight Carol Emery Normandi, Laurelee Roark Perigee Trade, 1999 - 240 pages average customer review:based on 16 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

The Book is Good

This book was a gift given to me by a friend years ago. I own and have read about twelve books on the topic. Out of all of them, this has been by far the best. It's the kind of book that takes you on a journey inside yourself. If you have any eating issues then this book is a worthwhile read.

Helpful, thought provoking

This book relates the personal journeys of two women, Carol and Laurelee, with their struggles to overcome obsession with food, dieting and negative body image. In the course of telling their stories and the stories of many women they have worked with, a very powerful set of lessons unfolds. I read the book over a period of months, reading, re-reading, putting it down and then picking it up. There are meditations and exercises in the book that are very helpful. For example, they have an exercise in the book about sending loving thoughts to parts of your body that you dislike. What a concept! The basic message is that an eating disorder is a way of coping with life and by looking deeply at your relationship with food you can learn what it is you really need in life, pursue that, and food will get back into a normal perspective. I highly recommend this book to anyone who has issues with food or loves someone who has issues with food. That includes just about everyone I think!

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AMAZING!

This is a must for anyone struggling with food addictions. This book was recommended by a counselor and it was the best way I found to help me understand the deeper issues I was facing, and ignoring. After reading this book, I find myself ready to take on the deeper issues that have been gnawing away at my self esteem and self image for YEARS. I never realized how much damage I was subconsciously doing to myself simply because I was unaware of the things I was hiding from or didn't know how to handle on my own. Food was always an easy way to comfort myself when I felt overwhelmed. Thanks to this book, I'm now aware of why I do what I do and can actually help myself without always turning to food. It's a journey, not a destination. This book has helped me on my journey to be free of "diets" and start living with awareness, self-love, and the confidence to know how to help myself without relying on extrinsic comforts like food. This book has some very deep messages if you are open and honest with yourself. I took the book one chapter and one step at a time. It is a resource I will always carry with me.

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End Your Obsessions

While the authors specialize in dealing with people who have issues with Overeating, I felt that the book was very useful in helping me address my issues with anorexia. The book challenges you to dig into the issues behind why you're involved in a practice of eating (for me, restricting) and to understand how you're using food to substitute for other methods of dealing with your problems. I would highly recommend this book to anyone on the road to recovery from and Eating Disorder.

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"Women who read this book will be inspired to throw away their diets and scales and pick up on the nurturing, caring voice presented in these pages." --Jane R. Hirschmann and Carol H. Munter, authors of Overcoming Overeating.

Carol Emery Normandi and Laurelee Roark founded the nonprofit organization Beyond Hunger, Inc. because they had each struggled for years with eating disorders--and discovered that most of the programs available couldn't provide true, permanent recovery. To achieve that, they found they had to address the physical, emotional, and spiritual wounds that lay at the core of their unhealthy eating behavior--to go beyond the hunger of their physical bodies and meet the hunger that resided in their very souls. The techniques used in the Beyond Hunger workshops have helped many women change their minds about food and weight--and change their lives in the process. This compassionate, supportive book shows how it can be done--and offers to help women put an end to the rollercoaster of dieting and bingeing once and for all.

* Includes a foreword by the authors of the bestseller Overcoming Overeating

* "Normandi and Roark are like patient coaches detaching women from their obsessions with food, deprogramming societal and family messages about acceptable weight, offering tools and excercises to transform destructive behaviors into opportunities for self-reflection."--San Jose Mercury News

"It's Not About Food is an important part of the growing movement to return women's bodies to their rightful owners." --Naomi Wolf, author of The Beauty Myth

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