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Life Without Ed: How One Woman Declared Independence from Her Eating Disorder and How You Can Too

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Author : Array
Binding : Paperback
EAN : 9780071422987
Edition : 1
ISBN : 0071422986
Label : McGraw-Hill
Manufacturer : McGraw-Hill
Number of pages : 192
Publication date : 2003-12-26
Publisher : McGraw-Hill
Title : Life Without Ed: How One Woman Declared Independence from Her Eating Disorder and How You Can Too
Languages : Array
Number of items : 1
Studio : McGraw-Hill

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A unique new approach to treating eating disorders

Eight million women in the United States suffer from anorexia nervosa and/or bulimia. For these women, the road to recovery is a rocky one. Many succumb to their eating disorders. Life Without Ed offers hope to all those who suffer from these often deadly disorders. For years, author Jennifer Schaefer lived with both anorexia and bulimia. She credits her successful recovery to the technique she learned from her psychologist, Thom Rutledge.

This groundbreaking book illustrates Rutledge's technique. As in the author's case, readers are encouraged to think of an eating disorder as if it were a distinct being with a personality of its own. Further, they are encouraged to treat the disorder as a relationship rather than as a condition. Schaefer named her eating disorder Ed; her recovery involved "breaking up" with Ed

Shares the points of view of both patient and therapist in this approach to treatment
Helps people see the disease as a relationship from which they can distance themselves
Techniques to defeat negative thoughts that plague eating disorder patients

Prescriptive, supportive, and inspirational, Life Without Ed shows readers how they too can overcome their eating disorders.

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review by: date: 2008-12-28 rating:

Turning point for me
In reading this book, I identified with so much of what Jenni described. Although I receive semi-weekly support from both a dietitian and a therapist, I credit this book for both bringing me out of denial about the fact that I have an eating disorder and for being a turning point in my own recovery. After reading this book, I feel empowered to fight an eating disorder. After reading this book, I feel more compassion for myself and anger towards my eating disorder. I cannot describe how much of a turning point this book has been for me. And, for the record, I read this book a month ago and I am still reaping benefits from it. (It's not like I JUST set the book down or something and am now all motivated and everything).

review by: date: 2008-12-18 rating:

Really amazing
k...well...having had an ed it was good to read this and think of my ed in other ways....
its optimistic but truthful cuz recovery is no easy process. my mom read it and was helpful for her to understand somewhat of what im going through. Although this book won't aid in the recovery process (what book rly does) it helped me gain insight and hope 4 the future. I strongly recomend it to anyone who knows someone who has an ed because this book is about as close as u can get to understanding it.

review by: date: 2008-11-29 rating:

Wish we had borrowed this book
This book was a good look into the mind of a person with an ED but it's not one of those books I need to keep and cherish - or mark up and highlight or refer back to. My husband read a few chapters and gave up - too much the same. I keep trying to finish it, concerned that I will miss something important if I don't. Our daughter has her own copy and I think for her it is important - it helps her verbalize her feelings and really gives her somebody that she identifies with. But even she, a month later, has not finished the book. Perhaps down the road I can loan it out to someone to save them some money.

review by: mercy date: 2008-11-08 rating:

a MUST read for ED sufferers AND family.
When my daughter was first diagnosed with anorexia, and before we had even worked out her treatment plan, I jumped online to find info...Life Without ED was the first book I found and ordered, and before I could even read one page, my daughter claimed it, read it, and to her, it was a god-send. Jenni is so real, honest and vulnerable as she shares about her battle with and victory over ED. My daughter felt like she was reading about her own life in many way..she finally knew she wasn't the only one! and it encouraged her that there is hope. Once she started treatment, it was the ONE book each of her treatment team wanted her to read...and she already had! For anyone living through this wicked disease, this book is required reading and will keep the hope alive. Also a must for supporters, family, friends of those suffering from ED.

review by: WICHA date: 2008-10-17 rating:

change my life
this book changed my life...its one of the greatest book, it help you realize that you are not alone and the "feeling" in each moment! i love it!!!!!"!

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