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8 keys to recovery from an eating disorder : effective strategies from therapeutic practice and personal experience / Carolyn Costin, Gwen Schubert Grabb.

by Costin, Carolyn.

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W. W. Norton & Co., c2012.

616.8526 C842ek

Eating disorders -- Treatment.

9780393706956 (pbk.)

0393706958 (pbk.)

Alternate title:

Eight keys to recovery from an eating disorder

xiii, 278 p. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-264) and index.

Key 1. Motivation, patience, and hope -- Key 2. Strengthen your healthy self to heal your eating disorder self -- Key 3. It's not about the food -- Key 4. Feel your feelings and challenge your thoughts -- Key 5. It is about the food -- Key 6. Changing your behaviors -- Key 7. Reach out to people rather than your eating disorder -- Key 8. Finding meaning and purpose.

If you restrict, binge, purge, excessively diet or weigh yourself, exercise compulsively, or engage routinely and obsessively in any other food or weight related behaviors, this book will help you find the road to recovery. The authors, one a former patient of the other, both have their own histories battling the disorder. Interweaving personal narrative with the perspective of their own therapist-client relationship, their insights bring an unparalleled depth of awareness into just what it takes to successfully beat this clinical issue.

Grabb, Gwen Schubert.

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