Description
According to experts, 75 percent of overeating is emotional eating. For readers wondering why they are eating so much, comes a 21-day path to recovery.
Don't feed your feelings. We turn to food for comfort and rely on soul food to cope with everyday stress, anxiety, and everything in between. In Stop Eating Your Heart Out, professional clinical counselor Meryl Hershey Beck teaches us that contrary to popular belief, you don't have to eat your heart out.
Control your cravings. Different types of eating disorders are marked by cycles of compulsive eating. Rather than focus on weight loss, Beck teaches us to recognize emotional eating and out of control comfort eating. With humorous anecdotes, learned wisdom, and informational insights she teaches readers to control cravings and live in recovery.
Compulsive eating is conquerable. Consider Stop Eating Your Heart Out to be brain food. Disclosing her very personal struggle with food and overcoming binge eating Beck doesn't just use the Twelve-Step Recovery approach. She offers a multitude of effective self-help tools and assignments like:
- Inner Child work
- Creative visualizations and journaling
- Energy psychology techniques
If you want to learn how to stop overeating, and enjoyed books like Never Binge Again, Overcoming Binge Eating, or When Food Is Comfort, then you'll love Stop Eating Your Heart Out.
Author: Meryl Hershey Beck
Publisher: Conari Press
Published: 04/01/2012
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.60d
ISBN13: 9781573245456
ISBN10: 1573245453
BISAC Categories:
- Self-Help | Eating Disorders & Body Image
- Self-Help | Substance Abuse & Addictions | Drugs
- Psychology | Psychopathology | Eating Disorders
About the Author
Admired for her authenticity, Meryl Hershey Beck, a licensed professional clinical counselor, is appreciated and respected for her clarity and constancy in doing the hardcore work in finding no-kidding solutions to end the misery of addictions. She spent the first half of her life as a closet eater, gaining weight and feeling overwrought. Once she became active in 12 Step support groups, the bingeing fueled by anxiety, low self-esteem, and the desire to escape started to wane. Intent on uncovering the root cause of her overeating, Meryl began to incorporate other modalities in her quest for self-understanding. As a counselor, teacher, and author, Meryl joyfully shares these many tools and techniques that skyrocket personal growth and curtail emotional eating. Visit her at www.stopeatingyourheartout.com.
Jeanne Rust, CEO and founder of Mirasol Eating Disorder Recovery Centers