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Frequently Asked Questions About Eating Disorders

By Johns Hopkins Medicine staff

Eating disorders can occur in any age group, gender, ethnic or racial group.

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Words to Eat By: Using the Power of Self-talk to Transform Your Relationship with Food and Your Body

This book will teach you how to use word power rather than willpower to increase your motivation and overcome your struggles with eating and body care.

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Karen R. Koenig
2021
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Sick Enough

Patients with eating disorders frequently feel that they aren’t "sick enough" to merit treatment, despite medical problems that are both measurable and unmeasurable. They may struggle to accept rest, nutrition, and a team to help them move towards recovery.

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Jennifer L. Gaudiani
2018
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Eating Disorders Anonymous: The Story of How We Recovered from Our Eating Disorders

Eating Disorders Anonymous: The Story of How We Recovered from Our Eating Disorders presents the accumulated experience, strength, and hope of many who have followed a Twelve-Step approach to recover from their eating disorders.

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Eating Disorders Anonymous (EDA)
2016
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Help Your Teenager Beat an Eating Disorder (Second Edition)

If your teen has an eating disorder—such as anorexia, bulimia, or binge eating—you may feel helpless, worried, or uncertain about how you can best support them. That’s why you need real, proven-effective strategies you can use right away.

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James Lock, Daniel Le Grange
2015
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8 Keys to Recovery from an Eating Disorder: Effective Strategies from Therapeutic Practice and Personal Experience

For anyone who has suffered, their family and friends, and other helping professionals, this book should be by your side.

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Carolyn Costin, Gwen Schubert Grabb
2011
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Eating in the Light of the Moon: How Women Can Transform Their Relationship with Food Through Myths, Metaphors, and Storytelling

By weaving practical insights and exercises through a rich tapestry of multicultural myths, ancient legends, and folktales, Anita Johnston helps the millions of women preoccupied with their weight discover and address the issues behind their negative attitudes toward food.

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Anita A. Johnston
2000
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Loving Someone with an Eating Disorder: Understanding, Supporting, and Connecting with Your Partner

In this compassionate guide, eating disorder expert Dana Harron offers hope to partners of people with eating disorders.

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Dana Harron
2019
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Inner Harvest: Daily Meditations for Recovery from Eating Disorders

Find strength and renewal in recovery from eating disorders with the author of Food for Thought and explore your spiritual and personal development in recovery.

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Elisabeth L.
1990
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Talking to Eating Disorders: Simple Ways to Support Someone with Anorexia, Bulimia, Binge Eating, or Body Image Issues

When a friend or family member shows signs of an eating disorder, the first impulse is to charge in, give advice, and fix what is wrong. But these tactics-however well-intentioned-can backfire.

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Jeanne Albronda Heaton, Claudia J. Strauss
2005
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8 Keys to Recovery from an Eating Disorder Workbook

8 Keys to Recovery from an Eating Disorder was lauded as a "brave and hopeful book" as well as "remarkably readable.

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Carolyn Costin, Gwen Schubert Grabb
2017
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