When Food Is Love: Exploring the Relationship Between Eating and Intimacy
10 best books like When Food Is Love: Exploring the Relationship Between Eating and Intimacy (Geneen Roth): Healing the Soul in the Age of the Brain: Becoming Conscious in an Unconscious World, Two Whole Cakes: How to Stop Dieting and Learn to Love Your Body, Hunger Pains: The Modern Woman's Tragic Quest for Thinness, The Dance of Anger / The Dance of Intimacy / The Dance of Deception, The Owl Was a Baker's Daughter: Obesity, Anorexia Nervosa, and the Repressed Feminine, The Best Year of Your Life: Dream It, Plan It, Live It, Hungry: Lessons Learned on the Journey from Fat to Thin, Beyond Blue: Surviving Depression & Anxiety and Making the Most of Bad Genes, Every Heart Restored: A Wife's Guide to Healing in the Wake of a Husband's Sexual Sin, When Women Stop Hating Their Bodies: Freeing Yourself from Food and Weight Obsession
Healing the Soul in the Age of the Brain: Becoming Conscious in an Unconscious World
| Author | Elio Frattaroli |
| ISBN | 0670861898 |
It is no exaggeration to say that psychiatry today is in imminent danger of losing its mind altogether," writes Elio Frattaroli, M.D., in this landmark book. What he is talking about is a medical model of the brain that denies the very existence of anything like a soul—based on big science's delusionary...
Two Whole Cakes: How to Stop Dieting and Learn to Love Your Body
| Author | Lesley Kinzel |
| ISBN | 1558617930 |
In the age of The Biggest Loser and the “war on obesity,” we’re pressured to conform to certain body standards at any cost. Sure, everyone should eat right and get exercise, but what if you do that and you still don’t fit into the clothes at the mall?
In Two Whole Cakes, Fatshionista...
| Author | Mary Pipher |
| ISBN | 0345413938 |
We live in an appearance-obsessed culture. Fashion ads, magazine covers, TV shows, and movies idealize a body type that is impossible for most real women to achieve. In this comforting, liberating book, Dr. Mary Pipher, bestselling author of Reviving Ophelia, offers advice, counsel, and practical...
| Author | Harriet Lerner |
| ISBN | 0965007235 |
And another one for the "books that changed my life" - shelf.
In my opinion, there is no force more imperative in our lives and no topic more fascinating than family dynamics from a systems perspective. Literally everything in our lives,
from the macro - historic and geopolitical developments,...
| Author | Marion Woodman |
| ISBN | 0919123031 |
I took a couple of months to read The Owl Was a Baker's Daughter by Marion Woodman. I'm not sure why it took me so long, but I think it had to do with finally realizing what a victim of stress I allowed myself to be for my entire adult life, going from a skinny kid and teen to a fat middle-aged adult and wondering...
| Author | Debbie Ford |
| ISBN | 0060832940 |
No. 1 New York Times bestselling author Debbie Ford's The Best Year of Your Life is a call to action to stop pretending that the future will bring you the life of your dreams and to instead start living your dreams in this moment and for the rest of your life.
Many of us spend our days thinking, talking...
Hungry: Lessons Learned on the Journey from Fat to Thin
| Author | Allen Zadoff |
| ISBN | 0738211052 |
Allen Zadoff spent years reasoning that a big, healthy man should have a big, healthy appetite and that his rapidly increasing girth was no more than a regular guy thing. At 350 pounds, however, it became clear that what had started as a little weight problem was destroying his life. Desperate to find...
| Author | Therese J. Borchard |
| ISBN | 1599951568 |
Therese Borchard may be one of the frankest, funniest people on the planet. That, combined with her keen writing abilities has made her Beliefnet blog, Beyond Blue, one of the most trafficked blogs on the site.
BEYOND BLUE, the book, is part memoir/part self-help. It describes Borchard's...
This book is not for someone with fresh wounds, which is who needs healing the most. Although a reader will be introduced to empathy for what her husband has faced, the book was painful to read because of an unbalanced amount of empathy handed to the wife. Comparing to another healing book I just read, the...
When Women Stop Hating Their Bodies: Freeing Yourself from Food and Weight Obsession
"Will empower all women to stop believing that our bodies are the problems, dieting the solution."
--Harriet Lerner, Ph.D.
Author of The Dance of Anger
In this revolutionary new book, bestselling authors Carol Munter and Jane Hirschmann explore the myriad reasons...
The Hungry Self: Women, Eating and Identity
| Author | Kim Chernin |
| ISBN | 0060925043 |
Pretty phenomenal read, fascinating for anybody in or near an eating disorder. Just recently finished this one and let me assure you, I had to read some sentences or paragraphs four or five times because I just needed to eat this shit up. NO PUN INTENDED. I absorbed this book and its messages. Very valuable...
Make The Connection: 10 Steps To A Better Body And A Better Life
| Author | Bob Greene |
| ISBN | 0712677526 |
After trying every diet program imaginable--from Atkins to Optifast--media giant and self-confessed junk-food junkie Oprah Winfrey met personal trainer and exercise physiologist Bob Greene. The rest is talk-show history. (Who can forget seeing Oprah wheeling that wagon of fat onstage?) Instead...
Finding Your Way Home - Soul Survival Kit - Tools For Discovering Your Emotional And Spiritual Power
| Author | Melody Beattie |
| ISBN | 0062511181 |
What does it mean to feel at home, truly present with ourselves, comfortable with our choices, and alive to the possibilities of conscious change? How can we develop inner balance and connection, keeping our boundaries clear while opening our hearts to those we love? With practical wisdom and insight,...
Eating Well for Optimum Health
| Author | Andrew Weil |
| ISBN | 0060959584 |
Hopefully, years from now, Eating Well for Optimum Health: The Essential Guide to Bringing Health and Pleasure Back to Eating will be looked upon as the book that saved the health of millions of Americans and transformed the way we eat--not as the book we overlooked at our own peril. It clarifies the mishmash...
Isn’t your desire to overeat really spiritual hunger?
“I can stop in the middle of a candy bar and have no desire to eat the second half if my stomach is not calling for it.”
- Gwen Shamblin
Do you eat and eat and never feel full? Rise above the magnetic pull of the refrigerator...
The Four Day Win: End Your Diet War and Achieve Thinner Peace
| Author | Martha N. Beck |
| ISBN | 1594866074 |
The woman Psychology Today calls "the best-known life coach in America" shatters the myth that willpower is an effective weight-loss tool and introduces a revolutionary approach to lifetime leanness based on a series of "4-day wins" that work with any weight-loss program
Substitute a good...
Women, Sex, and Addiction
| Author | Charlotte Kasl |
| ISBN | 0060973218 |
I had a therapist in my early 20s who asked me to read this and I refused. I had to be in my 40s, in the midst of yet another complicated and confusing relationship, to have the nerve to purchase it when yet someone else put it in front of my nose. It wasn't what I thought it would be - I think I balked at the word "addiction"...
Body Clutter: Love Your Body, Love Yourself
| Author | Marla Cilley |
| ISBN | 1416534628 |
In Sink Reflections, Marla Cilley -- the FlyLady -- helped hundreds of thousands of her fans combat overwhelming household C.H.A.O.S. (Can't Have Anyone Over Syndrome). Taking a "baby-steps" approach, she offered little chores to do every day, to wipe out clutter and feelings of inadequacy. Now,...
50 Ways to Soothe Yourself Without Food
| Author | Susan Albers |
| ISBN | 1572246766 |
Food has the power to temporarily alleviate stress and sadness, enhance joy, and bring us comfort when we need it most. It's no wonder experts estimate that 75 percent of overeating is triggered by our emotions, not physical hunger. The good news is you can instead soothe yourself through dozens of mindful...
The Twelve Steps & Twelve Traditions of Overeaters Anonymous
| Author | Overeaters Anonymous |
| ISBN | 0960989862 |
Required reading for any who find that food rules their thoughts. Suggested reading for those who do not. The twelve steps and traditions are essentially rules on how to live a life filled with generosity and peace. Not all heavy people are necessarily food addicts. Not all skinny people are immune....
Sexual Anorexia: Overcoming Sexual Self-Hatred
| Author | Patrick J. Carnes |
| ISBN | 1568381441 |
A first-time examination of sexual anorexia, an extreme fear of sexual intimacy and obsessive avoidance of sex, by the acknowledged leader in the treatment of compulsive sexual behavior and recovery.
Author Dr. Patrick Carnes begins by defining sexual anorexia and demonstrating how it...
| Author | Gail Sheehy |
| ISBN | 0345404459 |
THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Millions of readers literally defined their lives through Gail Sheehy's landmark bestseller Passages. Seven years ago she set out to write a sequel, but instead she discovered a historic revolution in the adult life cycle. . .
People are taking longer to grow...
