Life Without Ed: How One Woman Declared Independence from Her Eating Disorder and How You Can Tooby Jenni Schaefer, Thom Rutledge |
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- Title:
Life Without Ed: How One Woman Declared Independence from Her Eating Disorder and How You Can Too
- Reading Level: Paperback
- Binding: Paperback
- No. of Pages: 192
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- Publisher: McGraw-Hill
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- ISBN: 0071422986
- Product Size (W x H x L) inches: 5.6 x 0.7 x 8.4
- Shipping Weight: 0.7
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Life Without Ed: How One Woman Declared Independence from Her Eating Disorder and How You Can Too Review
Source: Product DescriptionA 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.
Life Without Ed: How One Woman Declared Independence from Her Eating Disorder and How You Can Too Customer Reviews
Number of reviews: 66 Average Rating:A Fellow Amazon Customer Reviewed this title on: 2010-09-07 and rated it
0 Person found this review helpful, Book
If you have a eating disorder or know someone who does this book is awesome. It's a must read!!!
A Fellow Amazon Customer Reviewed this title on: 2010-05-06 and rated it
1 Person found this review helpful, Good Book, Plenty Of Good Info
A great good that gives a good understand about how people can easily get into eating disorders. My wife has been dealing with this issue for several years now. I haven't finished the book, but I will write another review when I finish so I can let you all know my insights to this matter.
A Fellow Amazon Customer Reviewed this title on: 2010-04-21 and rated it
2 People found this review helpful, Helpful For Friends And Family, Not Those Suffering
Life Without Ed is a wonderful book if you are trying explain to a loved one what having an eating disorder is like. As a recovering anorexic and bulimic, I would recommend this only to loved ones, not to women suffering from a disorder. While the book gives glimmers of hope, it is also very triggering. There were often parts in the book where Jennie would describe an eating disordered behavior that I had not tried before. If you are looking for a recovery book, this is not for you. I would recommend "Eating in the Light of the Moon" or "Goodbye Ed, Hello Me".
A Fellow Amazon Customer Reviewed this title on: 2010-04-09 and rated it
0 Person found this review helpful, Excellent Book For All Eating Disorder Sufferers
Jenni writes with candid insight into the experience of living with and recovering from an eating disorder. A must read for all who seek to recover from eating disorders! Exceptionally inspirational!
~Jacquelyn Ekern, MS, LPC
Director @ Eating Disorder Hope
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A Fellow Amazon Customer Reviewed this title on: 2009-12-22 and rated it
0 Person found this review helpful, Wonderful!
I love this book! It is the only book that I have read that fully explains how eating disorder thinking is! I had my eating disorder for 7 years and have been in recovery for 4 years. I feel like this is well written and helpful. I am a therapist and this book also helps when working with those with eating disorders.
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