Healing Your Hungry Heart
$18.95
Recovering from Your Eating Disorder; Stories, Meditations, and Exercises for Health and Freedom
Author: Joanna Poppink, MFT
A resource to help you overcome the struggle of emotional eating, realize your self-worth, and live the life you deserve.
One in five women suffer from eating disorders.  While this issue is primarily associated with teenage girls, doctors report that a growing number of women are also developing these disorders later in life or have hidden these problems for years.  For women in their thirties, forties, fifties, and beyond, issues of loss from divorce, death, empty nest syndrome, marriage, and career pressures can trigger an eating disorder.
Eating disorder self-help.  You might find yourself juggling careers, marriages, and families, all while struggling with eating disorders for years.  Healing Your Hungry Heart is that friend you can lean on.  Psychotherapist Joanna Poppink offers a comprehensive and effective recovery program for women with eating disorders, based on her thirty-year professional practice treating adults with anorexia, bulimia, and binge eating.  She shares her personal struggles with you about bulimia, along with stories from a wide range of clients she has counseled and a step-by-step program that identifies:
- Early warning signs
- Challenges to early recovery
- Triggers to emotional eating
- Impact on sex life and family relationships
Real solutions.  This psychotherapist’s program includes journaling, meditations, exercises, quizzes, and resources to support and speed the recovery process.  For women struggling with emotional eating, this book offers hope, understanding, and real solutions.
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Reviews
“This book offers a variety of valuable tools and practical ways for those with eating disorders to nourish both their bodies and their spirits. It also offers real solutions and hope for its readers.” Christine Hartline, M.A., Founder and Director, Eating Disorder Referral and Information Center, EDReferral.com ― Reviews
“Joanna Poppink’s Healing Your Hungry Heart answers two questions I frequently hear from troubled eaters: “How do I begin my recovery and what can I do to sustain it?” Her chapter on the warning signs of an eating disorder is especially helpful to those who aren’t sure if their relationship with food is unhealthy or not. Other chapters gently guide the reader in an exploration of what is needed to recover from deregulated eating–mindfulness, selfreflection and honesty, bona fide emotional nourishment, and daily practices for skill acquisition and moving toward true fulfillment. I would certainly recommend this book to my clients and students.” -Karen R. Koenig, LCSW, M.Ed., author of The Food and Feelings Workbook and Nice Girls Finish Fat ― Reviews
“Finally–a book that speaks beyond the stereotype of eating disorders as the ‘little girl’s disease,’ reaching out to women who have lived with these devastating disorders for years, and offering practical, sound, and insightful advice on how to begin, and sustain, real recovery.” Marya Hornbacher, author of Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia ― Reviews
Joanna Poppink, MFT is a Los Angeles psychotherapist in private practice. Poppink has more than 25 years of experience in helping adults recover from eating disorders. She studied psychology at University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), Saybrook Institute and received her M.A. from Antioch University.
In her work and writing Joanna draws both on her clinical experience and her personal experience in healing from bulimia. She corresponds with women throughout the world via her website and Skype video in her ongoing efforts to support eating disorder recovery. Joanna lives in Los Angeles where, in addition to her private practice, she finds time for improvisational theater games, gardening, writing, travelling and having glorious, colorful and messy art experiences in her garden with the children in her family.
| Weight | 11.5 oz |
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| Dimensions | 5.5 × 1 × 8.5 in |
