Finding Your Voice Through Creativity
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Finding Your Voice Through Creativity:
The Art and Journaling Workbook for Disordered Eating

Carlsbad, California—Art is one of the most powerful inroads to psychological well being, which is why the pages of the new workbook Finding Your Voice Through Creativity: The Art and Journaling Workbook for Disordered Eating literally serve as a canvas for healing.

The book is designed with a “lay flat” binding and extra-heavy paper so readers can express themselves directly on the pages. It is organized into 58 expressive art projects and corresponding journal writing exercises that address specific stages of self-discovery related to disordered eating. Each task builds on the one that precedes it and is a foundation for the next.

A wide variety of topics are explored, including body image issues, relationships, life skills, emotions, self-love, personal transformation, and the relationship to food. Some of the tasks identify positive ways to manage stress and develop better ways to assert needs. Others will make clearer the origins of food and body image struggles, and reveal reasons why individuals continue to embrace unhealthy coping patterns. All use the creative process to lead readers toward discovering their inner voice and listening to what it has to say.

Written by board-certified art psychotherapists who specialize in the treatment of eating disorders, Finding Your Voice Through Creativity is an innovative workbook for anyone who wants to explore their relationship with food and their bodies in a new way. It can be used for independent self-discovery, or to complement professional therapy in both individual and group settings.

Finding Your Voice Through Creativity
The Art and Journaling Workbook for Disordered Eating
By Mindy Jacobson-Levy and Maureen Foy-Tornay
Price: $18.95
ISBN: 978-0-936077-55-0
Publication Date: March 2010

About the Authors

Mindy Jacobson-Levy, MCAT, ATR-BC, LPC, is licensed professional counselor in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, and is a board certified, registered art psychotherapist. She has been in private practice since 1980 and is a member of the American Art Therapy Association, Delaware Valley Art Therapy Association, International Society for The Study of Trauma & Dissociation, the National Eating Disorders Association, and the International Association for Eating Disorders Professionals. She is a clinical supervisor for Creative Arts in Therapy graduate students at Drexel University, and is on the ISST-D task force for writing the adult guidelines for the treatment of dissociation.

Maureen Foy-Tornay, MA, ART-BC, LPC is a professional counselor and board certified, registered art psychotherapist. She is also a counselor at Philadelphia University. She has been in private practice since 2002, and is a clinical supervisor for Creative Arts in Therapy graduate students at Drexel University. Maureen is a member of the American Art Therapy Association, Delaware Valley Art Therapy Association, and the National Eating Disorders Association.

About the Publisher

Finding Your Voice Through Creativity: The Art and Journaling Workbook for Disordered Eating is published by Gürze Books, a trade publishing company that has specialized in eating disorders for the past 30 years.

Advance Praise

"This workbook gently teaches you about what is wrong in your life and how to right it. Through drawing and journaling, you’ll begin to understand yourself from the inside out…You can feel the authors’ kindness and concern for your well-being and success on every page. They are there to reassure you as you cover new ground and to support you in the “ah ha” moments you’re sure to have if you give yourself over to the exercises the workbook provides.

Anyone can do this unique workbook. You need no special skills and you can go at your own pace. Discovering your voice through creativity is an effective way to heal yourself. Give it a try."

—Karen R. Koenig, author of The Food & Feelings Workbook and The Rules of Normal Eating.

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