Best-selling author Karen Koenig’s new workbook is finally here and it’s receiving amazing reviews!  Here is what people are saying about it:

• “Her advice and non-intimidating style will be welcomed by those who have struggled for years with ‘expert advice’ for their eating-related issues.”

• “In a lighthearted way, Karen helps us to stop and identify our feelings in order to be successful in our recovery…this book is relaxed and supportive and can be read in chapters or just a bit at a time.”

If you have not yet had the chance to read Koenig’s first book, the Rules of Normal Eating, take advantage of this special offer as we are offering both books at a savings of 40% off the cover price!

Food and Feelings Workbook
A Full Course Meal on Emotional Health
Karen Koenig
216 pg (soft), ’07 (Code: FAF) $18.95 $11.37

Success in overcoming eating problems depends on learning to effectively and appropriately handle emotions, specifically: guilt, shame, helplessness, anxiety, disappointment, confusion, and loneliness. In this dynamic workbook, Koenig interweaves lighthearted discussion with mindful, reflective exercises to show readers how to identify, experience, and learn from these feelings instead burying them in food-related behaviors. (Click here for more details)

The Rules of Normal Eating
A Commonsense Approach for Dieters, Overeaters, Undereaters, Emotional Eaters, and Everyone in Between!
Karen R. Koenig
235 pg (soft), '05 (Code RUL) $14.95 $8.97

This little book is a gem for anyone who wants to tackle negative beliefs toward food, weight, and body image. Written in humorous, easy-to-read language, it lays out the four rules that "normal" eaters follow instinctively, as well as specific techniques for change. Readers will learn to identify and change their irrational beliefs and learn to feel "normal" around food. Anyone who has used food to stuff or starve difficult emotions will love this book!

From The Food and Feelings Workbook by Karen Koenig:

“Too often we ignore the physical manifestations of emotions rather than recognize them for what they are­–messengers sending out a bulletin about what’s going on inside of us. Here are some examples. If at the last minute you bow out of driving your best friend to the airport because you decide to sleep in, you may suffer a gnawing, nagging feeling that you did something wrong. If you’re about to read a letter from the college you’re dying to get into and your sister asks you a dumb question. You may feel disconnected from reality and not even hear her. These are all examples of physical reactions that accompany internal distress.

Your response to danger is biologically programmed, and of necessity, highly attention-grabbing in order to keep you alive. When you perceive a threat, your senses automatically perk up, your breathing quickens, and blood flows to your heart, making it pound. The emotions you have when your you’re robbed at knifepoint are probably a great deal easier to identify than what you feeling on Saturday night with nothing to do–antsy, mildly anxious, tired, empty, lonely, alienated, sad, or bored.

Some emotions broadcast themselves loud and clear, while others barely whisper, so you’ll have to become very still and listen closely to what’s going on inside of your body to discover what emotion may be struggling to surface.
If you want to disengage feeding from feeling, you have to experience the physical sensations that arise within you, no matter how uncomfortable.”

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