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Summertime greetings to everyone! We hope for warm days and feelings of inspiration and renewal for you all.
We are excited to announce the debut of our new Gürze Therapist Directory. Over the years, Gürze has gotten thousands of calls from people seeking therapist referrals, and now Bulimia.com features a directory with convenient listings by state.
This month’s eNews features the following:
- We are running a pre-order special on our new book, The Parents Guide to Eating Disorders, which is now being printed, and we are featuring several other books for building confidence in girls.
- New to Bulimia.com: a Related Products page with helpful resources that Gürze supports and encourages you to check out.
- Our Inspirational Corner is taken from an EatingDisordersBlogs.com entry written by Doris Smeltzer about what she wished she had known going into her daughter’s eating disorder treatment.
Best wishes,
Gürze Books
The highly anticipated new title from Gürze Books, the Parent's Guide to Eating Disorders is almost here! Pre-order your copy now at 20% off for mid-August delivery. |
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The Parents Guide to Eating Disorders
Supporting Self-Esteem, Healthy Eating, and Positive Body Image at Home
Marcia Herrin & Nancy Matsumoto
324 pg, paper,'07 (Code: PGD) $18.95 $15.15 On Sale |
Written by a nutritionist, this book addresses childhood and teenage eating disorders, with an emphasis on home-based recovery. This second edition includes new information on family communication, medical consequences, advice for siblings, relapse prevention, food plans, and boys at risk. Also unique to this version are four chapters devoted to the Maudsley approach, the highly successful, parent-assisted method for normalizing eating, and the parent of an anorexic's first-hand account her family's experiences in recovery using the techniques described in this book.
“This is the definitive encyclopedia for parents who are concerned about their children's eating or weight."
- Cynthia M. Bulik, PhD, FAED Jordan Distinguished Professor of Eating Disorders, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
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Girls Rock! Just the Way We Are-NEW
Wise Teens Offer Tweens and Moms Advice on Healthy Body Image, Self-Esteem, and Personal Empowerment
Lisa Miller
88 pg, soft,’06 (Code: GRK) $19.00 |
Teen mentors, who have weathered their own storms, contribute letters and their stories in this informal book, which can be used in girl’s groups or by moms to read with their “tween” daughters. Real girls, who are content to be all shapes and sizes, offer encouragement and advice on topics such as disordered eating, good communication skills and positive role models.
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If you are looking for an eating disorders specialist in your area be sure to visit our new Therapist Directory on Bulimia.com and EatingDisordersBlogs.com. Therapists are being added every day, so check back often. Also, tell us where you need therapists so we can help you find the type of treatment you are looking for. Email amy@gurze.net.
Therapists, if you are interested in being added to our directory visit this link for more information and to sign up. One visit from a referral pays for the entire year’s listing! Pay by Internet, phone, or by mail.
Annual Rates: Rates increase to $125 on Sept. 21, 2007
Individual or Group listing: $125.00 $95.00 Special Charter Membership rate!
Group listing with Individual listing: $95.00 plus $50/ person
When you sign up for a Charter Membership before Sept. 21, as an added bonus for listing your practice, you will also receive a 25% discount code good on any one-time purchase made at Bulimia.com, including all books, videos, and subscriptions.
The Eating Disorder Center of Denver is the only facility in Colorado that offers partial hospitalization while providing the highest level of care for adult males and females with anorexia, bulimia and related disorders. Its partial hospitalization program provides comprehensive treatment on an outpatient basis, 7 days a week, 11 hours a day. The center also offers an evening intensive outpatient program three days a week, 4 hours a day, and outpatient services/aftercare for those patients who do not require a more intensive treatment program.
A multidisciplinary team of physicians, clinicians and dietitians are dedicated to helping patients bring about change through empowerment. Working together, they create specialized treatment plans that fit each patient’s physical, emotional, social, spiritual and nutritional needs. Patients learn to practice and internalize recovery skills until they can incorporate these behaviors into their way of life. For more information, call 866.771.0861 or visit the center's web site at www.edcdenver.com.
Santé Center for Healing offers hope, expertise and support through residential and outpatient services to those suffering from the disease of addiction and other behavioral and mental health disorders. The Eating Disorder Patient who would be a fit for Santé is an adult male or female who is medically stable. Beyond that, the psychotherapeutic work and spiritual understanding fostered through individual, family and group therapies develop an understanding of the destructive patterns and the obsession of mind and body issues.
We know treatment works! Individuals who have lost hope through compulsive cycles of abstinence or restriction in their addictive behavior, which hasn’t worked, can get better with the right help. Patients at Santé receive individualized attention and can access therapeutic care through a combination of treatment modalities, cutting edge therapies and a 12-step program. Relapse prevention is emphasized through developing solution-focused plans and working toward a healthy balance addressing problematic areas of vulnerability that could result in relapse. The interdisciplinary approach to healing, coupled with the extraordinary qualifications, and experience of the Santé multidisciplinary team form the clinical atmosphere needed to work with addictions and other mental health issues by empowering others to live a better life one day at a time.
Treatment Facilities, would you like to be featured here? Contact amy@gurze.net for details.
Our new Related Product links take you to resources that Gürze Books supports but doesn’t carry through our site. We are constantly updating our Related Products page, so check back frequently to see what has been added.
Recent additions include:
Photography project currently seeking participant referrals. This project has been submitted for consideration to be shown at a national conference in October.
Goals and objectives include:
- A visual demonstration that recovery from eating disorders is possible. An accessible way for a general audience to conceptualize day-to-day life after an eating disorder.
- Presenting a balanced view of recovery from eating disorders. Different people experience different forms of similar illnesses. This project hopes to show a variety of people living in recovery; people of different sizes, shapes, colors, and experiences.
- To stimulate purposeful dialogue, whether internal or interpersonal.
Ideal participants include individuals living in recovery from an eating disorder, free from active symptoms. This projects aims to represent diversity in recovery, all are welcome. Participants must be willing to sign a photo release. For any questions or concerns contact:
Caitlin K Scafati
413.977.6929
edphotorecovery@aol.com
From Doris Smeltzer’s “Advice for Parents” blog on EatingDisordersBlogs.com:
“It Would Have Been Helpful to Me If Members of a Treatment Team Had …
1. Told me that the eating disorder did not intend to go away quietly and that it could take my child with it.
2. Explained to me why my child could not think rationally—educating me about the effects of starvation, bingeing and purging on the brain and body.
3. Helped me understand that my child could not begin the arduous task of giving up her eating disorder until she was capable of rational thought.
4. Taught me about the normal changes related to puberty. I did not have accurate information about these changes. I needed to know that a female must increase body fat by 120% for menstruation to begin—that this more than doubling of fat during puberty is a natural, biological process in the female body. This would have allowed me to normalize these changes for my child.
5. Known that I was experiencing a great deal of denial and guilt about my child's illness—helped me understand that attempting to find the "source" or taking responsibility for my child's eating disorder wasted energy and time and was irrelevant. Reminded me that I did the best I could with what I knew at the time.
6. Explored characteristics in me that mirrored my child’s. Helped me examine and begin to change my own perfectionism, all or nothing thinking, and/or tendency to put the care of others before my own self-care, which would have made me better able to help my child do the same.
7. Modeled and discussed ways that we, as a mother and a father, could have celebrated our own body types.
8. Been real with me—genuine and emotionally present.
9. Encouraged me to grieve the family of times past, and the past experience of and relationship with my child. This may have allowed me to focus on the now. Helped me see how as a family we could work together to create a future that included more helpful ways of being in relationship.
10. Validated for me that pain is a fact of life, but that I did not have to suffer. Helped me develop strategies or find resources that supported me in ways that might have alleviated or reduced my suffering
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