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- Special Pre-Order Sale: The Parents Guide to Eating Disorders
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- Featured Treatment Facilities- Monte Nido, Puente de Vida
- Gürze Book Club
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- Finding Balance
- New! Featured Articles
- Inspirational Corner

Summertime is here and as the mercury goes up and our clothes get shorter, more and more people get self-conscious abut showing off skin and are tempted to go on diets. This issue of the Gürze eNews is focused on helping you accept yourself just as you are this summer season.

• Our featured books inspire living life diet-free and acknowledging that you are perfect as-is.
• We have a link to an amazing new video-on-demand website, FindingBalance.com that aims to help disordered eaters find freedom to love themselves, and others, without condition.
• The book club selection for the month of July is our best-selling, French Toast for Breakfast, which encourages the no-diet/ no-deprivation approach and works to heal the emotional side of eating problems.

Remind yourself that summer is about having fun, relaxing, and celebrating good times with family and friends. Life isn't any sweeter 5 or 10 pounds from now: the sky will be just as blue, the sand just as grainy, and the water just as blue. Enjoy yourself and have a great summer!

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-July delivery.
	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

	If Not Dieting, Then What? Rick Kausman 224 pg, paper,'04 (Code: IFN) $14.95
Get a new attitude with this book! Enjoy food without feeling guilty, increase your eating awareness, improve how you feel about yourself, achieve and maintain a healthy, comfortable weight. Dr. Rick Kausman is recognized as the Australian pioneer of the non-dieting approach to healthy weight management. In this straightforward guide he brings hope and optimism to help everyone feel good and maintain a healthy, comfortable weight, without being deprived of food or quality of life.
	Feeling Good About The Way You Look Sabine Wilhelm 212 pg, paper,'06 (Code: FGD) $14.95
For men or women whose have excessive concerns about appearance-ranging from grooming rituals and poor body image to more serious problems like body dysmorphic disorder-this self-help program is a clear and practical resource. Based on cognitive-behavioral therapy with an emphasis on defeating negative self-talk, it covers freeing yourself from rituals, response prevention, getting at core beliefs, and medication options, using assessment tools, worksheets, and exercises.
	The Don't Diet, Live-It! Workbook Healing Food, Weight and Body Image Andrea Wachter & Marsea Marcus 256 pg, paper,'99 (Code: DDL) $17.95 $14.36 On Sale
This workbook is full of in-depth information, moving personal stories, and insightful worksheets to help people understand and resolve their food, weight and body issues.

We are absolutely ecstatic with this new cutting-edge text by Joel Yager, MD, the Editor-in-Chief of our newsletters, and Pauline Powers, MD, who is working on a new book project with Gürze Books!

Clinical Manual of Eating Disorders Joel Yager, MD, & Pauline Powers, MD 462 pg, paper,'07 (Code: CME) $49.00

“This is an indispensable resource that extends and elaborates on the newly revised APA Practice Guideline for the Treatment of Patients With Eating Disorders. Written by the leading experts in the field, it is a masterful production that not only covers assessment and treatment for anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge-eating disorders, but also addresses special topics such as athletes and eating disorders, psychiatric aspects of bariatric surgery, and the management of patients with chronic eating disorders. Concise, comprehensive, and up-to-date, this is the best book currently available to help practitioners manage these challenging conditions.”
-Russell Marx, Medical Director, Eating Disorders Program, University Medical Center at Princeton, Princeton, New Jersey

MONTE NIDO Malibu, CA 310-457-9958 www.montenido.com

Nestled in the foothills of Malibu on 2 acres of pine, oak, sycamore and fruit trees, Monte Nido, our residential treatment center, lives up to its name, “Mountain Nest”. Our home-like atmosphere provides comfort in a unique setting, and real life challenges necessary for recovery take place.  Our clients work on the crucial underlying issues that have caused and/or perpetuate their disordered eating and other dysfunctional behaviors.  Intensive individual therapy is provided along with group therapy, nutrition education and fitness training. The atmosphere at Monte Nido is professional and structured, but is also warm, friendly and family-like. Our dedicated staff, many of whom are recovered themselves, serve as role models, inspiring others to commit to overcoming obstacles that are interfering with the quality of their lives. We are proud to announce that we opened another residential program near Eugene, Oregon and also offer a day treatment program in Brentwood, California.

PUENTE de VIDA La Jolla, CA 877-995-4337 www.puentedevida.com

Puente de Vida is an eating disorder treatment center where therapeutic services are offered for adolescents and adults, including those with co-occurring disorders such as anxiety, depression, PTSD, OCD, substance use and other disorders. A private, six-bed, home-like facility, located in beautiful La Jolla, provides an excellent setting for the sensitive, inner work that takes place.  Puente de Vida offers a full continuum of services, including residential, partial and IOP levels of care.  We include family and existing providers in the treatment process. Puente de Vida's treatment philosophy addresses the symptoms as well as the underlying issues of eating disorders.  An individualized treatment approach includes traditional and experiential treatment interventions by our skilled, compassionate, multidisciplinary treatment team. Within the program at Puente de Vida, we provide medical stabilization, nutritional restoration and extinguish compensatory behaviors of eating disorders through the internalization of the structure utilizing milieu therapy. Puente de Vida recognizes that every recovery journey is different and complex and assists the individual in finding their unique path and support in recovery. 

Treatment Facilities, would you like to be featured here? Contact amy@gurze.net for details.

Clinical Recipes for Success:
Advanced Treatments for Eating Disorders
Las Vegas, NV
June 21 - 24 2007
www.BFIsummit.com or call 800 643 0797

Featuring support and advice from some of our most knowledgeable authors, each page on EatingDisodersBlogs.com is focused on a different aspect of eating disorders.

The author of our Recovery Support blog, Jenni Schaefer, has had a series of posts this month regarding what it means to be recovered from an eating disorder. This month's Inspirational Corner contains an excerpt from “Part II: Recovered”

We encourage you to visit FindingBalnce.com, the first video-on-demand web site for eating disorders. With more than 500 short videos featuring doctors, nutritionists, psychologists, counselors and others, the cutting-edge site gives consumers unparalled access to top experts in the fields of eating
disorders, nutrition, and wellness. FindingBalance.com makes it simple for consumers to find the information they are looking for, and has a number of topics for consumers to choose from.

Go to Bulimia.com to visit our new, extensive list of free, printable articles.  We have over 75 articles and book excerpts broken into helpful categories including Recovery Tips, Nutrition, Eating Disorders in Males, Information for Families, Professionals, and General Information. Articles will be posted each month, so check back frequently to see what's new. Read our most recent addition, “Recovery is Character Building” by author Aimee Liu.

By Jenni Schaefer, author of the Recovery Support blog on EatingDisordersBlogs.com.

“When I say that it gets better, I mean really better. I can honestly say that I experience true freedom from my eating disorder. To explain this feeling to the fullest, I need to introduce my eating disorder appropriately. His name is ‘Ed,' which is an acronym for ‘eating disorder.' I was taught by psychotherapist Thom Rutledge to treat my eating disorder as a relationship --- rather than an illness or a condition. Today Ed does not control my mind or my body like he did in the past. Years ago, if Ed said run, I ran. If Ed said eat, I ate. Whatever Ed said, I did…My relationship with Ed is absolutely, in no uncertain terms, changed for the better. There is that word again. For most of my life, Ed was the decision maker. Today, Jenni makes the decisions. I decide when to eat and what to eat, what to say, what to do, and so on…”

From “Part II: Recovered”

Click here to read the rest of Jenni's blog.

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