186 pages (paperback) '01

This book teaches young women the language of healthy body image and natural eating and gives parents the skills to guide their daughters toward self-esteem and contentment. This much-needed book will help girls understand their feelings and learn to love and care for their bodies.

Carol Emery Normandi and Lauralee Roark developed this book based on their ongoing workshops and the feedback of hundreds of young women. They look at the behaviors that may lead to eating disorders and the cultural, emotional, and physical reasons girls obsess about weight and eating. They go on to offer girls and their parents a map and a method for finding a realistic and livable balance. Stories and quotations from girls who have struggled with eating disorders give the book immediacy, and exercises and writing suggestions steer girls toward a healthy self-image and wholesome eating patterns.

CONTENTS:

1 – Getting Over the Obsession with Food and Weight
2 – Telling Your Story
3 – To Be Aware
4 – It’s the Only Body You Have
5 – Emotions Gone Wild
6 – In the Spirit
7 – Tell It Like It Is
8 – What’s Up with Boys and Eating Disorders?
9 – Trusting Your Process

ABOUT THE AUTHORS:

Carol Emery Normandi, MS, MFT and Laurelee Roark, MA, CCHT are cofounders of Beyond Hunger,  a nonprofit organization that provides support groups, workshops, and education for individuals with eating disorders and body image disturbances. They are the authors of It’s Not About Food, a book for adult women who struggle with food and weight.

REVIEWS:

“An important book for any teen who has ever struggled with an eating disorder.”
— Naomi Wolf, author of The Beauty Myth

“If you’re smart, you’ll read this book, get over it, then pass it on to your girlfriends and your mom. Life changing advice!” — Jane R. Hirschman and Carol Munter, authors of Overcoming Overeating and When Women Stop Hating Their Bodies