112 pg, paper, ‘08

This workbook is about the prevention and treatment of eating disorders in teenage girls. The goal is to help girls learn to view their bodies positively, accept their uniqueness, understand how eating behaviors develop, and build coping skills for a better relationship with food. Chapter themes include family issues, perfectionism, food plans, negative self-talk, overeating, feelings, boundaries, weight loss, relaxation, and much more. This is primarily a workbook for overeaters, compulsive eaters, and binge eaters, although anyone who is a dysfunctional eater will benefit. Readers are guided on how to eat in healthy ways and how to stay in balance, both physically and emotionally. Many of the chapters also deal with improving body image.

What’s Eating You includes 37 activities with worksheets, exercises, and questions to answer, such as fill-in-the-blank, drawing, and journal entries. Teenage readers will not only address disordered eating and body image issues, but they will also have an opportunity to know themselves on a deeper level.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Tammy Nelson, MS, has worked as a psychotherapist for over fifteen years. She is executive director and co-founder of the Center for Healing and Recovery in Norwalk, CT, and co-director and co-founder of the Ridgefield Center for Families & Children in Ridgefield, CT. She resides in the New York City area, where she works in her private practice treating anorexia, bulimia, and other eating disorders using group and expressive therapy.