Part memoir and part self-help guide, Mendelsohn combines her personal recovery from an eating disorder and expert wisdom as a therapist to illustrate simple, practical steps and suggestions for recovery. In informal language, she discusses how our perception influences our reality, the importance of getting in touch with feelings, the effects of various communication styles, how to diminish our vulnerability to triggers, and more.

CONTENTS:

1 – Are You Friends with Ana, Mia, and Ed?
2 – When Your Social Life Turns Deadly (Social Learning and Why We Act the Way We Do
3 – Mission Possible - I Think, Therefore I Am
4 – The Human Tightrope (Perception, Reality and the Life Lived Between)
5 – Forget What You Eat - You Are What You Feel!
6 – Communication Styles of the Happy and Healthy
7 – Shot Through the Heart (And Ed’s to Blame)
8 – Create Your Own Happy Ending!
Resources, References and Recommendations

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Susan J. Mendelsohn, PsyD is a doctor of clinical psychology and has been a professor of psychology for 14 years. She specializes in the treatment of eating disorders and lives in Cincinnati, Ohio.

REVIEWS:

“It’s Not About the Weight is an important and necessary book to add into our cultural conversation on body image and eating disorders in this country. Very well done!”
— Jessica Weiner, author of Life Doesn’t Begin 5 Pounds From Now

“This book is an excellent read for anyone who struggles with an ED, or knows someone who does, or who just wants to understand ED's better. The author communicates psychological terms into layman's words, so that the concepts as to why human beings develop eating disorders are very understandable and easy to grasp. In a very personable, compassionate, and often humorous way, she dictates how eating disorders are NOT about weight or food, but much deeper, hidden issues and internal conflicts that have often been going on subconsciously for years inside the minds of those who suffer.
As a survivor of anorexia in the maintenance phase, I am all to familiar with this struggle. I grow so weary of talk shows and magazine covers that turn eating disorder sufferers into "freak shows." The world still has a long way to go in understanding this type of disorder! I applaud Mendelsohn's efforts and courage to bring this topic out of the closet and discuss it in a very frank yet understandable way. This is a fantastic read which I highly recommend to anyone!”
— Diana Kline, author of Woman Redeemed