Mindfulness for Binge Eating - Paperback

by Lewis David (Editor), Antonia Ryan (Author)

Overcome compulsive over-eating or binge eating.

Do you want to establish a more peaceful relationship with food and your body?

Are you sick and tired of fad diets?

Whether you over-eat occasionally or struggle with chronic emotional eating and food addictions, this book can help you. You need not know anything about mindfulness to benefit from the powerful but simple techniques explained in this book.

This book provides:

• An easy-to-follow eight-week programme based on mindfulness practices.
• 10 guided audio meditations to support you.
• Proven advice on overcoming the urge to binge eat.
• Strategies to build self-esteem.
• Techniques to cope with troubling emotions.
• Guidance on dealing with body image issues.
• Links to recent scientific research.

This book will help you to understand:

• Why you want to eat when you are not hungry.
• Why you have cravings for particular types of foods.
• Why you find it hard to stop eating.
• Why you judge yourself so harshly.
• Why you use food to manage emotions.
• Why food causes you so much worry and angst.

You will discover for yourself how much food and which types of foods are what your body needs. You will find out which foods you really do enjoy and that you can eat without guilt or worry.

The author has worked for thirty years in social work and teaching, supporting and coaching people of all ages and backgrounds with issues such anxiety, stress, depression and problems with eating. She has worked in specialist units and hospital settings, counselling clients with eating disorders and body-image issues. This book is a valuable synthesis of personal and professional experience.

If you want to free yourself from the misery of over-eating, guilt and shame, you need this book.