<p>This instructive and engaging guide provides the latest thinking, compassionate counsel, and step-by-step assistance to individuals who suffer from compulsive eating behaviors.<br><br>With more than half a million copies sold, Fat is a Family Affair is recognized as the benchmark text on family dynamics and eating disorders. Newly updated with current research, perspectives, and stories, this instructive and engaging guide provides the latest thinking, compassionate counsel, and step-by-step assistance to individuals who suffer from compulsive eating behaviors--specifically overeating and undereating. Judi Hollis is eminently qualified to offer guidance on this topic, having counseled families for more than 30 years and pioneered the nation's first Twelve-Step eating disorders treatment program. Key features and benefitsover 500,000 copies of the first edition have been soldfeatures personal stories that validate readers' experiencesideal for overeaters, undereaters, and binge eaters as well as their loved onesAbout the author Judi Hollis, Ph.D.., is a licensed marriage and family counselor with special training in addiction and sexuality. She maintains a private practice in New York City and teaches on a number of faculties. Dr. Hollis, who is in recovery from an eating disorder, has been counseling addicted families since 1967 when she helped to establish New York City's Phoenix House programs. In 1975, Dr. Hollis founded the HOPE (Helping Overeaters through People and Education) Institute, the nation's first addiction-model eating disorders hospital unit.</p>

Fat Is a Family Affair: How Food Obsessions Affect Relationships

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Hollis Ph.D., Judi

Diets & Weight Loss

Hazelden Publishing

Food obsessions encourage a system of isolation and loneliness -- fears that can creep into every area of our lives. This book closely examines our family and other relationships, and offers specific help for getting our need for love met in positive ways, instead of through food. This book is about giving up our secrets, taking ourselves seriously, and learning how to nurture ourselves without relying on food.

Spanish Fat is a Family Affair: A Guide for People with Eating Disorders and Those Who Love Them (Spanish Edition)

Parenting & Relationships

Hazelden

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