FAT is a Family Affair

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WELLNESS / RECOVERY
JUDI HOLLIS'S groundbreaking work on eating disorders has reached thousands with its positive, loving approach that offers help both to people beginning their recovery and to those who love them as well.
compassionate, and grounded, Fat Is a Family Affair is the guide to understanding eating disorders, overcoming them, and supporting a loved one facing the challenge. Hollis describes how an eating disorder—whether overeating, anorexia, or bulimia—symbolizes how one relates to the world. Grappling with issues of control and vulnerability, sufferers often use food to feel protected from the need for love, allowing eating to become a substitute for true intimacy and risk. Whether 50 pounds underweight, 200 pounds overweight, or struggling with the same 15 pounds for years on end, those with eating disorders allow food to become their most precious love object, serving as both nurturer and punisher, helping to mask neediness and avoid life.
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Fülszöveg

WELLNESS / RECOVERY
JUDI HOLLIS'S groundbreaking work on eating disorders has reached thousands with its positive, loving approach that offers help both to people beginning their recovery and to those who love them as well.
compassionate, and grounded, Fat Is a Family Affair is the guide to understanding eating disorders, overcoming them, and supporting a loved one facing the challenge. Hollis describes how an eating disorder—whether overeating, anorexia, or bulimia—symbolizes how one relates to the world. Grappling with issues of control and vulnerability, sufferers often use food to feel protected from the need for love, allowing eating to become a substitute for true intimacy and risk. Whether 50 pounds underweight, 200 pounds overweight, or struggling with the same 15 pounds for years on end, those with eating disorders allow food to become their most precious love object, serving as both nurturer and punisher, helping to mask neediness and avoid life.
With an honesty and humor that could only come from someone who's been there, Fat Is a Family Affair offers readers specific guidelines for changing their relationships, for learning how to express their needs and turn to other people for help, and for beginning the ultimate journey to wellness. Judi Hollis shares much of her own story as she moves from "The Weigh In," discussing how eating orders evolve, through "The Weigh Out," outlining how anyone can start saying "no" to food and "yes" to life. Vissza