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Full of clear, empathic advice and photographs of the step-by-step practices, this book will help alleviate the isolation that people with food-oriented issues and body image problems feel; offer strategies for changing the behaviors; and give clear guidelines about the processes of recovery and the development of new life skills.
Table of Contents: Part one, hunger, hope and capacity: 1. Hunger: what are you hungry for?; 2. Hope, a new lens through which to look ; 3. Capacity, four essential life skills --
Part two, Self-nurturing discipline (stage one) 4. Fervency, desire and discipline --
Part three, Self-empathy (stage two) 5. Finding faith, reviving courage; 6. Resilience and self-empathy; 7. Causes of suffering, sources of joy --
Part four, forgiveness and freedom (stage three): 8. Forgiveness and freedom.
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Yoga philosophy and practice is increasingly being used in therapeutic settings with great efficacy to help treat eating disorders. In this book, Sarahjoy Marsh, a yoga teacher, counselor, and meditation teacher, offers a program using the tools and philosophy of yoga for addressing addiction--specifically, food addiction, disordered eating patterns, body image issues, and emotional eating. She educates the reader about both the nature of addiction and the philosophy of yoga and offers a methodical approach to recovery that is neither dogmatic nor rigid; rather, it is empathic, hopeful, and deliberate. Full of clear, empathic advice and photographs of the step-by-step practices, this book will help alleviate the isolation that people with eating disorders feel; offer strategies for changing the behaviors; and give clear guidelines about the processes of recovery and the development of new life skills, which are taught in the book.… (more)