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An extraordinary, powerful connection exists between feeling and feeding that, if damaged, may lead to one relying on food for emotional support, rather than seeking authentic happiness. This unique workbook takes on the seven emotions that plague problem eaters'guilt, shame, helplessness, anxiety, disappointment, confusion, and loneliness'and shows readers how to embrace and learn from their feelings. Written with honesty and humor, the book explains how to identify and label a specific emotion, the function of that emotion, and why the emotion drives food and eating problems.

With so many women approaching their diets, body image, and pursuit of a slender figure with slavish devotion, The Religion of Thinness is a timely addition to the discussion of our cultural obsession with weight loss. At the heart of this obsession is the belief that in order to be happy, one must be slim, and the attendant myths, rituals, images, and moral codes can leave some women with severe emotional damage.

Whether it is suddenly losing a loved one, finding out your spouse is having an affair, learning that your child is using drugs, or discovering that a child has a major illness, shock is the body's way of saying, "I can't deal with this right now and I need a moment to collect myself." When people experience trauma, they can be both damaged and shocked. While trauma is recorded in us psychologically, shock is recorded physiologically. This is why we can have both emotional and physical responses long after a traumatic event.

8 Steps to Weight Control Power shatters widespread beliefs about the addictive nature of food and offers an empowering method for effective weight loss. Wellspring president Kirschenbaum shows that weight problems are caused primarily by resistant biological forces within us, our culture and a lack of knowledge about how to manage and overcome these challenges. To lose weight permanently, weight control seekers must become "weight controller athletes" and learn to mold their bodies in a healthier direction, just as athletes do.

What do Princess Diana, Gwyneth Paltrow, Brooke Shields, and Mary Jo Codey all have in common with 950,000 other women in the U.S. each year' They all have suffered from postpartum depression, a disabling mental health syndrome. In Happy Endings, New Beginnings, Dr. Feingold presents her unique approach for navigating the journey through postpartum disorders. Guiding women through the challenges, feelings and distressing symptoms, she leads them to a new view of the postpartum experience and how to make it a positive, life-changing event.

Veterans are suffering a "mental breakdown" epidemic, often linked to post traumatic stress from the terrors of combat, traumatic brain injury, and drug and alcohol abuse. The problems triggered by an excessive number of deployments, financial and family trouble, fragmented or nonexistent support systems, and increased domestic stress have caused a mass depression among vets.

Do you feel stuck, trapped in a cycle of loneliness, despair, discontent and sadness' Do you have trouble sleeping, have to "wind" yourself up to get out of bed in the morning, have difficulty concentrating and focusing on work, loved ones and family' According to a recent survey 54 million people do. Defeating Depression will guide you toward identifying, understanding, coping with and healing conflicts and issues in your life so you will no longer feel powerless and filled with pain. Finally, you will be free to find and enjoy happiness and satisfaction.

A New York Times-bestselling author and renowned Los Angeles medical examiner challenges the verdicts in America's most controversial celebrity deaths. "Dr. Thomas T. Noguchi encountered the best and the worst of Los Angeles-movie stars and gangsters, politicians and millionaires... . But by the time 'the coroner to the stars' met them, they were on his autopsy table" (Los Angeles Times). In his New York Times-bestselling autobiography and its fascinating follow-up-now together in a single volume-Dr.

What is it like today for the woman with a drinking problem' How does she know when she has crossed the fine line between social drinking and addiction' What can she do to help herself, and what can her family do to help her' Through an extensive and intimate series of interviews in halfway houses, women's groups, and with individuals across the country, Edith Lynn Hornik-Beer has uncovered the social dynamics that create problem-drinking among women. She has also visited with spouses and children who have suffered because of a wife's and/or a mother's addiction.

Pioneer heart surgeons and bitter rivals: The "thoroughly engrossing" true story of doctors Michael DeBakey and Denton Cooley (The New York Times Book Review). By 1970, the Texas Medical Center in Houston was the leading heart institute in the world, home to the field's two most distinguished surgeons: Dr. Michael Ellis DeBakey and his young and ambitious disciple, Dr. Denton Arthur Cooley. Their combined mastery in occlusive disease, coronary artery bypass surgery, angioplasty, and heart transplants was unparalleled.