Fat is a Family Affair
This instructive and engaging guide provides the latest thinking, compassionate counsel, and step-by-step assistance to individuals who suffer from compulsive eating behaviors.This instructive and engaging guide provides the latest thinking, compassionate counsel, and step-by-step assistance to individuals who suffer from compulsive eating behaviors. 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.
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Fat & Furious
Dr. Judi Hollis, founder of the nation’s first eating disorders hospital unit, reports that in thirty years of clinical practice, she has never met a starving or bingeing person who wasn’t raging within. Why? What is the link between unexpressed anger and food obsession? In Fat & Furious, Dr. Hollis traces the rage back to the “mother-daughter wound”where, at the root of all disordered eating, is one painful truth—our mothers passed on denial about their own true pain, making healthy separation for their daughters impossible. And when daughters cannot claim their lives they try to sedate, control and suppress themselves—with food. Dr. Hollis cautions that facing the mother-daughter wound does not mean blaming your mother. The challenge is to fearlessly confront the ways the ways in which we are repeating the dynamics of the mother-daughter relationship in our lives today. Fat & Furious in not an answer book. It is a book that will teach you how to ask probing questions—the first step to self-healing. With the wisdom and guidance in Fat & Furious, you will begin to hear and trust your own inner voice—and you will never be hungry again.
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Hot and Heavy
This ground breaking book will show you how to end the continuous battle of yo-yo dieting, bingeing, starving and other nightmares attendant to women’s request to be unnaturally thin in hopes of being sexually attractive. Author Judi Hollis, a world-renewed expert on eating disorders and addiction, has discovered that most overeaters, bulimics and anorexics substitute food for sex—transferring their erotic desires to satisfactions of the palate. This book will teach you how to reclaim your own innate sexuality, and thereby heal your unhealthy relationship with food and eating. If you or someone you love struggles with overeating or not eating, this book is a must-read, as well as a potential lifesaver. If you have sensed something lacking in your sex life, Dr. Hollis’ instructions for healing the mind/body split will take you back to bed to connect with your spiritual Self.
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From Bagels To Buddha
“Judi’s life-changing story allows the reader to join her on a journey to self-acceptance.”—Wynonna Judd
In From Bagels to Buddha, a successful therapist, renowned for her work with addictive and obese families, uses her own story to illustrate her message that a spiritual life is the key to sustaining weight loss and ending food obsessions. Dr. Hollis tells us that the path to permanent weight loss has little to do with what you are eating or what’s eating you, but rather involves changing how you behave, how you interact with others, how you face your dark side, and ultimately how you face life on life’s terms. Only then will you start eating to nurture your true inner being, and only then will enough ever be enough.
“Dr. Hollis has found a humorous and shockingly honest way to follow the surrender process toward freedom. Her travels to distant lands and studies with a variety of mentors shows the self-acceptance that can be achieved by turning toward and opening up, instead of turning away and tightening up. With that process comes a more mindful relationship with food.” –Shinzen Young, author of The Science of Enlightenment