Anti-Diet
Anti-Diet

Author: Christy Harrison

Publisher: Little, Brown Spark

Published: 2019-12-24

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 0316420360

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Reclaim your time, money, health, and happiness from our toxic diet culture with groundbreaking strategies from a registered dietitian, journalist, and host of the Food Psych podcast. 68 percent of Americans have dieted at some point in their lives. But upwards of 90% of people who intentionally lose weight gain it back within five years. And as many as 66% of people who embark on weight-loss efforts end up gaining more weight than they lost. If dieting is so clearly ineffective, why are we so obsessed with it? The culprit is diet culture, a system of beliefs that equates thinness to health and moral virtue, promotes weight loss as a means of attaining higher status, and demonizes certain ways of eating while elevating others. It's sexist, racist, and classist, yet this way of thinking about food and bodies is so embedded in the fabric of our society that it can be hard to recognize. It masquerades as health, wellness, and fitness, and for some, it is all-consuming. In Anti-Diet, Christy Harrison takes on diet culture and the multi-billion-dollar industries that profit from it, exposing all the ways it robs people of their time, money, health, and happiness. It will turn what you think you know about health and wellness upside down, as Harrison explores the history of diet culture, how it's infiltrated the health and wellness world, how to recognize it in all its sneaky forms, and how letting go of efforts to lose weight or eat "perfectly" actually helps to improve people's health—no matter their size. Drawing on scientific research, personal experience, and stories from patients and colleagues, Anti-Diet provides a radical alternative to diet culture, and helps readers reclaim their bodies, minds, and lives so they can focus on the things that truly matter.

Intuitive Eating, 2nd Edition
Intuitive Eating, 2nd Edition

Author: Evelyn Tribole, M.S., R.D.

Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin

Published: 2007-04-01

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 1429909692

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We've all been there-angry with ourselves for overeating, for our lack of willpower, for failing at yet another diet that was supposed to be the last one. But the problem is not you, it's that dieting, with its emphasis on rules and regulations, has stopped you from listening to your body. Written by two prominent nutritionists, Intuitive Eating focuses on nurturing your body rather than starving it, encourages natural weight loss, and helps you find the weight you were meant to be. Learn: *How to reject diet mentality forever *How our three Eating Personalities define our eating difficulties *How to feel your feelings without using food *How to honor hunger and feel fullness *How to follow the ten principles of Intuitive Eating, step-by-step *How to achieve a new and safe relationship with food and, ultimately, your body With much more compassionate, thoughtful advice on satisfying, healthy living, this newly revised edition also includes a chapter on how the Intuitive Eating philosophy can be a safe and effective model on the path to recovery from an eating disorder.

Decolonizing Wellness
Decolonizing Wellness

Author: Dalia Kinsey

Publisher: BenBella Books

Published: 2022-02-08

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13: 163774031X

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"The author offers an empowering perspective for people whose identities are often marginalized in the health and wellness industry." —Manhattan Book Review Become the healthiest and happiest version of yourself using wellness tools designed specifically for BIPOC and LGBTQ folks. The lack of BIPOC and LGBTQ representation in the fields of health and nutrition has led to repeated racist and unscientific biases that negatively impact the very people they purport to help. Many representatives of the increasingly popular body positivity movement actually add to the body image concerns of queer people of color by emphasizing cisgender, heteronormative, and Eurocentric standards of beauty. Few mainstream body positivity resources address the intersectional challenges of anti-Blackness, colorism, homophobia, transphobia, and generational trauma that are at the root of our struggles with wellness and self-care. In Decolonizing Wellness: A QTBIPOC-Centered Guide to Escape the Diet Trap, Heal Your Self-Image, and Achieve Body Liberation, registered dietitian and nutritionist Dalia Kinsey will help readers to improve their health without restriction, eliminate stress around food and eating, and turn food into a source of pleasure instead of shame. A road map to body acceptance and self-care for queer people of color, Decolonizing Wellness is filled with practical eating practices, journal prompts, affirmations, and mindfulness tools. Ultimately, decolonizing nutrition is essential not only to our personal well-being but to our community’s well-being and to the possibility of greater social transformation. This is a body positivity and food freedom book for marginalized folks. It’s a guide to throwing out food rules in exchange for internal cues and adopting a self-love-based approach to eating. It’s about learning to trust our bodies and turning mealtime into a time for celebration and healing. It’s also a love letter to those of us who struggle with our bodies and a gentle plea for us to do the work it takes to accept, trust, and love ourselves.

The Wellness Trap
The Wellness Trap

Author: Christy Harrison

Publisher: Little, Brown Spark

Published: 2023-04-25

Total Pages: 270

ISBN-13: 0316315915

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AS SEEN ON CBS MORNINGS, THE NEW YORK TIMES, THE CUT, AND MORE SELF MAGAZINE’S #1 WELLNESS BOOK OF 2023 A NEXT BIG IDEA CLUB MUST-READ BOOK FOR APRIL 2023 A searing critique of modern wellness culture and how it stands in the way of true well-being that "will change the way you think about your health—in all the best ways.” (Casey Gueren) “It's not a diet, it's a lifestyle.” You've probably heard this phrase from any number of people in the wellness space. But as Christy Harrison reveals in her latest book, wellness culture promotes a standard of health that is often both unattainable and deeply harmful. Many people with chronic illness understandably feel dismissed or abandoned by the healthcare system and find solace in alternative medicine, as Harrison once did. Yet the wellness industry promotes practices that often cause even more damage than the conventional approaches they’re meant to replace. From the lack of pre-market safety testing on herbal and dietary supplements, to the unfounded claims made by many wellness influencers and functional-medicine providers, to the social-media algorithms driving users down rabbit holes of wellness mis- and disinformation, it can often feel like no one is looking out for us in the face of the $4.4 trillion global wellness industry. The Wellness Trap delves into the persistent, systemic problems with that industry, offering insight into its troubling pattern of cultural appropriation and its destructive views on mental health, and shedding light on how a growing distrust of conventional medicine has led ordinary people to turn their backs on science. Weaving together history, memoir, reporting, and practical advice, Harrison illuminates the harms of wellness culture while re-imagining our society’s relationship with well-being.

The Caregiving Trap
The Caregiving Trap

Author: Pamela D. Wilson

Publisher:

Published: 2015-10-06

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781630475352

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"The Caregiving Trap" combines the authentic life and professional experience of Pamela D. Wilson, who provides recommendations for overwhelmed and frustrated caregivers who themselves may one day need care. "The Caregiving Trap" includes stories about Pamela's actual personal and professional experience along with end of chapter exercises to support caregivers. Common caregiving issues include: A sense of duty and obligation to provide care that damages family relationships Emotional and financial challenges resulting in denial of care needs Ignorance of predictive events that result in situations of crises or harm Delayed decision making and lack of planning resulting in limited choices Minimum standards of care supporting the need for advocacy

The Wellness Code
The Wellness Code

Author: World's Leading Experts

Publisher:

Published: 2012-02-01

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 9780983947059

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Cracking The Wellness Code has been on our minds for a long time! Quotes on 'wellness' abound through the ages: The part can never be well unless the whole is well Plato Mankind has aspired to long life throughout the ages. He has long recognized that without 'sound mind' and a satisfactory 'quality of life' long life is not an attractive prospect. Philosophers and sages - including the unknown cynic who stated that 'Good health is merely the slowest way to die!' - have offered numerous solutions to this long-standing predicament. This is where the Celebrity Experts shine light on the subject. The Celebrity Experts in this book document the fact that healthy bodies and healthy minds are key ingredients to cracking The Wellness Code. In our lives, there are many different routes to "Wellness" for each of us. There is no panacea. Consequently, these Celebrity Experts focus on the most relevant areas, including: nutrition, diet and exercise, physical and mental health, medical considerations, career wellbeing and healthy habits. In the search for "Wellness" the Celebrity Experts discuss healthy living from the standpoint of balance, lifestyle and mindset. When you read this book, you will find numerous topics of interest written by those who have experienced positive results. The leading coaches in their subject matter have poured out their best tips that clients invest thousands of dollars to glean. This subject matter is set in a contemporary setting for twenty- first century relevance, so read and enjoy................ Mens sane in corpore sana. Juvenal (A sound mind in a sound body)

The Diet Trap
The Diet Trap

Author: Jason Lillis

Publisher: New Harbinger Publications

Published: 2014-02-02

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 1608827119

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Have you tried every diet or weight loss plan under the sun, but still can’t manage to lose weight and keep it off? You aren’t alone. Each year, Americans spend billions of dollars on weight-loss products, yet we continue to have the highest obesity rate in the world. After trying and failing countless times, you have to begin to wonder, “What am I doing wrong?” The problem with most fad diets is that they only attack the symptom of the problem, not the cause. No matter how much you try to deny yourself the food you crave, you always end up reverting back to bad habits. You might even lose weight initially, but more often than not you’ll gain it back—with a couple extra pounds to boot! In order to make real change in your life, you need to change the way you think about food, weight, and what’s most important to you. The Diet Trap offers proven-effective methods based in acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) to help you develop mindful eating habits, self-compassion, and a greater understanding of what it means to live a valued life. ACT is a values-based therapy that has been proven effective for the treatment of weight loss. Because ACT encourages you to accept and experience uncomfortable emotions—rather than succumb to emotional eating—it helps you to stay on your path to lose weight, while also helping you develop compassion toward yourself, no matter how much you weigh. Written by two researchers in the field of ACT, this book offers evidence-based solutions to help you fundamentally change the way you think about food, so that you can successfully lose weight, get healthy, and live a happy, fulfilling life without costly and frustrating fad diets.

The Slender Trap
The Slender Trap

Author: Lauren Stern

Publisher:

Published: 2010-10-01

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 9780970929709

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The Slender Trap is a workbook that helps girls and women understand the extent to which they are likely to have an eating disorder and/or other body-image issues, and what can be done about it. Each chapter contains a series of creative exercises that illuminate what is needed to gain control of negative behaviors and that will enable the reader to draw and write her way to wellness. The objective of the book is to enable the reader to appreciate her body for what it is and to treat it with love and respect.

Kabbalah for Health & Wellness
Kabbalah for Health & Wellness

Author: Mark Stavish

Publisher: Llewellyn Worldwide

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 0738709778

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Shrouded in secrecy and symbols, Kabbalah can be downright daunting for beginners. Mark Stavish bypasses the baroque ritual and cuts to the core of this esoteric tradition in "Kabbalah for Health & Wellness. " Blending Kabbalist teachings with energy healing, this accessible, user-friendly guide offers a clear and practical application of Kabbalah. Students can learn to use the Tree of Life, the Hebrew alphabet, the Middle Pillar, planetary powers, and alchemy to direct energy for physical and emotional healing. Guided imagery techniques, meditations, and other exercises anchor these concepts in daily life-transforming mere ideas into personal knowledge, power, and experience. Requiring only fifteen minutes daily, these practices are designed to enhance healing potential, inspire spiritual awakening, and introduce readers to the lifelong "Path of Becoming."

Reclaiming Body Trust
Reclaiming Body Trust

Author: Hilary Kinavey, MS, LPC

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2022-08-30

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 0593418662

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A holistic and powerful framework for accepting and liberating our bodies, and ourselves. Have you ever felt uncomfortable or not “at home” in your body? In this book, the founders of Body Trust, licensed therapist Hilary Kinavey and registered dietician Dana Sturtevant, invite readers to break free from the status quo and reject a diet culture that has taken advantage and profited from trauma, stigma, and disembodiment, and fully reclaim and embrace their bodies. Informed by the personal body stories of the hundreds of people they have worked with, Reclaiming Body Trust delineates an intersectional, social justice−orientated path to healing in three phases: The Rupture, The Reckoning, and The Reclamation. Throughout, readers will be anchored by the authors’ innovative and revolutionary Body Trust framework to discover a pathway out of a rigid, mechanistic way of thinking about the body and into a more authentic, sustainable way to occupy and nurture our bodies.