Excerpt from The Whole Body Workbook for Cancer

The most important advice is that if you have cancer, or any major health challenge, don’t to try to do it all alone. Carefully choose a team of professionals and try to weave them into a support net for your healing process. A complementary health care provider—whether a medical doctor, osteopath, chiropractor, naturopath, or acupuncturist—can play an important role on your team. The stereotype of an untrained quack exploiting desperate, gullible late-stage patients is much less common than imagined. Work with your loved ones too.

Excerpt from Eating the Moment

• Counting Craving Thoughts
• It’s Just a Craving, for Crying Out Loud!
• Craving-Control Chair
• Craving-Control Success Record

Patty James, MS, co-author of More Vegetables, Please!, shows how to make almond milk.

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Excerpt from The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook for Bulimia

As you think about bulimia nervosa, it’s important that you understand that each of the symptoms interacts with every other symptom. Typically, when you’re struggling with bulimia, your weight and body image have a very strong effect on how you feel about yourself. Therefore, if you believe your body isn’t perfect, you then decide that you’re not a valuable person, and you feel bad about yourself—embarrassed, guilty, angry, sad, and so on. This self-invalidation and negative self-evaluation leads you to feel compelled to change how you look so that you can feel better about yourself. Through the messages of Western culture (for instance, “You’re not in the healthy weight range” or “You look different from the women in magazines or on television”), you have learned to invalidate yourself and now believe that losing weight is one powerful way you can feel better.

Excerpt from The Binge Eating & Compulsive Overeating Workbook

Melinda, a patient, says of her binge eating disorder, “I eat and eat and I know that I should stop, but I can’t. I eat so much that I want to throw up, my stomach hurts, and I have to lie down. Sometimes, I feel like if I don’t eat everything I can get my hands on, I’ll explode.” Her words highlight the anguish that many people feel when food controls their lives.

Both binge eating disorder (BED) and compulsive overeating (CO) are conditions in which food is typically used for unhealthy reasons. People with BED or CO tend to feel powerless, and often lose hope that their behavior can change.

Excerpt from Biting Anorexia

That’s it. That’s it. My hair is stuck to my cheeks with tears. A whole part of me has finished. A feeling of heady liberation and utter redundancy. Speech night: over. School: over. My speech as head prefect to two thousand parents and girls and teachers: over. To all those who failed to support me, who told me to just give up and drop out of school to save myself the effort, who cared more about asking me to “pull up my socks” than how I was, as I stumbled, bone-thin and gray, down school corridors… this speech was as much for them as it was for anyone else.

Dr. Carolyn Coker Ross, author of The Binge Eating & Compulsive Overeating Workbook, on Fox31's Everyday with Libby & Natalie:

excerpt from The Smart Student's Guide to Healthy Living

After a long day of classes, the late shift at work, or just experiencing the mayhem of your dorm hallway, you retreat to the quiet sanctuary of your room. As you climb into your bed, wrap yourself in the sheets and attempt to fall asleep, you suddenly remember that you have a biology quiz tomorrow and you haven’t opened the book yet. As you climb out of bed, you tell yourself, “Missing and hour of sleep won’t kill me,” and you study longer. You nail the quiz and feel fine. But as those nights of short sleep become the norm rather than an occasional thing, you begin to see the effects. You begin to feel drained and tired all day. Of course, there will be nights when you will sleep less, whether it is after a big concert or when you’re studying for finals. But chronic sleep loss adds up to being more than tired and grouchy. Lost sleep can cause problems like these:

Excerpt from The Binge Eating & Compulsive Overeating Workbook

Two disturbing trends in the modern diet are also contributing to our culture’s food issues: our reliance on packaged prepared foods high in partially hydrogenated fats and the extensive use of high fructose corn syrup. These trends, along with a lack of physical exercise, have resulted in the current obesity epidemic in our country.