Karen R. Koenig, LCSW, M.Ed. - Healthy Eating
Karen R. Koenig, LCSW, M.Ed., an expert in the psychology of eating, is a psychotherapist, educator, motivational speaker, and author with nearly 30 years of experience helping chronic dieters and compulsive/emotional/restrictive eaters become “normal” eaters. She is a co-founder of the Greater Boston Collaborative for Body Image and Eating Disorders and a former member of the Professional Advisory Committee of the Massachusetts Eating Disorder Association. Her articles and essays about eating, body image, and other clinical issues have appeared in The Newsletter for the Society for Family Therapy and Research, Social Work Focus, The Boston Globe, The Boston Herald, The West Roxbury Transcript, and Attitude Magazine.
A graduate of Simmons College School of Social Work, she has a private therapy practice in Sarasota, FL.
Nice Girls Finish Fat
Put Yourself First and Change Your Eating Forever
254 pages (paperback)
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Many women put too much on their plates, both literally and figuratively. In NICE GIRLS FINISH FAT: Put Yourself First and Change Your Eating Forever, the first book to explain the link between overdoing and overeating, psychotherapist Karen R. Koenig gives women detailed advice on how to lose their extra baggage – both emotional and physical – by taking better care of themselves.
For the millions of overweight women in America, diet and exercise just aren’t cutting it. That’s because many of these women have emotional issues buried deep beneath those stubborn pounds, issues that must be dealt with first if weight loss plans are to succeed. In NICE GIRLS FINISH FAT, based on decades of professional experience, Karen Koenig offers on-the-page psychotherapy to help readers get to the real roots of their food problems. With her engaging writing style, she teaches women about the biological connections between repressed emotions and eating, and reveals the ways many women use food to stuff their anger, comfort themselves, and assuage their feelings of guilt and inadequacy – all in the pursuit of being “nice.” Giving “good girls” permission to love themselves first, Koenig offers thought-provoking quizzes and questions to help readers identify and overcome the habits that keep them trapped inside the cookie jar.
What Every Therapist Needs to Know about Treating Food and Weight Issues
Author: Karen R. Koenig, LCSW, M.Ed.
240 pages (paperback)
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Therapists often encounter clients with mild to moderately troubling eating and weight issues, less severe than anorexia, bulimia, or binge-eating disorder. They emerge as minor themes that lurk behind major presenting problems such as anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, trauma, and marital discord, and therapists who aren’t looking for them may miss opportunities to address them. Koenig provides practitioners with clinical strategies and therapeutic techniques to help explore their clients’ feelings about food and their bodies in order to get at the root of these issues. Packed with insights and practical tips, this unique book teaches clinicians how to help clients make peace with food and the scale and balance nutrition and exercise inn a healthy lifestyle.
Food and Feelings Workbook
Author: Karen R. Koenig, LCSW, M.Ed.
216 pages (paperback)
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Success in overcoming eating problems depends on learning to effectively and appropriately handle emotions, specifically: guilt, shame, helplessness, anxiety, disappointment, confusion, and loneliness. In this dynamic workbook, Koenig interweaves lighthearted discussion with mindful, reflective exercises to show readers how to identify, experience, and learn from these feelings instead burying them in food-related behaviors.
Writing from a foundation of cognitive-behavioral therapy, Koenig, author of the widely-used book, The Rules of “Normal” Eating, explains:
* The true purpose of emotions
* Why there is no such thing as a “good” or “bad” feeling
* How to stop taking care of everyone else's needs instead of your own
* Why inner pain causes you to focus on weight, food, or appearance
* Ways to trust both your body and your feelings
Rules of "Normal" Eating
Author: Karen R. Koenig, LICSW,M.Ed.
240 pages (paperback)
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Written in easy-to-understand, everyday language, Koenig lays out the four basic rules that "normal" eaters follow instinctively—eating when they're hungry, choosing foods that satisfy them, eating with awareness and enjoyment, and stopping when they're full or satisfied. Along with specific skills and techniques that help promote change, the book presents a proven cognitive-behavioral model of transformation that targets beliefs, feelings, and behaviors about food and eating and points the way toward genuine physical and emotional fulfillment.
"At a time when food fads and obesity are a national obsession, this book provides clear and practical steps to end the confusion about 'eating right.'" —Rita Freedman, author of Bodylove
