Life After Recovery

A new book for families

Hi Everyone,
I've just received a new book that might interest you.

If family communication is an issue in your household, take a look at CONQUERING EATING DISORDERS: HOW FAMILY COMMUNICATION HEALS, by Sue Cooper and Peggy Norton, just out from Seal Press.  The book offers a wide variety of familiar profiles at risk for eating disorders -- the athlete, the perfectionist, the sensitive child -- but also includes triggers such as overprotective, depressed, or overidentified parents.  More important, the book offers tips for BOTH parents and kids to talk together about these issues to defuse and manage them.

One caveat: this book requires open minds and hearts.  I'm not sure it will be of much help if either parents or kids are in full-throttle denial, defense, or guilt mode.  Here is a very important statement from the foreword:
"Self-blame quickly becomes an exercise in self-absorption, diverting what should be a focus on recovery...There are usually multiple triggers and factors that contribute to an eating disorder, not one single cause, and it's a waste of much-needed time and energy to focus on the past."

We would all do well to take this statement to heart!

Great health to you!
Aimee

Beautiful weight

A friend just sent me this quote.  I just want to share it with you:

I love to weigh, to settle, to gravitate toward that which most strongly and rightfully attracts me;-- not hang by the beam of scale and try to weigh less,--not suppose a case, but take the case that is; to travel the only path I can, and that on which no power can resist me.

                                                                            Henry David Thoreau

 

In other words...
The weight that is truest and most powerful for you, that allows you to settle fully into your rightful gravity and stride forth on your truest path, that weight is also most beautiful which gives you maximum strength and support.

Be strong, be beautiful, be you!
Aimee

Fat Talk Free Week

Hi Everyone,
This just in! The Academy for Eating Disorders in partnership with Tri Delta  sorority is launching Fat Talk Free Week (Oct. 13-17), a new body image education and eating disorders prevention program aimed at women of all ages.**  Tri Delta worked with researcher and AED member Carolyn Becker, PhD, FAED, to create this unique, evidence-based prevention and outreach effort.

The 5 day Fat Talk Free Week event, although designed to target women in the United States, has the potential to span the globe, helping to draw attention to the damaging impact of "fat talk" on self-esteem and body image. You can participate in Fat Talk Free Week, or simply learn more about it, by clicking on this video link: https://secure.pursuantgroup.net/pursuant4/deltadeltadelta/fall08/dddselect/flashstory.asp 

If you choose to participate in the campaign you will receive an email  each of the next 5 days providing suggestions and activities that are designed to help counteract negative body image and disparaging self-talk.  The link provides you with a forwarding option so please consider forwarding the video to colleagues, friends, associates and family members.

You will also be able to access the link on the AED homepage at www.aedweb.org.
Imagine if for just one week we could let our bodies BE!
Cheers!
Aimee