Life Without Ed: How One Woman Declared Independence from Her Eating Disorder and How You Can Too | 
| Authors: Jenni Schaefer, Thom Rutledge
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
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Pages: 192
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Dimensions (in): 8.1 x 5.2 x 0.7
ISBN: 0071422986
Dewey Decimal Number: 616.85260092
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Publication Date: December 26, 2003
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A unique new approach to treating eating disorders Eight million women in the United States suffer from anorexia nervosa and/or bulimia. For these women, the road to recovery is a rocky one. Many succumb to their eating disorders. Life Without Ed offers hope to all those who suffer from these often deadly disorders. For years, author Jennifer Schaefer lived with both anorexia and bulimia. She credits her successful recovery to the technique she learned from her psychologist, Thom Rutledge. This groundbreaking book illustrates Rutledge's technique. As in the author's case, readers are encouraged to think of an eating disorder as if it were a distinct being with a personality of its own. Further, they are encouraged to treat the disorder as a relationship rather than as a condition. Schaefer named her eating disorder Ed; her recovery involved "breaking up" with Ed - Shares the points of view of both patient and therapist in this approach to treatment
- Helps people see the disease as a relationship from which they can distance themselves
- Techniques to defeat negative thoughts that plague eating disorder patients
Prescriptive, supportive, and inspirational, Life Without Ed shows readers how they too can overcome their eating disorders.
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A unique new approach to treating eating disorders Eight million women in the United States suffer from anorexia nervosa and/or bulimia. For these women, the road to recovery is a rocky one. Many succumb to their eating disorders. Life Without Ed offers hope to all those who suffer from these often deadly disorders. For years, author Jennifer Schaefer lived with both anorexia and bulimia. She credits her successful recovery to the technique she learned from her psychologist, Thom Rutledge. This groundbreaking book illustrates Rutledge's technique. As in the author's case, readers are encouraged to think of an eating disorder as if it were a distinct being with a personality of its own. Further, they are encouraged to treat the disorder as a relationship rather than as a condition. Schaefer named her eating disorder Ed; her recovery involved ""breaking up"" with Ed Shares the points of view of both patient and therapist in this approach to treatment Helps people see the disease as a relationship from which they can distance themselves Techniques to defeat negative thoughts that plague eating disorder patients Prescriptive, supportive, and inspirational, Life Without Ed shows readers how they too can overcome their eating disorders.
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 Excellent Resource May 31, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I find this book an excellent resource for anyone who has an eating disorder or knows somebody who does. It offered me an insight into what my ED daughter is feeling and battling internally and gave me very practical ideas on how to support her and talk with her. She uses the same approach that Jenni uses and talks back to the emotional 'voice' that an ED can present and this approach is extremely useful in her recovery.
lifewithouted April 26, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Life Without Ed: How One Woman Declared Independence from Her Eating Disorder and How You Can Too
Good book. Recommended. Gave it as gift. Delivery prompt.
The best book out there for people with eating disorders! March 1, 2008
As a nutritionist specializing in eating disorders, I am always looking for books to recommend to patients. Life Without Ed is the only book I know of that truly tells the story of how the writer recovered from her eating disorder. Too many of the books out there devote most of their pages to describing the horrors of the eating disorder, but say very little about how the author recovered. Life Without Ed is different. Jenni describes in helpful detail how she recovered, what worked, what didn't. If you want help recovering from your eating disorder, this is the book for you. This is also the book that should be on every professional's bookshelf. Marcia Herrin, EdD, MPH, RD, LD, author of The Parent's Guide to Eating Disorders: Supporting Self-Esteem, Healthy Eating, and Positive Body Image at Home.
Good for whatever ails ya! January 15, 2008
Ed is anybody's bad internal object - in my case (100 lbs overweight) Ed is the exact voice of my mother. Or, as comedian Kathy Griffith might say, Ed is the devil! SO USEFUL to have this finally quantified, their entire script written out! Takes the wind out of satan's sails... Sorry about going all huckabee on yer face - this book nails it.
Changed My Life December 28, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book literally changed and saved my life. I read it in the last hospital I was in being treated for an eating disorder. Never had I read anything I could relate so much too. The way Jenni seperated herself from her eating disorder was a new way that I had never tried and became interested in. After practicing and reading the book several times I became pretty good at seperating myself from my eating disorder and have been going uphill and working towards my recovery since.
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