Healing Your Hungry Heart

“Practical, sound, and insightful advice” to help you overcome the struggle of emotional eating, realize your self-worth, and live the life you deserve (Marya Hornbacher, author of Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia).

One in five women suffer from eating disorders. While this issue is primarily associated with teenage girls, doctors report that a growing number of women are also developing these disorders later in life or have hidden these problems for years. For women in their thirties, forties, fifties, and beyond, issues of loss from divorce, death, empty nest syndrome, marriage, and career pressures can trigger an eating disorder.

You might find yourself juggling careers, marriages, and families, all while struggling with eating disorders for years. Healing Your Hungry Heart is that friend you can lean on. Psychotherapist Joanna Poppink offers a comprehensive and effective recovery program for women with eating disorders, based on her thirty-year professional practice treating adults with anorexia, bulimia, and binge eating. She shares her personal struggles with you about bulimia, along with stories from a wide range of clients she has counseled and a step-by-step program that identifies:Early warning signsChallenges to early recoveryTriggers to emotional eatingImpact on sex life and family relationships

This psychotherapist’s program includes journaling, meditations, exercises, quizzes, and resources to support and speed the recovery process. For women struggling with emotional eating, “this book offers a variety of valuable tools and practical ways for those with eating disorders to nourish both their bodies and their spirits. It also offers real solutions and hope for its readers” (Christine Hartline, M.A., founder and director, Eating Disorder Referral and Information Center).