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Feeding the Hungry Heart: The Experience of Compulsive Eating
by Geneen Roth
from Plume

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

• FEED THE HUNGRY HEART
  I BOUGHT THIS BOOK FOR A RELATIVE WITH AN EATING DISORDER BUT I ENDED UP READING IT FIRST! IT HELPED ME TO UNDERSTAND MORE ABOUT THESE DISORDERS. I CAN SEE THIS BOOK HELPING THE SUFFERING FEEL LIKE THEY AREN'T CRAZY OR ALONE, AND THAT THERE IS HOPE. IT OPENS THE DOOR TO RECOVERY....

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  The best book I've yet read on compulsive eating. One line touched me to the core. Do I eat to mother myself because I never got any; to nurture myself? Maybe that's why I need a dog, someone who I feel loves me totally and completely as me, not as a daughter or a wife? But this book also showed some very sick people in regards to food, some very bad binges and sneak eating. My life and thought do tend to revolve around food - buying it, cooking it, eating it. The writing is excellent. Roth should really... more info

• All the sugar and 2x the caffeine, please. No teenager should live inside an ED.
  Living with an eating-disordered father all my life, it's no surprise that I started sneaking and hoarding food up in my bedroom by the age of 6. He snuck his binge foods, too, existing on diet Coke, eggbeaters, fat-free cheese, and salads of entire heads of lettuce adorned with other fat free vegetables and topped with fat-free dressing to take to work-- where he'd eat a 2lb. bag of M&M's in one shift. When I became clinically bulimic at 12, he slowly ceased restocking the pantry and fridge. I was... more info

• A New Way of Thinking
  Geneen Roth has opened up a new path in my journey to recovery from compulsive eating. Her ideas and suggestions put my eating disorder in a different light. It is nothing to be so ashamed of that I continue my own self-sabotage. With work - getting rid of the old messages surrounding my compulsive eating - I will discover the me I was created to be.

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