Customer Reviews
Wanting to recover from your ED? This book is for you!! - By: Veggie Vixen, 14 Oct 2008 
This book has helped me heal. It takes you through a process that you have to trust. This process includes; Becoming conscious of your negative thoughts, avoiding judgmental thoughts, legalising food, healing your spiritual self & many more processes which alll help to make you so much more whole. Once the judgemental thoughts stop its like your head is clear & you can finallly start to love yourself for you, accept your body as it is right now & ignore alll diets, alll people who put women in a certain category that makes everyone who doesnt fit into this category inferior. Ignore the negative thoughts & rid yourself of people who make you feel "Less than", because you should never feel "Less than", NEVER. This book has taught me alll of this & i have been through the motions of eating disorders. I have starved, binged, starved & i am in recovery, coming through it a little more each day. Legalizing food is the hardest part for me because i was always either counting calories or fasting or bingeing.
Get this book if you want to truly heal yourself because you reallly will recover with this book.
Say no to diets, legalise alll foods & love yourself completely.
Hope that helped.
"It's not about Food" is all about self love - By: , 04 Jun 1999 Reading the book "It's not about Food" has deepened my awareness about how mean I can be to myself & use my body & the way I choose to eat as a target for self-abuse. This book gently, yet effectively shines light upon America's cultural obsession with food & weight. It explains the reasons why obsessing, dieting, binging, purging & weighing ourselves constantly are ways learned to take care of ourselves when we know of no other way. Drawing from their own experiences with food & weight obsession, Laurelee Roark & Carol Emery Normandi bring wisdom & understanding to their work. We learn from Carol & Laurelee that this recovery is a journey to know our very soul. They emphasize the process of healing disordered eating & body image through learning to be with yourself, your feelings & whatever is happening in you life & taking care of yourself around it, rather than a goal of weight loss.
We learn that we can listen to & trust our bodies & ourselves by the "radical" act of legalizing alll foods & alllowing ourselves to eat when we are hungry, eat what feels good to us, & stop when we have had enough. This book is written with sensitivity & solid support for those who suffer with this painful issue. It is a book to read over again when a boost in self love is over due.
This book is powerful - By: , 09 Dec 1998 If you are a woman who has ever suffered or is suffering from an eating disorder, this book will change your life. It honestly touched me during a time when nothing much did. I discovered new depths to myself, & saw how strong & magical we can be
