Fat and Furious - Hardcover

Hollis, Judi

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Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0345379349 ISBN 13: 9780345379344

Publisher: Ballantine Books, 1994

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Fat and Furious is a real first...It presents mother-daughter and woman-to-woman issues which have never before been described in terms of eating disorders. Hollis draws unique parallels between negative eating habits and universal conflicts that all women face."
--Aphrodite Matsakis, Ph.D.
Author of Compulsive Eaters and Relationships
Dr. Judi Hollis, founder of the nation's first eating disorders hospital unit, reports that in twenty years of clinical practice, she has never met a starving or binging person who wasn't raging within. Why? What is the link between unexpressed anger and food obsession?
In Fat and Furious, Dr. Hollis traces the rage back to the "mother-daughter wound" where, at the root of all disordered eating, is one painful truth--our mothers passed on lies about their own pain, making healthy separation for their daughters impossible. And when daughters cannot claim their lives, they try to sedate, control, and suppress themselves--with food.
Dr. Hollis cautions that facing the mother-daughter wound does not mean blaming your mother. The challenge is to fearlessly confront the ways in which we are repeating the dynamics of the mother-daughter relationship in our lives today.
Fat and Furious is not an answer book. It is a book that will teach you how to ask probing questions--the first step to self-healing. With the wisdom and guidance in Fat and Furious, you will begin to hear and trust your own inner voice--and you will never be hungry again.
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About the Author:

Dr. Judi Hollis has been counseling addicted families since 1967 when she helped open New York City?s Phoenix House Programs. Since that time she went on to open the nation?s first eating disorder unit and has been training counselors internationally as well as opening alcoholism and eating disorder units around the country. She holds graduate degrees in rehabilitation counseling and counseling psychology from USC and is a licensed Marriage and Family Counselor. She has taught at USC, Goddard College, Chapman College, UCLA, and Omega Institute, Learning Annexes, and many community groups and hospital staffs around the country. Her bestseller Fat is a Family Affair has served as a groundbreaking treatise in the treatment field. It was followed by Fat & Furious, and then Hot & Heavy, and many workbooks, videos, and audio tapes. She currently maintains personal consulting practices on both coasts, dividing her time between New York City and Palm Springs, California as well as providing worldwide phone consultations. With her radio show, Dr. ?Jude?s Ladies Locker Room,? she developed an international audience. She is now completing work on a book about resisting the spiritual path titled FROM BAGELS TO BUDDHA. She appears often on television with Oprah, Sally, Maury, Leeza, and others and her work has been featured in Shape, Teen, Glamour, Self, Cosmopolitan, and Elle magazines. She can be reached at 1-800-8-ENOUGH or www.judihollis.com

From Kirkus Reviews:

Hollis (Fat is a Family Affair, not reviewed) maps the journey of self-examination that women must take to heal food obsessions She contends that we are seeing epidemic levels of compulsive eating, anorexia, and bulimia, and that these eating disorders stem from rage toward the ``mother-daughter wound'' as mothers, not knowing any better, pass on lies, pain, and disappointment to their daughters. As much as mothers deny the ``unhappiness at being born female in a world that prefers males,'' daughters pick up the signals. Faced with dishonesty, they turn to food to numb the truth that the Inner Self always tells. Healing, in Hollis's approach, does not mean blaming the mother or digging through the past for clues to why women are the way they are today. Instead, she promotes the Twelve-Step approach. She asks women to carefully moderate food consumption, to stop using food as a sedative, to seek the support of a sponsor who's had an eating disorder herself, and to begin the self-exploration necessary for self-acceptance, letting go, and rebirth. This book does not pretend that it can heal women all by itself. But it does offer the true stories of women's journeys; it directs women to outside help (including, conveniently, the Hollis Institute, of which the author is the clinical director); and it provides endless writing exercises to promote self-awareness. Interestingly, accepting-mother/accepting- self doesn't always end in a loving relationship; for some women it means realizing that their mothers just don't like them--not a bad thing, just the truth. Hollis offers the usual self-help lingo, realistically, if sometimes simplistically, examining issues of power and gender to offer a slightly different approach to eating disorders. (Author tour) -- Copyright �1994, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

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