The Compassionate-Mind Guide to Ending Overeating: Using Compassion-Focused Therapy to Overcome Bingeing and Disordered Eating - Softcover

Goss PhD, Ken

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1572249773 ISBN 13: 9781572249776

Publisher: New Harbinger Publications, 2011

Synopsis

You know the cycle: you have a stressful day and find yourself snacking or overeating at dinner to make yourself feel better. The ritual of eating becomes so calming, you can't stop-and the guilt and self-criticism you feel can lead you to overeat even more the next day. What you may not know is that simply replacing your negative feelings with compassion for yourself can interrupt this cycle so that you can meet your emotional needs without resorting to overeating.

The Compassionate-Mind Guide to Ending Overeating presents an evidence-based program designed to help you grow a deep and abiding love for your body and health that transcends your emotional connection with food. As you work through the worksheets and evaluations in this book, you'll discover the specific reasons for your overeating, find out which foods trigger you to overeat, and then develop satisfying meal plans for getting your eating back on track.

This guide will help you:

• Understand your overeating pattern
• Motivate yourself for change
• Learn a new six-step program for enjoying food without overeating
• Compassionately care for your body

You'll also build compassionate-mind skills for dealing with stress, self-criticism, and shame, and establish a balanced eating pattern that will free you from the overeating cycle.

About this title

From the Publisher

In The Compassionate-Mind Guide to Ending Overeating, a psychologist specializing in eating disorders who is also on the board of directors for the Compassionate Mind Foundation presents a groundbreaking approach to changing readers' relationship to food. Compassion-focused therapy for eating disorders (CFT-E) helps readers overcome self-criticism with self-compassion and end overeating for good.

About the Author

Ken Goss, DClinPsy, is a consultant clinical psychologist and head of Coventry Eating Disorders in the United Kingdom. He has pioneered the use of compassion-focused therapy for the treatment of eating disorders. He was a student of Paul Gilbert, author of The Compassionate Mind and Overcoming Depression, and has worked within the field of compassion-focused therapy since the early 1990s. He is on the board of the Compassionate Mind Foundation and is one of the country’s leading experts on using compassion-focused therapy for the treatment of eating disorders.

Foreword writer Paul Gilbert, PhD, is professor at the University of Derby in the United Kingdom, Director of the Mental Health Research Unit at Derbyshire Mental Health Trust, and author of The Compassionate Mind.

Edition details

• Publisher: New Harbinger Publications
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1572249773
• ISBN 13: 9781572249776
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 248