Enlightened Eating : Understanding and Changing Your Relationship with Food

A supportive resource on eating, overeating, weight, body image, stress, and self esteem. For insight about why we eat and cannot stop, this is a compassionate and helpful guide to understanding and changing our relationship with food. With sections on women's issues, food & feelings, stress, surviving the holidays, and inner spirit, this book contains 34 exercises to do for more insight on one's journey toward wholeness & peace with food. Helpful to individuals with body/weight struggles as well as counselors, nutritionists, & those with eating disorders.

Rebecca Ruggles Radcliffe is an author, national speaker, educator, and consultant on personal growth with a special focus on women's issues. She is asked to keynote women's events around the country and avidly encourages women to develop and utilize their unique talent to heal, unify, connect, and support in order to make the world a better place. Her other titles include Body Prayers: Finding Body Peace—A Journey of Self-Acceptance and Dance Naked in Your Living Room: Handling Stress & Finding Joy.

With her background in education, health, communications, and business, she also holds undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of Minnesota and University of St Thomas. She is an Adjunct Professor at the University of St Mary's where she teaches a graduate class called Spirituality, Food, and Body Acceptance.

She began her work with women's issues, eating issues, and body image when she helped open a treatment facility for women with eating disorders in Philadelphia in 1985. She quickly realized that women across the country would benefit from deep insight into these issues that are so common in our thinness culture. As a result, she began her speaking, writing, and publishing career in 1988. To date, she has spoken to many thousands of women of all ages across the country. Individual women, counselors, nutritionists, schools, universities, and hospitals find her book(s) insightful, supportive, and helpful in growth and healing.