French Toast for Breakfast: Declaring Peace with Emotional Eating by Mary Anne Cohen

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Synopsis

For people with compulsive eating, chronic dieting, body dissatisfaction, anorexia nervosa, or bulimia. This is a warm and compassionate guide to understanding the emotions that underlie eating problems: shame, anger, guilt, sexual difficulties, and the fear of success. Clearly written for people concerned about food and weight issues, it is intended t help readers see food as their friend and nourisher, not their enemy.

French Toast for Breakfast is filled with practical exercises, dialogues from actual therapy sessions, straightforward answers to common questions, an in-depth comparison of treatment options, and a look at relapse -- how to prevent it and what to do if it occurs. It also includes a unique questionnaire to help readers determine which path to peace is best for them.

Annotation

From the director of the New York Center for Eating Disorders comes a guide to understanding and coming to grips with the emotions that underlie eating problems. Cohen helps readers pinpoint which problem contributes to their emotional eating, and then gives descriptions of a wide range of healing options available.

Biography

Mary Anne Cohen, CASW (certified social worker) is a psychotherapist and director for the NY Center for ED. In her over 20 years of clinical practice, she has helped hundreds of people heal their eating problems. A lecturer, teacher, writer, and supervisor, Ms Cohen has also hosted her own radio program, FTFB on the subject of ed. She has authored a series of self-help tapes that have sold internationally and has appeared on CBS-This Morning and The Jane Whitney Show (national TV) and cable TV in NY. Mary Anne has been quoted in Mademoiselle, Self, New Body, New York Woman, NY Magazine, the NY Times, the LA Times and has lectured to American Express, Canyon Ranch, The NY Commission on the Status of Women, at hospitals, AABA, Society of Clinical Social Workers, NASW, Employee Assistance Program of Staten Island, various colleges including NYU.