Starting Monday: Seven Keys to a Permanent, Positive Relationship with Food
Starting Monday is based on the simple premise that when our behaviors don’t align with our expressed intentions, we’ve got a conflict going on, often outside of our awareness. The book helps readers dig deeply into their psyches to figure out what mistaken beliefs and needless fears are holding them back from achieving their health and fitness goals. The polarized feelings for dysregulated eaters to identify and resolve fall within these seven key areas: 1) create lasting change, 2) making conscious choices, 3) feel deserving, 4) how to comfort themselves, 5) know what's enough, 6) manage intimacy, and 7) developing a healthy identity.
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Book details
- Author
- Karen R. Koenig
- Imprint
- Gurze Books, an imprint of Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Pages
- 280
- Formats
- Paperback
- Subjects
- Self-Help › Eating Disorders & Body Image
Health & Fitness › Diet & Nutrition › Diets - Topics
- emotional eating · disordered eating · eating disorder recovery · binge eating · healthy relationship with food · self-worth · behavior change · weight loss mindset
- ISBN-13
- 9780936077789
About the author
KAREN R. KOENIG is a licensed clinical social worker with more than 20 years of private practice experience helping compulsive, emotional, and restrictive eaters learn to eat normally.
Koenig was a semifinalist in the 1999 Massachusetts Film Office Screenwriting Contest and received a Certificate of Achievement in the 1996 Writer’s Digest Literary Short Story Contest. She has contributed columns on eating, weight, and body image to Focus, the NASW Massachusetts state publication, and her personal essays have appeared in The Boston Globe, The Boston Herald, and other publications.
When she’s not writing, Koenig runs graduate social work and psychology continuing education programs in eating and weight management. She is a founding member of the Greater Boston Committee of the Massachusetts Eating Disorders Association.