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Food and Feelings Workbook: A Full Course Meal on Emotional Health

by Karen R. Koenig
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An extraordinary, powerful connection exists between feeling and feeding that, if damaged, may lead to one relying on food for emotional support, rather than seeking authentic happiness. This unique workbook takes on the seven emotions that plague problem eaters — guilt, shame, helplessness, anxiety, disappointment, confusion, and loneliness — and shows readers how to embrace and learn from their feelings. Written with honesty and humor, the book explains how to identify and label a specific emotion, the function of that emotion, and why the emotion drives food and eating problems. Each chapter has two sets of exercises: experiential exercises that relate to emotions and eating, and questionnaires that provoke thinking about and understanding feelings and their purpose. Supplemental pages help readers identify emotions and chart emotional development. The final part of the workbook focuses on strategies for disconnecting feeling from food, discovering emotional triggers, and using one’s feelings to get what one wants out of life.

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Book details

Author
Karen Koenig
Imprint
Gurze Books, an imprint of Turner Publishing Company
Published
Formats
Paperback
Subjects
Self-Help › Eating Disorders & Body Image
Psychology › Psychopathology › Eating Disorders
Topics
emotional eating · eating disorders · disordered eating · binge eating · emotions and food · guilt and shame · anxiety and loneliness · compulsive eating
ISBN-13
9780936077208

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.

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