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A compassionate book for clinician and client ............ |
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In her new book, Body Sense: Balancing Your Weight and Emotions Brenda
Crawford-Clark says that most diets are ineffective because they fail to
address the true underlying cause of weight problems: powerful, core feelings
that trigger the use of food whether
it is eating, not eating, purging or roller-coaster dieting.
Her approach to weight loss represents a radical departure from traditional
treadmill-running, calorie-counting diets . Body Sense shatters the
myth that a secret diet out there somewhere will solve all of our weight
problems, if only we have enough willpower to stick to it, Crawford-Clark
recognizes that weight loss and
eating disorders are far more complex.
She examines a multitude of factors that can contribute to food and weight. Issues from stress eating to eating disorders include individual chemical make-up, trauma, family stress, financial difficulties, life transitions, anger and even allergies. She says people often underestimate the hidden connection to past losses, such as divorce, financial problems, abuse, miscarriage, adoption, bullying, learning disorders and living in a fishbowl (often felt by children of pastors, therapists and media professionals, as well as those with physical disabilities.) Unresolved feelings and self-destructive messages that are often born during these experiences can contribute not only to that drive to use food to get out of feelings, but a continuing pattern of compulsive behaviors or self-destructive relationships. A systematic,
therapist-tested approach that helps readers honor their experiences and
disconnect from the pattern of self-destructive reactions is presented.
You will be introduced to the key concept of feeling flashbacks, which
occur when something triggers intense feelings that were felt
during a past loss or trauma and become part of the cycle of destructive
food use. Crawford-Clark
challenges the diet industry's popular assumption that people cannot feel
good about themselves and be overweight at the same time. She also believes
that all therapists can be and should be trained in recognizing and treating
weight and eating disorder issues. Body
Sense will give you new insight and tools to understand why so
many people struggle with their weight and why there has been such a high
relapse among those with eating disorders. It goes a step beyond in giving
you a resource package that you can put to use immediately to help clients
from continuing in that pattern. (Reprinted with permission from Beyond Words Publishers) |
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