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A leading activist in the Eating Disorder Awareness movement, Danielle Sherman-Lazar shares her hard-won wisdom about one of our society's hidden epidemics and her journey to healing. More than a memoir, Living Full is also a deeply researched expose into this world offering both help and hope.
About the author
Danielle Sherman-Lazar is an eating disorder advocate, Vice President of a transportation company, and a mother to two daughters, Vivienne and Diana. She has been published on Scary Mommy, Bluntmoms, The Mighty, ellenNation, Project Heal, Love What Matters, Cafemom.com, Beating Eating Disorders, Her View From Home, Motherly, Sammiches and Psych Meds, Recovery Warriors, Kveller.com, Humorwriters.org, and That’s Inappropriate. She has also contributed and has been featured on Today Parents and the Today Show. Follow her on her blog Living a Full Life After ED (https://livingafulllifeaftered.com/) and follow it on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/StrivingToBeFULLeveryday/). She loves to be in touch with her readers and anyone that needs hope or guidance in eating disorder recovery. She writes about recovery from eating disorders and motherhood---a lot of time both together--her two passions in life. Danielle writes, works and lives with her family in the Tri-State area.
Summary
A leading activist in the Eating Disorder Awareness movement, Danielle Sherman-Lazar shares her hard-won wisdom about one of our society's hidden epidemics and her journey to healing. More than a memoir, Living Full is also a deeply researched expose into this world offering both help and hope.
Foreword
At least 30 million people of all ages and genders suffer from an eating disorder in the United States (http://www.anad.org/get-information/about-eating-disorders/eating-disorders-statistics/). Four out of ten individuals have either personally experienced an eating disorder or know someone who has. (http://www.eatingdisorderhope.com/information/statistics-studies) That’s a huge amount of people who have been touched by eating disorders, and that doesn’t count the people who have experienced body shame, body dissatisfaction, and self-esteem issues. Not only that, but at any given time, 43 million adult women in the United States are dieting to lose weight. In 2003, one-third of inpatient admissions to a specialized treatment center for eating disorders were over 30 years old (https://www.nationaleatingdisorders.org/whats-age-got-do-it). That’s almost ten million adults who admitted they needed help and went to treatment. That number has definitely increased since 2003, between the media’s increased obsession with youth, plastic surgery, celebrity and added pressure to be a woman that does it all (works and takes care of the children). There are so many more adults out there who need help too and haven’t asked for it.
There are many opportunities for the author to promote:
· NEDA (National Eating Disorder Awareness) week, February 21–February 27
· World Eating Disorders Action Day, June 2.
· National Eating Disorders Association Conference, September 29–October 1
In addition, there are over 40 walks each year across the country. The New York walk is held every year in October, and she is a top fundraiser.
Sherman-Lazar will promote to the National Eating Disorder Association Facebook page, which has 82,215 followers. Project Heal, an organization she is a part of, has 32,598 followers. Recovery Warriors, which she has written articles for, has 9,561 likes. Beating Eating Disorders, another page she has written articles for has 36,321 likes. She will solicit these crowds to buy her book.
Sherman-Lazar is extremely proficient at social media. She established a Facebook page when she was in charge of New York’s I Am That Girl chapter, which had over 12,000 likes that she built from a fan base of zero
