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Self Talk is Self Care: Readers will learn how to distinguish trash thoughts from treasure thoughts, why external motivators fail long-term, which internal motivators will fast track you to success, and how to fill your self-talk with the love, compassion, encouragement and hope needed to jump start or sustain recovery.
Leading Expert: Karen R. Koenig, LCSW, M.Ed., is a licensed psychotherapist, motivational speaker and international author who has specialized in the field of compulsive, emotional and restrictive eating for more than 30 years. She has been quoted in The Wall Street Journal, Ladies' Home Journal, AARP Online, Women's Health, Shape, Self, Berner Zeitung and OK magazines. She will use her extensive personal and professional platform to promote the book.
Help to All Who Need it: It is estimated that 30 million Americans struggle with some sort of eating disorder- these individuals are searching for resources to aid them in their recovery. Word to Eat by will be an approachable and applicable book for those in need.
About the author
Karen R. Koenig, LCSW, M.Ed., an expert on eating psychology, is a psychotherapist, blogger and an award-winning, international author of eight books on eating, weight and body image. She has 30+ years of experience in the field and practices in Sarasota, Florida.
Summary
This book will teach you how to use word power rather than willpower to increase your motivation and overcome your struggles with eating and body care. It explains how self-talk ties thought to action or inaction and how what we say to ourselves is shaped-for better or worse-by our families, culture and personal history. It illustrates how unconsci
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“Words to Eat By is transformative! It guides the reader toward conscious and compassionate self-talk, on a journey toward trusting their wise inner voice, rather than the internalized voice of diet culture. The result—a positive and happy relationship with food and body.” –Elyse Resch, MS, RDN, CEDRD-S, FAND, Co-author of Intuitive Eating and The Intuitive Eating Workbook, Author of The Intuitive Eating Workbook for Teens and The Intuitive Eating Journal—Your Guided Journey for Nourishing a Healthy Relationship with Food
"Words to Eat By helps us illuminate all of the ways that we harm ourselves with our thoughts and then gently guides us to transform those thoughts into caring, compassionate words of wisdom and guidance. The ultimate guide to self-talk that creates peace with your food and your body." —Lynn Rossy, Ph.D., Author of The Mindfulness-Based Eating Solution and Savor Every Bite: Mindful Ways to Eat, Love Your Body, and Live with Joy
“Karen Koenig’s Words to Eat By is a compassionate, straight-talking, and quietly inspirational guide to understanding how a person at any age can, via coaching and practice, learn, to eat, move, think, feel, and be in ways that embody mindfulness, self-caring, self-nourishment, and reasonable health. If you are willing to accept even the possibility of an upward spiral of constructive, nourishing, realistic self-talk—followed by self-compassion and pride in one’s progress as eating and self-caring become healthier—followed by energy, hope, and commitment, then Words to Eat By offers the authoritative wisdom and specific guidelines you can immediately put into practice.” —Michael P. Levine, Emeritus Professor of Psychology, Kenyon College; Fellow, Academy for Eating Disorders
