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This quarterly newsletter provides news, compassion and support for recovering individuals and their loved ones affected by anorexia, bulimia, and binge eating disorders. Multiple copy subscriptions are very popular with professionals looking for informative material to give to clients, parents, and friends. Here are some articles from the upcoming EDT:

• “Finding the Needle in the Haystack of Eating Disorder Care-Providers”
• “Relapse Prevention: Once is Enough”
• “Recovery and a Healthy Smile”
• “Life During Recovery: Questions to Ask Yourself”
• “Eating Disorders in Midlife & Beyond”
• “Leaving Inpatient Treatment: ‘Good as New?’”
• “Filling in the Gaps Between Black & White: Life in Recovery”

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	My Thin Excuse Understanding, Recognizing, and Overcoming Eating Disorders Lisa Messinger, Merle Cantor Goldberg, LSCW 246 pg, paper, 2006 (Code: MTE) $14.95
The diaries of most young women recount the ups and downs of friendships, school crushes, and first jobs. Chronicling her life from ages fifteen to twenty-two, aspiring writer Lisa captured on paper the evolution of her eating disorder, from its development to its eventual treatment. Interspersed throughout this fascinating story, eating-disorder expert and psychotherapist Merle Cantor Goldberg provides insights into Lisa’s personal struggle and ultimate victory.
	Eating Disorder Sourcebook-3rd Edition Carolyn Costin 336 pg, paper, ’07 (Code: EDS)$17.95
This sourcebook was written not only for those suffering from eating disorders and their significant others, but also for professionals. Costin explains how food problems are adaptive functions and discusses the influence of heredity. Chapters cover nutrition, the psychiatrist’s role, medical management, and what to do when outpatient treatment is not enough. Includes descriptions of 20 facilities that specialize in treating eating disorders.
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	Eating and Weight Disorders Chris R. Brewin 246 pg, paper, ’06 (Code: EWD) $26.95
This highly regarded book for professionals has recently been named as IADEP Recommended Reading. This concise, clearly written, well-illustrated book presents an excellent distillation of the major issues of the field. It is amply illustrated with tables, figures, and text boxes that break up the written text to focus on a range of issues, from clinical case examples through theoretical models. Each topic is well researched, and the most important current references are cited.

	Bulimia: A Guide to Recovery Lindsey Hall & Leigh Cohn 285 pg, paper, ’99 (Code: BUL) $11.96
This self-help guide offers advice and resources for understanding and overcoming bulimia. The revised edition has updated information and additional material on men and bulimia, sexual trauma, body image, relationships, and much more. Includes recommendations from 400 recovered bulimics. Useful for therapists, educators, bulimics, and their loved-ones. This fifth edition is completely updated and expanded, and offers a complete understanding of bulimia and a plan for recovery. Also available in Spanish.
	Anorexia Nervosa: A Guide to Recovery Lindsey Hall and Monika Ostroff 190 pg, paper, ’98 (Code: ANO) $11.16
This personal guidebook for understanding and overcoming anorexia nervosa includes answers to commonly asked questions; Monika’s own story of abuse, self-starvation, and recovery; information on healthy eating and weight; suggestions for how to stay committed; and a specific section for parents and loved ones. This compassionate self-help book has helped thousands of anorexics in their recovery process and is widely-recommended by therapists and educators. Also available in Spanish

Featuring support and advice from some of our most knowledgeable authors, each page on EatingDisodersBlogs.com is focused on a different aspect of eating disorders. Check out some recently posted topics:

• “What We Say is Not as Important as What We Do” by Doris Smeltzer
• “Charting your Hunger” by Karen Koenig
• “Hope: Believing In Yourself and Letting Go” by Jenni Schaefer
• “The Half-Lives of Eating Disorders” by Aimee Liu

International Conference on Eating Disorders 2007
May 2-5, 2007 Baltimore, MD
204-728-2499 or www.aedweb.org

Shades of Grey- Body Image and Self Esteem Conference
May 4-5, 2007 Toronto
1-866-NEDIC-20 or www.nedic.ca/2007ConferenceIntro.shtml

An Intuitive Eating Workshop for Professionals
Presented by Evelyn Tribole, MS, RD and Elyse Resch, MS, FADA
May 12, 2007 Los Angeles, CA
www.IntuitiveEating.org

This is an excerpt from “Making Up for Lost Time: Resuming the Path to Maturity
After an Eating Disorder” by Aimee Liu. It appeared in theWinter 2007 Eating Disorders Today

“She’s been in a moody puberty phase, and she’s just starting to push off from her mom.” Jenny was trying to describe the emotional change she’d seen in her half-sister, who was in treatment after seven years of anorexia nervosa. “She said to me last night, ‘I just wasn’t programmed to disagree with my mother. It hurts to disagree with her.’” Jenny paused. “She’s fighting so hard to become her own person.”
Jenny’s half-sister was now a freshman in college, but because of her eating disorder she had been in a state of arrested development, both physically and emotionally, since age eleven. At 61% of normal body weight, what she had seen in the mirror all these years was a child, and she behaved accordingly. She clung to her mother like a little girl, even sleeping next to her. She feared displeasing or defying her mother and avoided taking responsibility for herself. Now, as she regained her weight and her health with treatment, this young woman had to pick up emotionally where she’d left off when she began her spiral into anorexia. It was finally time to begin her adolescence.
While interviewing women with histories of anorexia and bulimia for my book Gaining: The Truth About Life After Eating Disorders, I realized that delayed maturity is not just typical but predictable—if we think of these illnesses in terms of arrested development. Unfortunately, because the body tends to regain its natural form and function faster than the mind, the gap between appearance and maturity can widen before it closes. Jenny’s sister at 80% of her normal weight might now look eighteen, but she was actually just beginning to exercise the emotional muscles of a twelve-year-old. This gap can be confusing for family and friends who now see before them a physically healthy young adult. Why doesn’t she “act her age?”
   Part of the confusion may lie in the all-too-common misconception of eating disorders as a problem solely of eating behavior. Recent studies indicate that more than one third of patients with anorexia struggle with aspects of avoidant or dependent personality disorder. Almost 40% of those diagnosed with bulimic anorexia may have borderline personalities. And obsessive-compulsive personality traits are common with both anorexia and bulimia. Such links between eating and personality disorders may be key to understanding why emotional maturity so often lags behind physical recovery.
 “I think these girls are quite delayed,” Harvard psychiatrist David Herzog agreed when I asked him about the emotional immaturity that so often is part of anorexia. “They’ve never been given the opportunity to experiment.”
“Never been given or never given themselves?” I asked him.
“A combination. They believe there’s no room for wrong. For some reason, wrong is unbearable.” Recovery, Herzog said, means experimenting with failure, misbehavior, and taboo. It means learning to be a little more “bad” and a little less perfect. “Whether it be swearing, whether it be listening to certain kinds of music, whatever.”
Parents, friends, and therapists need to be patient and remember that weight gain is just the most obvious beginning of recovery. As I look back now, I realize that it took me about ten years to catch up with my true age. Only then did I feel mature enough to fully embrace a particular career, to marry, to have a child of my own. My weight was normal all this time, but the process of recovery was continuing psychologically in ways I was only partially aware of. Those around me made no connection between my sometimes erratic experimentation and my earlier eating disorder, but in fact, it was all directly connected. In retrospect I can see, I was making up for lost time.

Aimee Liu is the author of Gaining: The Truth About Life After Eating Disorders, and also authors the Life After Recovery Blog on EatingDisordersBlogs.com

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