We are excited to announce the publication of a dynamic new workbook by one of our best-selling authors, Karen Koenig. Pre-order The Food and Feelings Workbook at 30% off, it will be available for shipping approximately January 15th.
*Don’t forget to use the code HBS10 at checkout to receive an additional 10% discount.

Food and Feelings Workbook
A Full Course Meal on Emotional Health
Karen Koenig
216 pg (soft), ’07 (Code: FAF) $18.95 $13.26

Success in overcoming eating problems depends on learning to effectively and appropriately handle emotions, specifically: guilt, shame, helplessness, anxiety, disappointment, confusion, and loneliness. In this dynamic workbook, Koenig interweaves lighthearted discussion with mindful, reflective exercises to show readers how to identify, experience, and learn from these feelings instead of burying them in food-related behaviors.
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Our 2007 Eating Disorders Resource Catalogue will be delivered to you by the end of January. With a totally new design expanded to 48 pages, over 25 new books, a more user-friendly treatment facility index and expanded to 48 pages, and more new articles, this is our largest and most thorough catalogue yet! Some of the new titles you will see include: The Parent’s Guide to Eating Disorders, Treatment of Bulimia in Adolescents, What’s Right With Me?, and Conquer Your Critical Inner Voice. The catalogue is FREE and available to anyone in need of resources and helpful advice.

Professionals are encouraged to order free bulk quantities to distribute to clients, families, students and colleagues. Please let us know how many catalogues you would like (boxes are available in quantities of 10, 25, 50, 75, 100, 150).

To pre-order 10 or more copies of the 2007 catalogue, or if you have had a change of address:
Email: amy@gurze.net
Subject: 2007 catalogue
Specify name, address, and number of catalogues.
Sorry, free catalogues are only available in the US. Please contact us for international shipping rates.

Receive 10% off everything we carry until the end of the year! Simply use the code HBS10 at checkout.

In addition, we’ve taken the following Gürze BESTSELLERS and marked them 30% off. Combine with the discount code and you will receive 40% off the cover price.

The Rules of Normal Eating: A commonsense approach for overeaters, undereaters, and everyone in between.

Honey, Does This Make My Butt Look Big?: A couples guide to food and body talk.

Eating in the Light of the Moon: How women can transform their relationships with food through myths, metaphors and storytelling.

Shapesville: A fun, colorful book about body image and diversity. Also available in Paperback.

Live Large: Affirmations for living the life you want in the body you have.

Bodylove: An inspiring guide for women who want to become less critical of themselves.

Research on Genes and Eating Disorders: For the past few years, the National Institute of Mental Health has been sponsoring a multicenter, international study seeking to determine whether a gene or genes might predispose individuals to develop anorexia nervosa. They are almost finished but still need families with at least two members who have or had anorexia nervosa, and who would be willing to participate. The study involves the completion of interviews, questionnaires, and a blood draw. Participants do not need to travel and will be paid upon completion of the study. For more information call 1-888-895-3886, email EdResearch@msx.upmc.edu or visit the website www.angenetics.org.

“You have probably heard the story of Scrooge in Charles Dicken’s A Christmas Carol. When I was a child, I dreaded the occasions when my family watched the movie on television. It was twenty years later that I could begin to appreciate the full meaning of this story…Scrooge was just buzzing along in his life totally focused on what was important to him. His work was going well. He was making money, but he was a penny pincher. He had no empathy for people who were less fortunate. He had no heartwarming traits at all. Scrooge was not in the mood for company on Christmas Eve, but he had visitors anyway—the ghost of his deceased friend Marley, and three Spirits he had never met before… The night was long for Scrooge; sparing nothing, they forced him to relive his Past, to scrutinize the Present, and to face the Future—the unknown… This was the spirits’ message to Scrooge:

“Scrooge, you’ve managed to get off track. You’ve lost sight of the wonder of the world, of humanity, of yourself! That’s not a good idea, especially because you were put on this planet for a purpose.
“You’ve become totally entrenched in a spiritless existence. That’s not a way to live, but you don’t seem to be able to figure that out for yourself. So we’ve come to help you out—to help you to see.
“We don’t mean to give you a hard time, but if we don’t, you’ll miss the point of our visit. You were meant to lead an inspired life! Be sure that you learn this life-lesson now, before it’s too late. If you do, you can become the person you were meant to be, and the pain of this nightmare will go away”

There are parallels in your life, although you may not see them. Just substitute Scrooge’s obsessions with money and work with your obsessions with food, weight, and physical perfection. On the deepest level, you are not meant to—nor do you even want to—live a life based on those kinds of external priorities. But you have not known how to connect with a life that is more meaningful.
You don’t have Scrooge’s spirits to awaken you, but other events can serve the same purpose. Chaotic eating is a powerful teacher in its own right. It is no more mild-mannered or welcome, and no less terrifying. As distressing as it is, don’t lose sight of why it is there.”

-From Desperately Seeking Self: an Inner Guidebook for People with Eating Problems by Viola Fodor

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