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Helpful, but a Bit Too Simple | Life Without Ed: How One Woman Declared Independence from Her Eating Disorder and How You Can Too | Jenni Schaefer, Thom Rutledge

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	• Life Without Ed: How One Woman Declared Independence from Her Eating Disorder and How You Can Too Jenni Schaefer, Thom Rutledge McGraw-Hill, 2003 - 192 pages average customer review:based on 48 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Great and helpful book!

I absolutely loved this book! it has a lot of great recommendations and tips to work on recovery.
Sometimes we need a book like this, that tells us what to do step by step in order to continue in recovery and it is better by someone who experienced an eating disorder in first hand.
Thanks Jenni for sharing your experience!!

Life Without Ed

This is an easy read but focuses on the author's recovery & stumbles along the way. I did not personally reap any benefit from reading this book but if you've never read any "self-help/recovery" books before, you may gain a few tips from this one. Her therapist has a few chapters in the book where he tells you what worked for "her". It's not a step-by-step book but if someone loans you the book, give it a read. I wouldn't buy it though. It's just not "hard-core" enough to give you any boundaries or core work to help you get started on your on self recovery. It may give you the hope & reassurance that you need to recover but that's about all!!!

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Helpful, but a Bit Too Simple

Make no mistake, "Life Without Ed" is most certainly a useful and worthy read for those with eating disorders, however, this book is better suited for those who have already began the recovery process. I say this because it makes recovery appear to be a lot quicker and more simplistic than it truly is. Those who are currently seeing a therapist for their eating disorder will be able to implement the tools provided in this book into their current program. In this book the eating disorder is personified as a man named ED ("E"ating "D"isorder). This technique makes it much easier to understand how the eating disorder works and why it is so powerful. Also provided are exercises that can be quite useful during the recovery process for both therapist and patient.

For those who have not yet begun treatment or those who are simply interested in the topic of eating disorders, this serves as a slightly sugar-coated account of recovery. While Jenni's story is an inspiring one, the book moves a bit quickly between topics and is a bit nonchalant at times. She shares witty anecdotes and reflects on different lessons that have been learned, but I don't believe she effectively captures just how painful and difficult this process can be. I definitely recommend reading this book--it is a useful ally in the recovery process--but perhaps more of a memoir than a self-help book.

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Life Without Ed: How One Woman Declared Independence from Her Eating Disorder and How You Can Too
Good book. Recommended. Gave it as gift. Delivery prompt.

Excellent Resource

I find this book an excellent resource for anyone who has an eating disorder or knows somebody who does. It offered me an insight into what my ED daughter is feeling and battling internally and gave me very practical ideas on how to support her and talk with her. She uses the same approach that Jenni uses and talks back to the emotional 'voice' that an ED can present and this approach is extremely useful in her recovery.

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A unique new approach to treating eating disorders

Eight million women in the United States suffer from anorexia nervosa and/or bulimia. For these women, the road to recovery is a rocky one. Many succumb to their eating disorders. Life Without Ed offers hope to all those who suffer from these often deadly disorders. For years, author Jennifer Schaefer lived with both anorexia and bulimia. She credits her successful recovery to the technique she learned from her psychologist, Thom Rutledge.

This groundbreaking book illustrates Rutledge's technique. As in the author's case, readers are encouraged to think of an eating disorder as if it were a distinct being with a personality of its own. Further, they are encouraged to treat the disorder as a relationship rather than as a condition. Schaefer named her eating disorder Ed; her recovery involved "breaking up" with Ed

Shares the points of view of both patient and therapist in this approach to treatment Helps people see the disease as a relationship from which they can distance themselves Techniques to defeat negative thoughts that plague eating disorder patients

Prescriptive, supportive, and inspirational, Life Without Ed shows readers how they too can overcome their eating disorders.

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