Weight Wisdom Affirmations to Free You from Food and Body Concerns [Paperback]

In this powerful guide, Kingsbury and Williams equip readers with simple reflections, vignettes, and everyday analogies that they have successfully used with their own clients to counter destructive feelings and shatter distorted ideas of food and weight. Pithy and positive statements replace compulsive, perfectionist rules with new strategies to cope with blame, guilt, vulnerability, and self-criticism.

Concrete activities help people with eating problems get off the scales, get in touch with their feelings, and make friends with their bodies.

Written by experienced therapists who understand the needs and fears of people with eating problems, the book is a refreshing guide to lasting change and recovery.

Introduction:The Journey Begins
No you're not crazy you're coping.
There is no magic wand.
Find a safe place to heal.
It is not your weight, it is the weight of you issues.
If thin is in, I don't want to win.
You are not your dress size.
Think genetics.
Recovery is an inside job.
Fat is not a feeling.
Food is just food.
Keep fuel in the tank.
Learn to criticize behaviors not yourself.
Use short-term diversions.
Progress is not measured on the scale.
If you do not feel then you cannot heal.
It is human to need others.
Develop your voice.
Stay with the day.
Value the instrumental not the ornamental.
Slow and steady wins the race.
Take one step outside your comfort zone.
The road to recovery is a long and winding road.

Conquering the Hills and Valleys
It is hard to have an appetite with a belly full of feelings.
Fear not your feelings, every feeling has a special gift.
It is not selfish to take care of yourself.
Strive to be average.
Norman Rockwell does not live herel³Ž