Understanding and Managing Emotional Eating: A Psychological Skills Workbook [Paperback]

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Dr Ratcliffe compassionately explores how and why emotionally driven eating behaviours may develop over time and, importantly, provides a step-by-step roadmap for changing behaviours in the here-and-now. Underpinned by years of experience in weight management, and brought to life by real examples, this book is an essential read for anyone wanting to break free from emotional eating.

Dr Sarah Appleton, Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist, Healthy Weight Programme, Guys & St Thomas Hospital

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Dr Ratcliffe has done it again, an invaluable companion on a difficult journey, this time navigating ?the complex issue of emotion eating - this will become another go-to resource for many people.

?Ken Clare, Director of Operations Obesity UK

Introduction; SECTION 1 Understand; SECTION 1A Introducing the emotional eating map; 2 Constructing a map of your emotional eating  how and why did the automatic emotional eating route develop?; 3 Constructing a map of your emotional eating: Recognising your automatic and familiar emotional eating route; 3a Constructing your emotional eating map; SECTION 2 Learning the skills to recognise, re-route and navigate emotional eating: Starting to build alternative routes and find new destinations; 4 Exit 1: Responding to triggers by building in a pause and managing your reactions; 5 Exit 2: Understanding and managing emotions; 6 Exit 3: Managing and updating the emotional eating thought ladder; 7 Exit 4: Developing alternative behaviours  short-term and longer-term options to look after your mind and body; SECTION 3 Template; 8 Developing your emotional eating template

Dr Denise Ratcliffe is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist who has specialised in provlƒ2