Review: Help with the Hard Questions
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 11 3, 2013
The author relays, both from personal and clinical experience, what is so very hard about emotional eating patterns. This book helped talk me through the very primal nature of food/eating as coping devices that are out of control, and helped me understand that it isn't just the overeating itself that I am using to calm my anxiety, it's also all of the preparation, preoccupation and then all the feelings it provokes, especially shame and guilt, that then drown out all other feelings. The problem runs so deep if you have this mindset, and I really appreciated the author's vision in helping detangling triggers and in changing overall mindsets to ones that are holistic and self-care driven. She includes a goal workbook that is very useful. The world puts so much pressure on those of us who need to lose weight that we don't stop to think about why or why we personally want to make that change or make it now. "Of course I'm supposed to," runs through our heads. But that doesn't make something a goal, or set the environment for self-care that will create meaningful lasting change, and the author really helped me understand this. This book sticks with you, and gives you lots of "A-ha" moments long after reading. I highly recommend it for those who carry the secret burden, and those who want to understand better those in their life who might be struggling.