num_pages: 256
description: If you eat to help manage your emotions you may have discovered that it doesnt work. Once youre done eating you might even feel worse. Eating can all too easily become a strategy for coping with depression anxiety boredom stress and anger and a reliable reward when its time to celebrate. If you are ready to experience emotions without consuming them or being consumed by them the mindfulness acceptance and dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) skills in End Emotional Eating can help. This book does not focus on what or how to eatrather these scientifically supported skills will teach you how to manage emotions and urges gracefully live in the present moment learn from your feelings and cope with distress skillfully. This book has been awarded The Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies Self-Help Seal of Merit  an award bestowed on outstanding self-help books that are consistent with cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) principles and that incorporate scientifically tested strategies for overcoming mental health difficulties. Used alone or in conjunction with therapy our books offer powerful tools readers can use to jump-start changes in their lives.
language: English
title: End Emotional Eating: Using Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills to Cope with Difficult Emotions and Develop a Healthy Relationship to Food
publisher: New Harbinger Publications