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If you wish to say goodbye to your eating problem and develop a healthy relationship with food, Parting Is Such Sweet Sorrow: Saying Goodbye to an Eating Problem by Louise Parente, Ph.D., presents six well-explained steps and professional advice to help you do just that
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Beyond excellent. I continue to go back and reread chapters. The key is “relationships.” Being connected and the continuous struggles that go on. Finally coming to peace, embraced, and moved forward. Can’t wait for the next book. Keep the faith, breath, and learn.
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Parting is Such Sweet Sorrow by Louise Parente, PhD. The road to recovery from an eating disorder is never a straight line but, rather, extends through much-varied terrain. Recovery involves addressing emotional and biological problems, recognizing the futility of dieting, working through the impact of possible trauma as well as understanding cultural and sexual identity issues
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Parente, who has treated hundreds of patients with eating disorders, focuses on a theme not often expressed in traditional diet books: “To change your relationship with food, you must work through and grieve loss. A change in one’s eating presents an emotional loss, sometimes manifested in feelings of emptiness.” With this intriguing notion driving the content, the work is as much about psychological factors as it is about eating problems­
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Parente, an eating disorder specialist, uses her personal and professional experience to provide readers with insights into the topic and tools to understand where they are in their journey. Readers with eating disorders may be familiar with the pain of trying and failing to maintain progress in their battles. Hence, the author emphasizes the need to focus on the feelings of loss that would arise from changing how one eats. She adds that it is necessary to grieve that loss.
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