Books Starting with L
Lasagna for Lunch : Declaring Peace with Emotional Eating
By Mary Anne Cohen
In her second book, Lasagna for Lunch: Declaring Peace with Emotional Eating, Mary Anne Cohen explores why for many people, trusting food may be safer than trusting people. Food never leaves you, never rejects you, never criticizes you, never dies. It is the only relationship where we get to say when, where, and how much! Food is also the cheapest, most available, and most socially sanctioned mood-altering drug we can get. Ms. Cohen, Director of The New York Center for Eating Disorders for over forty years, gently guides readers to reclaim the vitality of their inner selves, taking back what has been hidden by a consuming relationship with food. Isolation with pastry, she says, needs to be replaced with intimacy with people. The author shows how emotional eating freezes feelings and pain and keeps people stuck. Specific healing strategies are described to help the thawing process. Lasagna for Lunch delves into issues of frozen grief and mourning, sexual abuse, substance abuse, men and eating disorders, healing negative body image, night-time binge eating syndrome, and pregnancy, as well as eating disorders in older women. Replete with in-depth case illustrations culled from her forty years of experience treating compulsive overeating, bulimia, and anorexia, Lasagna for Lunch offers a frank, behind-the-scenes look at what goes on in the healing experience of psychotherapy for emotional eating. The book reads like part novel, part detective story, with the author’s accumulated wisdom presented clearly and with humor. Lasagna for Lunch is a unique, information-packed mini-encyclopedia on eating disorders that will help emotional eaters and therapists alike.
348 pages, paperback, 2013
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The Last Word on Eating Disorders
By Leigh Cohn, editor
123 pages, hardcover, 2016
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Letting Go of Compulsive Overeating: Twelve Step Recovery from Compulsive Overating: Daily Meditations
By Anonymous Members of Twelve Step Recovery Programs
288 pages, paperback, 2011
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Letting Go of ED – Embracing Me: A Journal of Self-Discovery
By Maria Ganci & Dr. Linsey Atkins
234 pages, paperback, 2019
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Life Beyond Your Eating Disorder: Reclaim Yourself, Regain Your Health, Recover for Good
By Johanna S. Kandel
Life Beyond Your Eating Disorder, by Johanna S. Kandel is an inspiring collection of the recovery tools and techniques that can be used along the path to recovery. Johanna speaks about real issues, raw emotions, fear, and motivation that are all a part of the struggle to be free from an eating disorder. This book is truly a guide back to health, to find one’s self along that journey, and it provides the wisdom to strengthen the healthy, positive voice that lies within anyone going through this struggle.
240 pages, paperback, 2010
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Life Hurts: A Doctor’s Personal Journey Through Anorexia
By Elizabeth McNaught
144 pages, paperback, 2017
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Life Without Ed 10th Anniversary Edition: How One Woman Declared Independence from Her Eating Disorder and How You Can Too
By Jenni Schaefer with Thom Rutledge
Written in the tone of a true friend and infused with humor, Life Without Ed chronicles the baby steps, achievements, and challenges of overcoming an eating disorder in honest, forward prose. In therapy, Jenni learned to treat her eating disorder (“Ed”) as a relationship rather than an illness. The first stage of recovery from Ed was recognizing that “he” held tyrannical rule over her life, down to the last morsel of food, and that she must begin to see herself as separate from him—making room for her own unique voice and authentic self. In short, easy-to-read sections, Jenni takes you along her journey of “divorce” from Ed, sharing nuggets of wisdom that she learned along the way. The tenth anniversary edition includes a new afterword and sections devoted to men with eating disorders; family, friends and supporters; and treatment professionals. Combining a patient’s insights with a therapist’s prescriptions for success, the new edition also includes helpful ideas related to technology and an actual divorce decree to sign, pre-signed by Jenni as a witness to your own life without Ed.
188 pages, paperback, 2014
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Life Without Ed: How One Woman Declared Independence from Her Eating Disorder and How You Can Too – 10th Anniversary Edition
Audiobook, including the song, “Life Without Ed”
By Jenni Schaefer with Thom Rutledge; Narrated Jenni Schaefer
Written in the tone of a true friend and infused with humor, Life Without Ed chronicles the baby steps, achievements, and challenges of overcoming an eating disorder in honest, forward prose. In therapy, Jenni learned to treat her eating disorder (“Ed”) as a relationship rather than an illness. The first stage of recovery from Ed was recognizing that “he” held tyrannical rule over her life, down to the last morsel of food, and that she must begin to see herself as separate from him—making room for her own unique voice and authentic self. In short, easy-to-read sections, Jenni takes you along her journey of “divorce” from Ed, sharing nuggets of wisdom that she learned along the way. The tenth anniversary edition includes a new afterword and sections devoted to men with eating disorders; family, friends and supporters; and treatment professionals. Combining a patient’s insights with a therapist’s prescriptions for success, the new edition also includes helpful ideas related to technology and an actual divorce decree to sign, pre-signed by Jenni as a witness to your own life without Ed. To access the divorce decree and other resources, be sure to visit jennischaefer.com.
Living Full: Winning My Battle with Eating Disorders
By Danielle Sherman-Lazar
256 pages, paperback, 2019
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Living with Your Body & Other Things You Hate
By Emily Sandoz PhD & Troy DuFrene
184 pages, paperback, 2014
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Love, Anger, Power, and Food! A Guidebook for Women
By Shoshana Kobrin
Food is only too often a woman’s enemy – and her best friend. This unique guidebook addresses the underlying reasons for difficulties with food and weight. It offers practical tools for untangling frustration, transforming outmoded eating patterns and discovering satisfaction in the relationship with food, body – and life itself.
116 pages, paperback, 2013
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Love Your Body: Change the Way You Feel About the Body You Have
By Tami Brannon-Quan & Lisa Licavoli
Do you need to get out of that constant state of criticizing your body? We have the book for you! Love Your Body: Change the Way You Feel About the Body You Have, does not disappoint. This book will take you on a step-by-step journey to reconnect with your body and find a newfound appreciation and acceptance for the body you have. That internal critic has created self-loathing and poor self-esteem for far too long. Start today to make a positive change in how you feel about your body and do the work to feel better about yourself.
190 pages, paperback, 2007
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Love Your Body, Love Your Life: 5 Steps to End Negative Body Obsession and Start Living Happily and Confidently
By Sarah Maria
240 pages, paperback, 2012
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Loving the Food Obsessed Girl: A Biblical Resource on Eating Disorders for Parents & Friends
By Hannah G. Stelzl
234 pages, paperback, 2016
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Loving Someone with an Eating Disorder: Understanding, Supporting & Connecting with your Partner
by Dana Harron
176 pages, paper, 2019
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