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Reviews for my book, Healing Your Hungry Heart: recovering from your eating disorder, 2011, Conari Press 5.0 out of 5 stars Help after 24 years of bulemia, March 3, 2012 By pandora2 - See all my reviews Amazon Verified Purchase(What's this?) This review is from: Healing Your Hungry Heart: Recovering from Your Eating Disorder (Paperback) I just felt that the author of this book not only helped me, but it was like she knew so much about the tendencies of a bulemic. I was done trying to control my bulemia myself. This book gave me a starting point to recovery and tools to help me through my journey. I Cried through the first two chapters because I felt that she related to excatly how I feel on a daily basis. I would recommed the book to Bulemics, exercise bulemics, and compulsive eaters. I felt that the book was not as catered to those suffering from annerexia as much. However, it is helpful for anyone who is suffering from an eating disorder. Help other customers find the most helpful reviews Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Report abuse | Permalink Comment Comment 5.0 out of 5 stars OMG...she really understands!, February 26, 2012 By Amy - See all my reviews Amazon Verified Purchase(What's this?) This review is from: Healing Your Hungry Heart: Recovering from Your Eating Disorder (Paperback) I've been reading Healing Your Hungry Heart. (I bought one for my therapist, too!) I have been dealing with eating disorders for almost 30 years. I've tried everything, and have worked with a number of therapists. I have a happy but chaotic life (4 kids) and I seem to always feel anxious. I have never been able to get a hold of my issues. I am so thankful for this book. It has enlightened me as to how much bigger this picture of an eating disorder really is in my life. And in doing so, has enabled me to look at situations in a whole new way. I know it's going to take time...but with this book and the help of my therapist, I now feel for the first time in my life that there is hope. I love how Joanna writes to us...with a compassion that comes only from knowing. I've started laughing at myself...at the beginning of every chapter I say something like, "Well, I don't need this chapter, I don't have any issues with boundaries". Then I go on to highlight almost every word! I have never read anything that hits home as much as she does in this book. She really understands how encompassing this disorder is...and I have to believe that that is imperative to finding lasting recovery. I can tell I'll be reading this book over and over again! Thank you, Joanna! Help other customers find the most helpful reviews Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Report abuse | Permalink Comment Comment 1 of 1 people found the following review helpful: 5.0 out of 5 stars And Save Your Life, February 20, 2012 By Keven Bellows (LOS ANGELES, CA, US) - See all my reviews This review is from: Healing Your Hungry Heart: Recovering from Your Eating Disorder (Paperback) Joanna Poppink is an experienced and gifted therapist, who knows the pathology of eating disorders inside and out. This book is very accessible,understanding and, best of all, very specific about actions readers can take to move away from the terrible consequences of coping with the past and present with food. Reading it is like sitting in her office with a wise and warm friend who knows just how you feel and just what you can do about it! I can't imagine a better resource for the thousands of people who suffer so much and those who love them. Help other customers find the most helpful reviews Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Report abuse | Permalink Comment Comment 1 of 1 people found the following review helpful: 5.0 out of 5 stars Gentlest Recovery Path into Lifelong Health, February 19, 2012 By G. Jordan "Voracious Reader" (Adirondacks, NY) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME) This review is from: Healing Your Hungry Heart: Recovering from Your Eating Disorder (Paperback) I was asked by the author to review this book. I'm about 1/3rd the way into it and must say it is the gentlest recovery type book I've seen, and continuously validates the reader's experiences & allays one's fears, as well as giving truthful expectations as to how long or short one's recovery period may be. While I don't have an eating disorder myself, I do come close in some areas mainly because I do have the background that many people in recovery of one kind or another share. This book defines the behaviors of every aspect of eating disorders, including the one I perhaps fit into as a binge eater who does not purge, unrecognized officially as an eating disorder, yet this book does include this information so it's truly a resource for everyone. I've been in recovery for various issues for over 15 years and am familiar with the types of healing required, the work necessary & the time tables involved. One of the refreshing aspects of this book is that it is NOT overtly religious in any way, does not even speak of a higher power as many recovery books do, although a sacredness is discussed, nowhere is there one religious view over another or any required set of beliefs to recovery. I'm excited by the implications as I've been hesitant to recommend the usual 12-step recovery materials when I believe in behavioral (and emotional, intellectual, spiritual perhaps) changes rather than labeling something as a disease one is powerless over. I appreciate that this book makes room for recovery of any positive type. Especially where the author recognizes what we in solution-focused therapy always use as the first contact reinforcement for someone needing help on any problem, and that is to recognize what the person is already doing to cope with their problem, the ways they have already found to survive through the issues in their lives, the practical but perhaps harmful ways we all find to defend ourselves against our fears or unhealthy actions & beliefs. We are already STRONG, not weak as we've been told or taught to think, we are already dealing with the problem the best way we know how, and one should be congratulated for that. Slowly & gently one is lead to observing where we may be harming ourselves, our relationships or lives with beliefs and internalized pain we express in the only ways we may know how.
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Great book -- inspiring and accessible, August 10, 2011 By Heidi J. Dalzell, PsyD - See all my reviews This review is from: Healing Your Hungry Heart: Recovering from Your Eating Disorder (Paperback) I am a practicing psychologist specializing in treating eating disorders. I often suggest books for my clients, and plan to make Healing Your Hungry Heart a frequent recommendation. I have had clients read the book and they love it as much as I do, especially the personal stories and meditations. I think readers will find the book to be accessible, and discover many "take-aways" that will aid in their recovery. The response from my clients so far: "Great book! I finally understand ... ". Thank you Joanna! Help other customers find the most helpful reviews Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Report abuse | Permalink Comment Comment 4 of 4 people found the following review helpful: 5.0 out of 5 stars enlightening & supportive, August 7, 2011 By Shh - See all my reviews This review is from: Healing Your Hungry Heart: Recovering from Your Eating Disorder (Paperback) I'm half way through Healing Your Hungry Heart, and finding the book so enlightening - Joanna's story of her own recovery journey makes you warm to the author and makes you feel that she is more than just an experienced eating disorders therapist. But this isn't an autobiography, it's a genuine, self-help book - the chapters and exercises on secrets and boundaries help to reveal so much about yourself and what drives your eating disorder, several times already they have hit on things that have reduced me to tears, but healing tears, positive tears that help me to understand myself and acknowledge things. This book is definitely worth a read if you are serious about tackling your eating disorder, in fact it's the kind of book that you will revisit over and over again!
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Oh my -- I needed this!!, August 23, 2011 By Fegele - See all my reviews Amazon Verified Purchase(What's this?) This review is from: Healing Your Hungry Heart: Recovering from Your Eating Disorder (Paperback) I meant to read just a few pages at first and wound up reading the whole book in one sitting (the first time). Now I'm going back through underlying and taking notes. It really is like having my big sister hold my hand and looking under the bed with me to check for monsters. Maybe they're there, but they are so much easier to face knowing I'm not facing them alone. I actually resolved the "eating" part of my eating disorder years ago, but that doesn't mean that I had put to rest all the issues that led me to act out on my body or limit myself in so many other ways. Funny how we can absolutely know there are still issues to be dealt with and yet allow our minds to successfully skitter away from facing them for many many years. In the space of a handful of gentle hours Joanna's book not only brought many of those issues into focus for me, but also made me realize how much I've been allowing to control me AND gave me tools to address them. I know I still have work to do -- work I've shied away from most of my life because I felt it would be painful and tedious. For the first time in 30 or 40 years, that work now feels like it will be more a joyous adventure of discovery and freedom. Thank you, Joanna -- for reminding me that I can fly! Help other customers find the most helpful reviews Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Report abuse | Permalink Comment Comment 1 of 1 people found the following review helpful: 5.0 out of 5 stars A wonderful, readable, helpful book!, August 16, 2011 By Nina (Los Angeles, CA) - See all my reviews Amazon Verified Purchase(What's this?) This review is from: Healing Your Hungry Heart: Recovering from Your Eating Disorder (Paperback) As a psychotherapist specializing in treating bulimia and binge eating (and as someone recovered from my own struggle with disordered eating), I couldn't wait to read Healing Your Hungry Heart. Many books on this subject treat the disordered eating behavior as the problem, when it fact it is a symptom of the problem. I knew from the title, and from my familiarity with Joanna Poppink's work, that this would be different. Chapter 12 alone is worth the price of this fabulous book. When I finished it (moments ago) I couldn't wait to write about how much I loved it. Joanna's words resonated so powerfully with my experience as a therapist and with the part of me that was so wounded in the past. Not only did she perfectly capture the experience of someone in the grip of that terror and horror, she explained where that state comes from, and gave such great ideas about what to do about it. Really,really terrific!