Eating Disorder Recovery Handbook ─ A Practical Guide to Long-Term Recovery

This handbook helps readers with long-term recovery from an eating disorder. It contains tasks, worksheets, and reflection questions to help readers understand eating disorders and their hidden meanings, motivations, and assessment and evaluation; related disorders, such as obsessive behaviors, obsessive compulsive disorder, ritualistic behaviors, and depression; identity issues; the role of thoughts; social aspects; and treatment. It provides self-help tools for dealing with problems like anxiety and relaxation, advice, and tasks for maintaining recovery. Davies, a health psychologist, counselor, and writer, and Bacon, an eating disorder recovery mentor and author, are both eating disorder survivors. Annotation ©2017 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)

Nicola Davies is a health psychologist, counsellor, and writer specialising in raising awareness about health and well-being. She is a member of the British Psychological Society and the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. Nicola also keeps a health psychology blog and runs an online forum for counsellors.Emma Bacon is the founder of BalancED MK, an eating disorder support service, which she set up after her own recovery from anorexia nervosa. She also offers mentoring and facilitates a self-support group for sufferers and carers, with the aim of spreading awareness and understanding about eating disorders.