Healing Emotional Eating for Trauma Survivors: Trauma-Informed Practices to Nurture a Peaceful Relationship with Your Emotions, Body, and Food by Diane Petrella


Healing Emotional Eating for Trauma Survivors: Trauma-Informed Practices to Nurture a Peaceful Relationship with Your Emotions, Body, and Food
Title : Healing Emotional Eating for Trauma Survivors: Trauma-Informed Practices to Nurture a Peaceful Relationship with Your Emotions, Body, and Food
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ISBN : 1648481175
ISBN-10 : 9781648481178
Language : English
Format Type : Kindle Edition
Number of Pages : 192
Publication : Expected publication September 1, 2023

Heal the trauma at the root of your emotional eating. If you’ve experienced physical, sexual, or emotional abuse, your past trauma could affect how you care for yourself today. You may struggle with difficult thoughts and feelings, and reach for food to soothe your emotions when feeling sad, anxious, or stressed. You aren’t alone. In fact, studies show there is a strong link between adversity, trauma, and abuse and emotional eating. The good news is there are tools you can use to heal from the past and nurture a healthier relationship with food, your body, and yourself. This book offers step-by-step guidance for rewiring your brain to calm trauma-based fears, regulate your body and emotions, connect with your inner wisdom for strength, and release emotional weight. Healing Emotional Eating for Trauma Survivors offers an innovative, trauma-informed approach to overcoming emotional eating using the principles of mindfulness, self-compassion, and neuroscience. With this gentle guide, you will gain a deeper understanding of your trauma, and discover alternative ways to soothe stress and difficult emotions when they show up. You’ll also learn to shift your focus away from your weight, so you can cultivate a more loving connection with your body as you heal. With this compassionate guide, you’ll discover ways   Most importantly, you’ll find the support you need to end the cycle of emotional eating and release the weight of your trauma—so you can live with a greater sense of freedom and vitality.

Healing Emotional Eating for Trauma Survivors: Trauma-Informed Practices to Nurture a Peaceful Relationship with Your Emotions, Body, and Food Reviews

  • Linda Garcia

    Thank you #netgalley, #dianapetrella and #neharbingerpublications for this ARC of a book that I 100% need.

    I will start off by saying I am NOT a self-help book reader; never have been. I have tried a few times with a few different subjects. I'm very much a "i want to get lost in my reading and forget my real life" type person but when I saw the title of this book on NetGalley, I took my chances in hoping that I would be, not only approved to read it but also able to read it. By page 49, I had pre-ordered the book on Amazon which comes out 9/1. This book is exactly what I need to compliment my therapy sessions. There are a lot of Emotional Eating self help books on the market but one tailored to Trauma Survivors of Physical, Sexual, and Emotional Abuse I have never seen. As a survivor of those different types of traumas, emotional eating has always been an issue for me which is why my weight fluctuates a lot. This book not only had statements that I have have used to try and justify my eating and avoidance of the root cause, it also has other real life survivors speaking of going through the same journey. We already know the who of the book and it goes into the what and when, they why and how to help heal. It gives real life, helpful techniques to help not only get to the root cause of the why but also what steps to take to help stop emotional eating. There are also links for the publication that will provide some additional resources, templates, etc. While I was reading the book (beginning of July 2023), I tried bringing up the webpage but I don't believe it was ready yet. However, I did go to the main webpage and signed up for a few newsletters. I noticed that the author is licensed independent clinical social worker specializing in childhood trauma and emotional eating based in Providence, RI which is my old home State. If I was still in RI, I would absolutely make an appt with her. I am very much on a healing journey from childhood and young adulthood trauma and this is one more tool in my toolbox that I will 100% use. I am recommending this to a few friends that have also experienced the same trauma and have the same issues with emotional eating. This book is fantastic and a must read.

    Thank you again for the ARC!

  • Carin Boersma

    Gently but firmly Donna takes one by the hand to guide one through the process of stopping with Emotional Eating for Trauma Survivors. Also Over Eaters may find guidance in the book. It is not a kick-start but it will lay the foundation of one's way...

  • Kelly Pramberger

    Five stars. Great and informational book to help with healing emotional eating and processing grief. I enjoyed all the chapters. Found them to be insightful. Thanks to NetGalley for the ARC.