Healing Your Hungry Heart: Recovering from Your Eating Disorder

By Joanna Poppink

10 million people in the U.S., including 1 in 5 women, suffer from eating disorders. While this issue has long been associated with teenage girls, doctors are now reporting that a growing number of women are also developing these disorders later in life or have hidden these problems for years. For women in their thirties, forties, fifties, and beyond, issues of loss from divorce, death, and empty nest syndrome as well as marriage and career pressures can trigger an eating disorder.

Psychotherapist Joanna Poppink offers a comprehensive and effective recovery program for women with eating disorders, based on her thirty-year professional practice treating adults with anorexia, bulimia, and binge eating. She shares her personal struggles with bulimia, along with stories from a wide-range of clients she has counseled. Poppink primarily addresses women who have been suffering with eating disorders for years while they manage their careers, marriages, and families.

Healing Your Hungry Heart offers a step-by-step program that identifies:
Early warning signsChallenges to early recoveryTriggers to emotional eatingImpact on sex life and family relationships

The program includes journaling, meditations, exercises, quizzes, and resources to support and speed the recovery process. For women struggling with emotional eating, this book offers hope, understanding, and real solutions.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Red Wheel Weiser
• Release date: Aug 1, 2011
• ISBN: 9781609253462

Joanna Poppink

Joanna Poppink, MFT is a Los Angeles psychotherapist in private practice. Poppink has more than 25 years of experience in helping adults recover from eating disorders. She studied psychology at University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), Saybrook Institute and received her M.A. from Antioch University. In her work and writing Joanna draws both on her clinical experience and her personal experience in healing from bulimia. She corresponds with women throughout the world via her website and Skype video in her ongoing efforts to support eating disorder recovery. Joanna lives in Los Angeles where, in addition to her private practice, she finds time for improvisational theater games, gardening, writing, travelling and having glorious, colorful and messy art experiences in her garden with the children in her family. Visit Joanna at: http://www.eatingdisorderrecovery.com.

Reviews for Healing Your Hungry Heart

[biunicorn_1 · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Healing Your Hungry HeartRecovering from Your Eating DisorderStories, Meditations and ExercisesFor Health and Freedomby Joanna Poppink, MFTI really enjoyed reviewing this 244 page how-to for those with eating disorders. I loved the author’s gentle supportive style as she gave examples of her own personal life and those of others who are afflicted. I was amazed at the variations when it came to symptoms, but found that that many of the reasons for the disorders were the same. After each section there are assignments that made sense and were easy to follow. I would recommend this much need happy helper to anyone concerned that they may have issues with eating. Thanks so much, Joanna for sharing your E S & H.Love & Light,Riki Frahmann