Conquer your food-based obsessions and compulsions-and rediscover the joy of eating.
Does obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) interfere with your ability to maintain a healthy relationship with food? If you struggle with food-related obsessions and compulsions, everyday meal decisions can feel like an agonizing ordeal filled with uncertainty, anxiety, and stress. You may avoid specific foods due to fear of weight gain or contamination, follow rigid food preparation routines, or even attempt to avoid food when possible. So, how can you develop a healthier connection with food-one that nourishes and sustains you?
In this cutting-edge workbook, you'll find evidence-based skills drawn from cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), exposure and response prevention (ERP), and Intuitive Eating to overcome avoidance and restriction, perfectionism about food and the body, contamination concerns, and sensory sensitivities. With this powerful guide, you'll identify the root cause of your food-based obsessions, and take steps toward lasting healing. Finally, you'll find strategies to help you deal with uncertainty, and make room for self-care in your daily routine.
A revolutionary approach to help you:
• Directly challenge and overcome your food and eating fears
• Understand the root cause of your obsessions
• Evaluate your progress and fine-tune your recovery program
• Create a foundation for lifelong health and success
If you're ready to take the stress and anxiety out of mealtime for good, this workbook offers proven-effective strategies you can use every day to build a healthy, sustainable relationship with food.
For people with food-related obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), every meal can feel like an agonizing challenge. In this workbook, readers with food and eating fears will find evidence-based skills drawn from cognitive behavioral therapy (DBT), exposure and response prevention (ERP), and Intuitive Eating to overcome avoidance and restriction, perfectionism about food and the body, contamination concerns, and sensory sensitivities. With this powerful guide, readers will identify the root cause of their food-based obsessions, and take steps toward lasting healing.
Lissette Cortes, PsyD, CEDS, is a licensed psychologist and certified eating disorders specialist in Florida, founder of Compassionate Healing Institute, and cofounder of the International OCD Foundation Special Interest Group (IOCDF SIG) for OCD and Eating Disorders. She is a cognitive behavioral psychologist specializing in exposure and response prevention (ERP), and a Health At Every Size (HAES)-aligned clinician practicing from a size-inclusive and diet-rejecting perspective incorporating intuitive eating principles. She is on the board of the South Florida Chapter for eating disorders professionals, and on the board of the Florida Psychological Association Palm Region.
Katie Jeffrey, MS, RDN, CSSD, is a registered dietitian nutritionist, board-certified specialist in sports nutrition, qualified instructor of mindful eating and living (MB-EAT-QI) through the Mindful Eating Training Institute (METI), and cofounder of the IOCDF SIG for OCD and Eating Disorders. She promotes a weight-neutral, non-diet mindful and intuitive eating and fueling philosophy in her private practice. Katie's mission is to empower individuals to honor their inner wisdom, make peace with food, feel comfortable in their body, cultivate a nourishing self-care practice-and enjoy a lifetime of emotional resiliency by bringing greater awareness, curiosity, and compassion to their behaviors, thoughts and feelings. Cortes resides in Deerfield Beach, FL; Jeffrey resides in Hartford, CT.
