Heal Your Love-Hate Relationship with Food - by Kimberly M Daniels Paperback

About the Book

Many people turn to emotional eating when they're feeling stressed, bored, or sad. This destructive cycle then leads to feelings of guilt, shame, and negative body image. Intuitive Eating is a revolutionary, anti-diet approach to whole-body health that focuses on paying attention to natural hunger cues. But in order to fully transform your relationship with food, it's essential to understand why you use food as a coping mechanism. This book offers the "next step" in Intuitive Eating--internal family systems (IFS) therapy--to help readers heal the underlying cause of their emotional eating and feel comfortable in their own bodies.

Book Synopsis

A "game-changing" approach to transform your relationship with food and feel truly comfortable in your own body.

Do you mindlessly eat when you're feeling sad, bored, or stressed? Or perhaps you deny yourself food in order to feel more in control of yourself and your body? Intuitive Eating is a revolutionary, anti-diet approach to health and eating that focuses on the body's natural cues of hunger and fullness. But in order to fully transform your relationship with food, it is essential to understand why you use food as a coping mechanism. This workbook can help you get started.

This workbook offers the "next step" in Intuitive Eating--internal family systems (IFS) therapy--to help you heal the "parts" of yourself that use food or eating restriction for comfort, and transform your relationship with food and your body, once and for all. By combining the insight of IFS with the evidence-based practice of Intuitive Eating, you'll learn to approach food and mealtime with self-compassion and self-awareness. Most importantly, you'll identify and work through the underlying cause of your emotional or disordered eating.

With this compassionate guide, you'll:

• Heal the root cause of emotional eating
• Reject diet culture and fad eating habits
• Listen to your body's natural hunger cues
• Make peace with food and your body
• Reclaim a sense of wholeness

If you're ready to move beyond emotional eating, stop stressing about food, ditch diet culture, and develop unwavering respect for your body, this book will help you get started today.

Review Quotes

"As I read Kim Daniels's book, I imagined my inner eating system sitting under a beautiful tree, with my Self present, listening, as each part reflected on how it was impacted by one of the principles of Intuitive Eating: unconditional permission to eat. Daniels's integration of Internal Family Systems (IFS) and Intuitive Eating is gentle, as she takes the reader's hand and guides them through this healing work."
--Tammy Sollenberger, LCMHC, author of The One Inside

"Kim Daniels does a beautiful job explaining the IFS model and how it can be helpful in developing a more compassionate relationship with food. In her easy-to-read writing style and her reflective writing exercises, Kim helps the reader gain insight, understanding, and self-compassion."
--Sue Richmond, LCSW, IFS Lead Trainer

"Kim Daniels is a compassionate and no-nonsense guide to getting to know and healing your eating parts using IFS. Daniels offers clear direction for relearning eating skills, using the principles of Intuitive Eating integrated into parts work. This book is a road map for anyone who wants to calm the chaos around food in their minds and bodies, and eat in a self-led way."
--Cinnamon Holsclaw, LCSW, Certified IFS Therapist

"This is a comprehensive workbook that incorporates the most salient principles of IFS and Intuitive Eating into one valuable toolkit. This is a great resource for anyone who has been suffering from diet culture, disordered eating, and body-image issues. As a therapist who works in this specialty area, I see this workbook being very helpful to many individuals who struggle with these issues. I highly recommend it!"
--Elizabeth I. Rathbun, PsyD, CEDS, Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor and clinical psychologist in private practice

"Who doesn't need help finding peace with food? Using a dynamite combination of IFS and Intuitive Eating principles, Kim Daniels has written a smart, user-friendly guide to help us get to know and find peace with the conflicting inner voices we carry when it comes to food, chronic dieting, and body image. I know that's a mouthful--just get the book! Your parts will thank you."
--Colleen West, LMFT, author of We All Have Parts and The Internal Family Systems (IFS) Flip Chart

About the Author

Kimberly M. Daniels, PsyD, is a clinical psychologist who has specialized in treating disordered eating for more than twenty years. She is a certified level 2 trained Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapist, an approved IFS consultant, and a certified Intuitive Eating counselor. She is passionate about empowering women, and helping them to heal their relationship with food and their bodies once and for all. She lives near Hartford, CT.