Breaking Negative Eating Patterns and Remembering Your True Self

This book is a practical self-help manual that provides step-by-step guidance on applying schema therapy for eating disorders and eating difficulties.Structured in two parts, the book addresses how to overcome the thinking, emotional and behavioural patterns that drive eating difficulties, using powerful experiential strategies for change. It helps readers understand the factors that drive and maintain their eating and body-image patterns and offers effective techniques for overcoming them. Readers will learn to reconnect with their authentic self that lies beneath these protective patterns, discovering new ways to meet their deepest needs. Templates and worksheets provide useful resources that support recovery.The first of its kind, this book supports those suffering from eating disorders and serves as a reference and adjunct to face-to-face therapy for therapists and clinicians.

Susan Simpson, DClinPsy, is an Australian Clinical Psychologist and Schema Therapist who has lived and worked in Scotland for over 25 years. She is both a clinician and researcher, specialising in whole-person trauma-informed approaches to eating disorders, and is co-author of clinician guides Schema Therapy for Eating Disorders (Routledge) and the Cambridge Guide to Schema Therapy (Cambridge Univ. Press).