The Food and Feelings Workbook, Karen R. Koenig, LCSW, M.Ed
The Food and Feelings Workbook, Karen R. Koenig, LCSW, M.Ed
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The Food and Feelings Workbook
A Full Course Meal on Emotional Health

Author: Karen R. Koenig, LCSW, M.Ed

Narrator: Robin J. Sitten

Unabridged: 8 hr 36 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 06/21/2022

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included

Synopsis

An extraordinary, powerful connection exists between feeling and feeding that, if damaged, may lead to one relying on food for emotional support, rather than seeking authentic happiness. This unique workbook takes on the seven emotions that plague problem eaters—guilt, shame, helplessness, anxiety, disappointment, confusion, and loneliness—and shows them how to embrace and learn from their feelings. Written with honesty and humor, the book explains how to identify and label a specific emotion, the function of that emotion, and why the emotion drives food and eating problems. Each chapter has two sets of exercises: experiential exercises that relate to emotions and eating, and questionnaires that provoke thinking about and understanding feelings and their purpose. Supplemental pages help identify emotions and chart emotional development. The final part of the workbook focuses on strategies for disconnecting feeling from food, discovering emotional triggers, and using one's feelings to get what one wants out of life.

About Karen R. Koenig, LCSW, M.Ed

Karen R. Koenig, LCSW, MEd, is a psychotherapist, eight-book author and blogger who has over thirty years of experience treating eating, weight, and body image issues. Her mission is to teach overeaters and undereaters how to eat naturally and instinctively. A cognitive-behavioral therapist, she has written numerous articles and essays on clinical issues for both local and national publications, and is an experienced, dynamic public speaker. At venues such as the Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology, Simmons College School of Social Work, the Massachusetts Dietetic Association, and the National Association of Social Workers, Koenig has also taught other professionals how to use her rules of "normal" eating model with their clients and patients. Since the 1980s she has been doing talks and workshops for the public in adult education programs, fitness facilities, libraries, and health and women's conferences. Karen resides in Sarasota, Florida, after previously living in Boston, Massachusetts.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Sarah on October 23, 2012

Karen Koenig is my new heroine. She writes from experience - her own with food, and with hundreds of clients. She knows this subject, she understands the pitfalls, the challenges, and the psychology behind them. The book is super because it is a workbook. By doing the questions, I found I got a deep......more

Goodreads review by Sydney on July 24, 2019

Very useful tool IF: approached with an open mind, coupled with therapy (ideally disordered eating specialized therapy), and with a grain of salt (and a noodle of pasta). Really useful in breaking down the complicated emotions tied to food and eating, and untangling the mess that leads to disordered......more

Goodreads review by Bobbi on March 21, 2024

Read this as a recommend for my my upcoming Bariatric surgery. Even if you are not an emotional eater, I highly recommend. It puts a lot into perspective and makes you think.......more

Goodreads review by mellyana on June 06, 2013

I don't read them page by page. I don't do all the exercises. Not good, right? I read the first two chapters and do the exercise and jump to the most suitable chapter. I did read all chapters in brief. I found read this book that way helped me get the benefit of it. It is important to get basic unde......more

Goodreads review by Maryann on December 22, 2019

Should be required reading. This books helps people who emotionally eat discover the emotions they are avoiding. The only book I've found that covers this important information.......more

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