Gentle Eating
A Guide to Recovering from Food Addiction
Skip Sauvain

ISBN 0-9676072-4-8

Description

Author Skip Sauvain used to diet, lose weight and gain it back again. But for the last 25 years, Sauvain, a therapist specializing in the treatment of eating disorders, has practiced a recovery program that specifically deals with food addiction and how to live in peace while rebuilding power with food.

Gentle Eating is a moment-to-moment guide that helps you in the process of recovering from food addiction. This can be the needed impetus you will use to begin each day in recovery from food addiction.

Target reading level: 11 years old and up, Paperback, ISBN: 0-9676072-4-8, 53 pages, Dimensions (in inches): 8 x 5.5 x 1.00.

Reviews

"Finally there is a heartfelt companion for effective healing from dieting, bingeing, purging and body image obsession. This work is a compassionate journey into the core of eating disorder pain and more importantly, provides direction toward genuine recovery. I love Skip Sauvain for his courage and insight. This book has given me guidance in my own path and has offered real hope for my clients. This volume offers a powerful light in the dark moments of the lives touched by the despair of eating disorders."

Mimi Leeds, M.D., ADTR, C.E.T.II

"Skip Sauvain has written a book that needs to be read by all those who struggle with issues of food addiction, self worth and recovery. A must book for laypersons and professionals."

Sharon Wegscheider-Cruse
President, ONSITE Training and consulting

"Recovery is a process--not an event. Gentle Eating is a wonderful method of both understanding and keeping one's self in the process of recovery. Skip has written an excellent book. If you have a problem with food, Gentle Eating is a book you can use to get you started...and to keep you on the right track to recovery."

Claudia Black, MSW, Ph. D.
Author of It Will Never Happen to Me and Changing Course