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I'm here to teach you how to stop starving yourself, dieting, bingeing, and overeating, and become a normal eater by followiing these 4 simple rule... (more...)
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It's hard to grow up in this culture, especially as a woman, and not feel extreme pressure to be thin.
That pressure, along with habitually using food in destructive ways, is a sure-fire recipe for heartbreak and disaster in the form of chronic dieting, and compulsive, emotional, and restrictive eating.
However, as a therapist, as well as a person who overcame decades of food challenges, diets, and binge-eating, I can say for certain that recovery is within the grasp of every problem eater.
In this lens, you'll find:
1. Recommendations for books on resolving your eating problems, including two of mine published by Gurze Books
2. Links to my website and eating disorder blogs
3. How to contact me to arrange for teletherapy by phone
4. A regularly updated schedule of my workshops, talks, and lectures
5. A wealth of free reading material
6. Two web-based support sites that are a cut above the rest
The resources you'll find here will help you become a normal eater and bring you the happiness, health, and success you so richly deserve.
For more information, see my website, Normal Eating.
Table of Contents
Find what you're looking for quick!
- What is normal eating?
- 2008 Talks and Workshops
- Podcasts
- Karen R. Koenig's books on Amazon.com
- Teletherapy
- Sarasota, Florida
- Therapy in the Sarasota area
- Normal Eating Blog
- Web sites with real help
- Authoritative message boards
- Thinking of joining one of the message boards?
- Are You a Normal Eater?
- Professional Experience
- Disclaimers
What is normal eating?
Whether you're a chronic dieter, overeater or binge eater, you can learn to eat normally...
What is normal eating?It's time to stop dieting and bingeing and learn the skills that normal eaters use instinctively every day to enjoy food and maintain a healthy body weight.
When you give up obsessing about calories, fat grams, and what you weigh and focus, instead, on what, when, and how much to eat, your natural mechanisms for feeding yourself will gradually kick in. Over time, you'll learn to trust your body and depend on your appetite to tell you when to say yes and no to food in just the right balance. Through trial and error, with awareness and practice, your appetite will guide you toward a comfortable, satisfying, pleasurable relationship with food and your body.
Using food appropriately will also free you up to connect to your feelings and create a life that embraces joy, success, wisdom, and meaning. As you learn to manage stress and bear distress without obsessing about food and weight, your self-esteem and self-confidence will grow and you'll find yourself going after--and getting--what you really want out of life.
2008 Talks and Workshops
Attend a talk or training or let me tailor one for your group or organization...
For more information or to register, please use the contact info for the venue of the event.Learn more about me at Eating Normal and Eating Disorders Blogs.
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MAY 29, 2008 11:30a-12:30p
Designing Women Boutique, Sarasota, FL: talk on "normal" eating and book signing, 941-366-5293
Podcasts
- VoiceAmerica
Breaking Free with Sarah Maria Dreisbach
Sarah Maria Dreisbach is a body-image expert and personal empowerment specialist who helps people love their bodies no matter how they look.
She leads workshops internationally and works one-on-one in consulting sessions to assist people in overcoming hatred and dissatisfaction with their bodies using holistic healing and spiritual principles.
View her web site at Breaking Free Beauty- Psychology and Self Help Books
The Food and Feelings Workbook: A Full Course Meal on Emotional Health
Interviews with authors of psychology and self help books.
Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Karen R. Koenig LCSW, M.Ed, about her book, The Food and Feelings Workbook: A Full Course Meal on Emotional Health published by Gurze Books.
See also Psychjourneypodcasts.com
Karen R. Koenig's books on Amazon.com
The Rules of "Normal" Eating: A Commonsense Approach for Dieters, Overeaters, Undereaters, Emotional Eaters, and Everyone in Between!
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Amazon Price: $10.17 (as of 05/11/2008)
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The Food and Feelings Workbook: A Full Course Meal on Emotional Health
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Amazon Price: $12.70 (as of 05/11/2008)
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What Every Therapist Needs to Know about Treating Eating and Weight Issues
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Amazon Price: $25.00 (as of 05/11/2008)
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Teletherapy
Need indivdiual help with your eating problems? I'm only a phone call away...
My mission in life is to help people overcome their eating problems.One way I do this is through telephone consultation sessions. Whether you're looking to get unstuck from unhealthy eating patterns or want to understand the underlying causes of your dysfunctional eating, I'll give you the attention and decades of experience I bring to my therapy practice, workshops, and books.
With day and evening times available, I'll even pay for the 60-minute call anywhere within the continental United States, and provide you with a post-session, comprehensive treatment plan to help you keep moving forward. You pay only my standard session fee.
Call (941) 379-9849 or contact me by email.
Sarasota, Florida
Therapy in the Sarasota area
Call (941) 379-9849 or contact me by email.
Normal Eating Blog
My Normal Eating blog is subscribable. Go there now: Normal Eating or view below the last five headlines.
You can click on the headlines, too.
What you're seeing here is an RSS feed to my blog.
Fetching RSS feed... please stand byWeb sites with real help
- Gurze Books
- Gurze Books is my publisher. They offer a variety of eating disorders resources.
Find more titles of books that lead to normal eating and normal living. - Normal Eating blog
- This is my Normal Eating blog, and it's subscribable.
Stay in touch with your desire to ditch the diet by signing up for this RSS feed. - The Normal Eating web site
- Learn more about me, my books, and my philosophy.
Find out how I can become your therapist, even if you live clear across the country from Sarasota, FL where I live and practice . - The Normal Eating blog
- This subscribable blog is part of the Diet Survivors materials.
Written by Linda Moran
Authoritative message boards
These two Yahoo! groups are run by professionals and are wildly successful. If you seek a warm, caring support group to help you become an autonomous eater, try these.
- Food and Feelings
- Do you "eat for emotional reasons"? Join this lively group run by Linda Moran (author of How to Survive Your Diet) and yours truly.
They're working from my new book, The Food and Feelings Workbook
- Diet Survivors
- Are you ready to ditch the diet mentality for good? It won't be as easy as simply switching to the "hunger and fullness" method.
All kinds of faulty beliefs entice us back to diets. On this board members help each other uncover distorted thinking and develop new replacement self-talk.
Find your own food wisdom here. Run by Linda Moran, author of How to Survive Your Diet with contributor yours truly and occasional surprise guest contributors.
Thinking of joining one of the message boards?
So you're considering joining a message board. That's the first step.
Tell us who you are here in this guestbook, and then come join one of the web communities I told you about.
Food and Feelings: Solve your emotional eating
Diet Survivors: Replace your old habits with new ones
Karen I love your Normal Eating book! What an excellent message to get out to the public. I am also in recovery and I am obtaining my Masters in Counseling. I would love to help spread the word any suggestions?
Posted January 12, 2008
Hi, I love this book and am interested in your message board for more resources
Posted December 30, 2007
Hi Karen, Happy to know normal eating.
Posted August 05, 2007
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Gaia
Great lens! 5 stars. Please feel free to join my eating disorders Squidoo Group Posted July 12, 2007 |
Hi Karen, I read about your lens on dietsurvivors and I really appreciate all the info you are offering! I just joined "Food and Feelings" and plan on getting both of your books asap!
Posted March 06, 2007
Hi Karen. Linda Moran here. I'm signing your guestbook just to tell you how excited I am about your new book and its accompanying Food and Feelings message board. I think your book has real answers for those who are ready.
Posted February 20, 2007
Are You a Normal Eater?
TAKE THIS SIMPLE TEST AND FIND OUT...
Circle one answer in each section:___________________________________________
HUNGER
1. I often eat when I'm not hungry, but just want to stuff something into my mouth.
2. I try to deny my hunger and hope it goes away.
3. I usually eat whenever I'm moderately hungry.
CHOOSING FOODS
1. I go for high-calorie, high-fat, high-carb, "bad" foods.
2. I eat only low-calorie, low-fat, low-carb, "good" foods.
3. I eat a combination of foods based on my hunger level and what I enjoy.
ENJOYING EATING
1. I eat so fast, feel so guilty, or am so tuned out when I eat that I rarely enjoy food.
2. I don't think about food as enjoyable or nourishing, only how it will affect my weight.
3. I generally find eating a pleasurable experience.
FULLNESS AND SATISFACTION
1. I often eat way past full and/or satisfied and end up eating too much.
2. I eat as little as possible and rarely feel satisfied after eating.
3. I usually stop eating when I am pleasantly full or satisfied.
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Evaluate Your Answers:
If you most often checked off the first box in each section, it's likely that you're an emotional, compulsive overeater.
If you most often checked off the second box in each section, it's likely that you're a chronic dieter or restrictive undereater.
If you most often checked off the third box in each section, it's likely that you're a "normal" eater.
If you checked off a mixture of first and second boxes, it's likely that you yo-yo between dieting and binge-eating.
Professional Experience
Karen R. Koenig, LCSW, M.Ed., is a psychotherapist, educator, international author, and motivational speaker--an expert in the psychology of eating--who has worked in the field of compulsive, emotional, and restrictive eating for over 25 years.She is a co-founder of the Greater Boston Collaborative for Body Image and Eating Disorders and a former member of the Professional Advisory Committee of the Massachusetts Eating Disorder Association.
Using a simple, cognitive-behavioral treatment approach to changing beliefs, feelings, and behavior, Karen is on a mission to teach people who are food challenged how to stop struggling with food and weight issues and get on with life.
During the past three decades, she has counseled and provided "Quit Fighting with Food" workshops to hundreds of over- and undereaters.
She has conducted professional trainings for institutions and organizations such as the Sarasota Adult and Community Education Program, the Massachusetts Eating Disorder Association, Bayside Center for Behavioral Health, the National Association of Social Workers, the Massachusetts Dietetic Association, the Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology, Sarasota Memorial Hospital, Simmons College and Boston University Schools of Social Work, and TWICE Educational Services to teach therapists and nutritionists how to help their clients overcome their eating problems.
Her essays and articles have appeared in Positive Change, Attitudes, Social Work Focus, Social Work Today, The Boston Globe, The Boston Herald, The West Roxbury Transcript, Equal Times, Single Living, and The Newsletter for the Society for Family Therapy and Research.
She received a B.A. from Boston University, an M.Ed. from Antioch College, and an M.S.W. from Simmons College School of Social Work. She currently lives, teaches, and practices in Sarasota, Florida.
Disclaimers
1. I am not responsible for any ads on this lens and do ignore the ones having anything to do with dieting.2. The information found on this lens is meant for educational purposes only and is not a substitute for receiving professional help for an eating disorder.
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