Self-Help : Life Without Ed How One Woman Declared Independence from Her Eating Disorder and How You Can Too
The Eating Disorders Sourcebook: A Comprehensive Guide to the Causes, Treatments, and Prevention of Eating Disorders (Sourcebooks) | 
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 good book, plenty of good info
A great good that gives a good understand about how people can easily get into eating disorders. My wife has been dealing with this issue for several years now. I haven't finished the book, but I will write another review when I finish so I can let you all know my insights to this matter.
 Helpful for friends and family, not those suffering
Life Without Ed is a wonderful book if you are trying explain to a loved one what having an eating disorder is like. As a recovering anorexic and bulimic, I would recommend this only to loved ones, not to women suffering from a disorder. While the book gives glimmers of hope, it is also very triggering. There were often parts in the book where Jennie would describe an eating disordered behavior that I had not tried before. If you are looking for a recovery book, this is not for you. I would recommend "Eating in the Light of the Moon" or "Goodbye Ed, Hello Me".
Excellent Book for all Eating Disorder Sufferers
Jenni writes with candid insight into the experience of living with and recovering from an eating disorder. A must read for all who seek to recover from eating disorders! Exceptionally inspirational!
~Jacquelyn Ekern, MS, LPC
Director @ Eating Disorder Hope
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Wonderful!
I love this book! It is the only book that I have read that fully explains how eating disorder thinking is! I had my eating disorder for 7 years and have been in recovery for 4 years. I feel like this is well written and helpful. I am a therapist and this book also helps when working with those with eating disorders.
Life Changin
Quite bluntly, this book changed my life. Jenni allowed me to see that life beyond what I was living was possible and told me the real stuff to do. She was not my therapist and never tried to be, this is not a book that is a stand alone answer to your eating disorder. She is very upfront about that. It is a book you should read while in therapy, but it is real and unlike many self-help books, manageable. It doesn't overwhelm you, and tells you what to do when you stumble, which is a very real part of recovery. Eating disorders are a unique illness, and only someone who has heard Ed, lived with Ed and thrown Ed out can really understand what she is saying. It is also a great book for family and friends who don't understand why just eating won't solve the problem. She gets the tricks and traps of the illness, the bizarre comfort of the illness and the terror of letting it go-even as it is slowly killing you. Jenni Schaeffer also has numerous other resources, including blogs, speaking engagements, and a follow up book that gives hope for a recovered life. When you feel you have tried everything and there is no way out, this book tells you something new to try. Her small steps, journal suggestions and personal stories really help-its like having another friend in a support group (the one you should be going to but might not be). One of the best parts of this book is that Jenni addresses the very real fears of an eating disorder and tells you how to seperate your fears from Ed's-those are very helpful for recovery. Her humor helps keep the book moving and keeps the very dreary day-today work of recovery from being as overwhelming as it is. For those of us who have been there, Jenni is the movie star of recovery.
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