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Moving Beyond Depression
By Dr. Gregory L. Jantz with Ann McMurray @ www.aplaceofhope.com
In the past, people who arrived at the crossroad of depression had only two escape routes: they could "get-over-it" or "medicate it." If neither of these paths effectively led to recovery, the person stayed on a dead-end path indefinitely. At some point, the frustration caused some sufferers to leave the path of life altogether. Is it any wonder new answers for depression are needed?
People arrive at the point of depression from many different places, indicating a variety of paths to recovery. In short, there is no one answer for depression and no single path to recovery. Just as the reasons for depression are as varied as the individuals who suffer from it, the paths to recovery will also be unique to each individual.
Not every person suffering from depression should be medicated.
Not every person who has a bad day is depressed.
Not every person who struggles over meaning and purpose in life should be viewed as "crazy."
Not every person is able to bounce back from a major traumatic event without assistance.
In order to deal with an individual's depression, his or her uniqueness, his or her story, must be heard, understood, and integrated into a personalized recovery.
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Dr. Jantz has generously donated 10 books to be given away in this drawing!
DRAWING ENDS February 15, 2012. Please complete the contact form with your name, address and email. Then enter "Moving Beyond Depression" in message, and you will automatically be entered into our February 15, 2011 drawing!
Hollow: An Unpolished Tale
by Jena Morrow
"29 years, 7 months, 14 days and the battle still rages...Jena Morrow has an eating disorder. It can kill her. Jena Morrow has a Savior. He came to give her abundant life.
This is not a polished tale of victory but an honest, true story of fragility. Hollow recounts Jena's daily struggle with anorexia and the God who is able and willing to reach down into the dirt. A central theme of Hollow is the surrender of control to Jesus Christ. His Word is interwoven throughout the story as rebuttals to the lies that besiege those engaged in any addiction. In addition to her point of view, Jena includes those of her friends, family, and former therapists providing an undercurrent of hope.
Written in an easy conversational voice, Hollow will resonate with those in the midst of a struggle and those who stand beside them."
Interview of Jena Morrow: A Look at Faith and Spirituality in Mental Health
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Featured Inspiring, Hope Filled Recovery Books by Dr. Gregory Jantz ~ Founder of The Center
A Place of Hope
Hope, Help and Healing for Eating Disorders
By Dr. Gregory L. Jantz with Ann McMurray @ www.aplaceofhope.com
When I first wrote Hope, Help and Healing for Eating Disorders, I did so out of a deep desire to help those suffering from anorexia, bulimia and compulsive overeating. These were people with faces I saw every day at my practice. Writing the book allowed me to support people all over the United States and around the world in their recovery.
This latest revision to that first edition still speaks strongly to those suffering from recognized eating disorders but it also includes those with what I call disordered eating. It's no longer a question of whether someone has an eating disorder diagnosis but whether or not food has found its proper place as nutrition in your life. Food is meant to be your ally, meant to strength and sustain you; it was never meant to be your enemy, your lover, your friend, or whatever you substitute it for.
Though the title has changed slightly, it still begins with the word, Hope. This remains to be what so many people want and need in order to change, to grow, to overcome and recover.
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Moving Beyond Depression
By Dr. Gregory L. Jantz with Ann McMurray @ www.aplaceofhope.com
In the past, people who arrived at the crossroad of depression had only two escape routes: they could "get-over-it" or "medicate it." If neither of these paths effectively led to recovery, the person stayed on a dead-end path indefinitely. At some point, the frustration caused some sufferers to leave the path of life altogether. Is it any wonder new answers for depression are needed?
People arrive at the point of depression from many different places, indicating a variety of paths to recovery. In short, there is no one answer for depression and no single path to recovery. Just as the reasons for depression are as varied as the individuals who suffer from it, the paths to recovery will also be unique to each individual.
Not every person suffering from depression should be medicated.
Not every person who has a bad day is depressed.
Not every person who struggles over meaning and purpose in life should be viewed as "crazy."
Not every person is able to bounce back from a major traumatic event without assistance.
In order to deal with an individual's depression, his or her uniqueness, his or her story, must be heard, understood, and integrated into a personalized recovery.
Purchase @ A Place of Hope Bookstore
Every Woman's Guide to Managing Your Anger
By Dr. Gregory L. Jantz with Ann McMurray @ www.aplaceofhope.com
Women juggle the bowling balls of family and finances, children and schedules, church and community, work inside and outside the home. Within this time-pressured vise, self-care and personal reflection get squeezed out. Over time, each new responsibility, each additional task can feed the flame of anger and resentment. Injuries and pain of the past weaken the ability to bounce back from frustrating, difficult or stressful situations. Old wounds, unhealed, break open afresh with present problems. This pain hurts; when you get hurt, you get angry.
Anger can be an empowering, supercharged emotion shielding a person from the inevitable darts of life. But like a drug used to cope in the short-term, anger creates an impossible situation long-term. What do you do when your repertoire of responses grows shorter and shorter, with more and more synonyms for rage? What do you do when anger is all you think you have left to feel?
Welcome to Every Woman's Guide to Anger. This book addresses the unique situations and pressures that contribute to anger in women. Women have unique reasons for their anger; to counter these you need to marshal unique resources to overcome anger and live a life of contentment and peace.
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Healing the Scars of Emotional Abuse
By Dr. Gregory L. Jantz with Ann McMurray @ www.aplaceofhope.com
The signs of emotional abuse are easy to overlook. There is no scar tissue to stretch, no bruises to yellow and heal, no gaping wound to point to. In spite of their invisibility, emotional wounds comprise a very damaging form of abuse.
While emotional abuse always accompanies physical and sexual abuse, it can also be present on its own. Because its implications have been overlooked, it's been left to do its damage in silence. The abused have no recourse but to wonder why they just can't seem to get their lives on track.
Each will think back to his or her childhood and won't be able to come up with a single time they were back-handed across the room or left alone with no food, or forced to do something "naughty" in secret. They conclude they were never abused and delve no further into the past to discover why their present doesn't seem to be working. But just as physical and sexual abuse have signposts to mark their presence, emotional abuse, being a systematic attack on one's sense of self, has common traits and runs the gamut of intensity and damage.
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Gotta Have It! Freedom from wanting everything right here, right now
By Dr. Gregory L. Jantz with Ann McMurray @ www.aplaceofhope.com
This book is about needs and wants, about the excessities of life, which is a made-up word for a very real situation for many people. Excessities occur when our excesses become necessities. This book is about the compulsion to overindulge in any number of bizarre, comical and not-so-funny behaviors. Excessity is the Gotta Have It! impulse that throws caution to the wind and demands immediate satisfaction. It is the blindness that occurs when comfort becomes more important than consequences.
Gotta Have It! shows up in a variety of shapes and sizes, each excessity taking on the unique characteristics of the person who creates it. This book looks at it, not from the safety of a front page story about someone else, but close up, right now, in our own lives and the lives of those we love.
Excessity is, at the heart, about feeding our wants and desires, while at the same time starving our true needs. The more we starve what we really need, the greater our hunger grows so we stuff ourselves with more and more of our wants. We stuff ourselves full of our wants and still find that we're starving, empty and desperate.
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Happy for the Rest of Your Life
By Dr. Gregory L. Jantz with Ann McMurray @ www.aplaceofhope.com
Okay, maybe the title is a little presumptuous, but it's intriguing also, isn't it? (Happy for the Rest of Your Life – is that really possible? And is that happiness for all of life or just parts of it? What does he mean by happy? Giddiness? Contentment? Cheerfulness? Glee? Delight? Those aren't words I normally associate with my life!)
Deep down, though, doesn't everyone want to be happy for life? While there may be one or two hiding out somewhere, reveling in despair, most people want to be happy. They may not, deep down, think it's possible but it's still a deep-seated desire – a sort of wishful thinking, someday, maybe, if only, kind of desire. So, some may feel Happy for the Rest of Your Life is a bit presumptuous as a title; others may feel Happy for the Rest of Your, as a concept, is a bit presumptuous for your own life. But the Happy in the title isn't just some sort of generic happiness for some unnamed person's life; it's meant for you, today, in your own life, right in the midst of whatever circumstances you find yourself in. It is possible but it's not necessarily easy.
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Becoming Strong Again
by Dr. Gregory Jantz @ www.aplaceofhope.com
People from all walks of life are experiencing a singular problem in this technology-ridden, fast-paced world: exhaustion! Whether you are overworked, struggling to juggle career and family, suffering from low self-esteem, grief, or loss, or just feeling stuck on a never-ending treadmill, Becoming Strong Again can help you revitalize your emotional health. Dr. Jantz offers a solid guide for regaining emotional, physical, and spiritual strength in this highly compassionate and readable book. He examines numerous ways to "clean house, " allowing for a fresh and healthy perspective. By escaping self-defeating trappings, balance and strength can be restored. "When you admit that most of your fears are home-grown, " writes the author, "you can then make the decision to stop feeding them, pull them up by the roots, and become strong again." Because practically everyone has experienced emotional exhaustion, Becoming Strong Again will speak to people in all age groups, professions, and circumstances. Purchase @ A Place of Hope Bookstore
The Total Temple Makeover
By Dr. Gregory Jantz with Ann McMurray
While the world reels with an ever-growing array of lose-weight-quick schemes, Dr. Gregory Jantz applies common sense and spiritual encouragement to lead readers on a reasonable, realistic path to healthier living.
Unlike the radical and even dangerous tactics that often captivate those who hunger for dramatic change, Jantz advocates a gentle twelve-week program, which considers the whole person, not just body weight.
This comprehensive approach incorporates scripture study, prayer, and journaling, as well as nutrition, food-consumption plans, and body maintenance with the intention of reshaping a person's self-image in addition to dropping inches in the waistline.
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Healthy Habits, Happy Kids: A Practical Plan to Help Your Family Get Moving, Trim Down, Stay Fit Are unhealthy habits weighing your family down? Despite what your children may think, fast-food French fries are not a vegetable, a balanced meal is not found in their school's vending machine, and activity is important. Because of poor nutrition decisions, kids today are gaining more weight, are susceptible to more stress, and are connecting less. But it's not too late to help your kids achieve a healthy, happy childhood. Healthy Habits, Happy Kids will show you how to: This whole-person approach to staying fit considers not only the physical health of your kids but also their emotional, relational, and spiritual health. Whether your family needs to completely change course or make minor adjustments, this book will help you create the well-balanced, healthy-living plan your entire family needs. |
More Inspiring Books by Various Authors
Beating Ana: How to Outsmart Your Eating Disorder and Take Your Life Back
Imagine a world where it is easy to find someone to turn to who understands your struggles, identifies with your wounds, and knows how lonely and scary it feels to live inside your skin.
In this fantastic brave new world, you would face your eating disorder head on, standing tall and firm with supportive friends by your side as you get better—and stay that way! In Beating Ana, Shannon Cutts opens the door to this world as she introduces you to a whole new way of thinking about and recovering from your eating disorder.
Shannon understands firsthand the total isolation, dead-end thinking, and exhausting mind tricks that eating disorders confine you to and has found a way to break free from her own 15-year battle with eating-disordered thinking and living—for good—through the powerful process of mentoring and connecting together.
From the very first page of Beating Ana, you will experience the empowering joy of sharing your recovery process with others as Shannon guides you with the same techniques she developed to achieve her own lasting recovery and has since passed along to her own mentees. You will walk with Shannon through the recovery process as you read private correspondence from five of her longtime mentees and participate right along with them in self-quizzes, short exercises, motivational affirmations, and journaling that is specifically designed to give you the courage, support, and tangible skills to say "no" to your eating disorder and "yes" to your life!
Shannon Cutts is the founder of MentorCONNECT, a community where mentors and mentees can connect to experience the power of mentoring, and Key to Life: unlocking the door to hope, an organization that offers events, workshops, concerts, and products and services to facilitate recovery from eating and related disorders. Contact the author about both organizations at www.key-to-life.com or www.mentorconnect-ed.org
Purchase Beating Ana or Learn more about MentorConnect
Life Beyond Your Eating Disorder: Reclaim Yourself, Regain Your Health, Recover for Good
@ Johanna S. Kandel
There is life beyond your eating disorder—and you deserve to enjoy every minute of it.
Johanna S. Kandel, founder and executive director of The Alliance for Eating Disorders Awareness, struggled with her eating disorder for ten years before finally getting help. Now fully recovered, Kandel knows firsthand how difficult the healing process can be. Through her work with The Alliance—leading support groups, speaking nationwide and collaborating with professionals in the field—she's developed a set of practical tools to address the everyday challenges of recovery.
Life Beyond Your Eating Disorder is your ultimate guidebook for the journey back to health,
filled with the hope, insight and tools you need to:
· Stop self-sabotage and sidestep triggers
· Quiet the eating-disordered voice
· Strengthen the healthy, positive voice
· Let go of all-or-nothing thinking
· Overcome fear and embrace change
· Stay motivated and keep moving forward
Complete with inspiring true stories from others who have won their personal battles with eating disorders, this book provides the help you need to break free from your eating disorder and discover how wonderful life really can be.
Purchase here: Life Beyond Your Eating Disorder: Reclaim Yourself, Regain Your Health, Recover for Good
Learn more about the Alliance for Eating Disorder Awareness
Goodbye Ed, Hello Me: Recover from Your Eating Disorder and Fall in Love with Life
(McGraw-Hill) by Jenni Schaefer
Don't Battle an Eating Disorder Forever—Recover from It Completely
Jenni Schaefer and Ed (eating disorder) are no longer on speaking terms, not even in her most difficult moments. In her bestseller, Life Without Ed, Jenni learned to treat her eating disorder as a relationship, not a condition — enabling her to break up with Ed.
In Goodbye Ed, Hello Me Jenni shows you that being fully recovered is not just about breaking free from destructive behaviors with food and having a healthy relationship with your body; it also means ?nding joy and peace in your life.
Combining Jenni's signature personal advice and unfailing encouragement along with valuable exercises you can do as you read, Goodbye Ed, Hello Me will give you the prescriptive tools to take the ?nal steps in divorcing your Ed completely.
Lynn Grefe, CEO of the National Eating Disorders Association, says, "Jenni may someday be named the trend-setter for the miraculous word "recovered.'"
Purchase here:Goodbye Ed, Hello Me: Recover from Your Eating Disorder and Fall in Love with Life
The Body Image Workbook: An Eight-Step Program for Learning to Like Your Looks
(1997) Thomas Cash
An exceptionally helpful book written by one of the top authorities in the USA on body image issues. Used by clinicians frequently to help their clients address body image concerns, weight obsessions, and other body fixations that are harmful to the individual. A must read for anyone seeking to build a better body image!
purchase here:The Body Image Workbook: An Eight-Step Program for Learning to Like Your Looks
Dying to Be Thin: Understanding and Defeating Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia--A Practical, Lifesaving Guide
(2001 updated) Sacker, I. M., & Zimmer, M. (Warner Books)
A highly regarded book in the field of eating disorder treatment. Useful to both eating disorder sufferers and family members. Understandable and inspirational.
A must read for anyone wanting a practical guide on eating disorder recovery!
purchase here:Dying to Be Thin: Understanding and Defeating Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia--A Practical, Lifesaving Guide
Overcoming Overeating: How to Break the Diet/Binge Cycle and Live a Healthier, More Satisfying Life
(1998) Jane R. Hirschmann, & Carol H. Munter (Random House)
Interesting guide to overcoming overeating by listening to one's body and trusting hunger and fullness sensations. Hailed by many as the essential read for those seeking to give up dieting forever and make peace with food and their body.
purchase here: Overcoming Overeating: How to Break the Diet/Binge Cycle and Live a Healthier, More Satisfying Life
Eating Disorders: A Handbook of Christian Treatment
New Treatment Guide for Eating Disorders Available to Healthcare Professionals
Remuda Programs for Eating Disorders, the nation's leading and largest inpatient treatment center for women and girls suffering from eating disorders, has published Eating Disorders: A Handbook of Christian Treatment, a comprehensive guide to the mysterious world of eating disorders. The handbook explains eating disorders, along with proper assessment and intervention, across the bio-psycho-social-spiritual continuum. It was written by a multidisciplinary team to be of value to a broad range of healthcare and pastoral professionals, practitioners, educators and students. The handbook offers state-of-the-art, scientifically valid knowledge of anorexia and bulimia nervosa, integrated carefully with non-denominational Christianity.
Life Without Ed: How One Woman Declared Independence from Her Eating Disorder and How You Can Too
Jenni had been in an abusive relationship with Ed for far too long. Ed's name comes from the initials E.D. - as in eating disorder. He controlled Jenni's life, distorted her self-image, and tried to physically harm her throughout their long affair. Then Jenni met psychotherapist and author Thom Rutledge. He taught her how to treat her eating disorder as a relationship, not a condition. By thinking of her eating disorder as a unique personality separate from her own, Jenni was able to break up with Ed once and for all.
Inspiring, compassionate, and filled with practical exercises to help you break up with your own personal E.D., Life Without Ed provides new hope for the disorders that plague millions of women and young girls. Beginning with Jenni's "divorce" from Ed, this supportive, lifesaving book combines a patient's insights and experiences with a therapist's prescriptions for success to help you live a healthier, happier life without Ed.
purchase here:Life Without Ed: How One Woman Declared Independence from Her Eating Disorder and How You Can Too
When Your Child Has an Eating Disorder: A Step-By-Step Workbook for Parents and Other Caregivers
by Abagail Natenshon
A Step-by-Step Workbook for Parents and Other Caregivers. It educates and supports you, the parent, as you learn to support and heal your child. A must-read for every parent whose child may be dealing with an eating disorder, or is susceptible to developing one.
purchase here: When Your Child Has an Eating Disorder: A Step-By-Step Workbook for Parents and Other Caregivers
Eating with Your Anorexic: How My Child Recovered Through Family-Based Treatment and Yours Can Too
by Laura Collins(McGraw-Hill, 2005). Foreword by Dr. James Lock, Director of the Eating Disorders Program at Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford. Inspired by the Maudsley approach, the Collins family learned to treat heir daughter's anorexia nervosa with a medicine universally available: food. Plus some love, common sense, and a few laughs.
purchase here:Eating with Your Anorexic: How My Child Recovered Through Family-Based Treatment and Yours Can Too
The Rules of "Normal" Eating - A Commonsense Approach for Dieters, Overeaters, Undereaters, Emotional Eaters, and Everyone in Between!
by Karen R. Koenig, LICSW, M.Ed., is for anyone who wants to improve their relationship with food and reach and maintain a comfortable, healthy weight. It teaches the four basic rules that "normal" eaters use every day naturally and instinctively to enjoy food without being a slave to the scale. Written in every day language with humor and compassion and using a cognitive-behavioral approach, The Rules is a comprehensive guide to ending food obsession, chronic dieting, binge-eating, and yo-yoing weights.
by Abigail H. Natenshon, MA, LCSW, GCFP (NASW Press November,2009)
Doing What Works: an Integrative System for the Treatment of Eating Disorders from Diagnosis to Recovery combines evidence-based research and treatment protocols with the art of the quality therapeutic relationship to provide integrative and practicable applications for the treatment of eating disorders. This reader-friendly book is the first of its kind to offer readers a coherent and sequential system for approaching and successfully managing these complex cases from start to finish.
You Are Not Alone, Volume 2
The Book of Companionship for Women with Eating Disorders
You Are Not Alone, Volume 2 (plus Companion CD) by eating disorder survivors Andrea Roe and Shannon Cutts, is an inspiring collection of personal recovery stories, poems, artwork, and song lyrics by women who are either in recovery or fully recovered from an eating disorder. Also included is the You Are Not Alone Companion CD filled with healing songs by women whose lives have been touched by eating disorders.
What People Are Saying About You Are Not Alone, Volume 2:
"To know that others have struggled just as much and that they cannot 'only' survive, but thrive and live a better life, is truly inspiring." -- Ashley P from Canada is in recovery from an eating disorder.
"Read these stories and be encouraged; you will see the journey of healing can be made! Andrea brings us all together so we remember we are not alone. There is Hope." --Gregory L. Jantz, Ph.D. Bestselling Author, Speaker, Therapist, and Founder of The Center for Counseling and Health Resources.
purchase here: http://www.youarenotalonebook.com/youarenotalonevol2.php
