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Chasing Silhouettes: How to Help a Loved One Battling an Eating Disorder
Chasing Silhouettes: How to Help a Loved One Battling an Eating Disorder
Emily T. Wierenga
September 25, 2012
ISBN-10 : 0984009558
Wierenga, Emily T. Chasing Silhouettes: How to Help a Loved One Battling an Eating Disorder. Ampelon Publishing, 2012.
In Chasing Silhouettes, Emily Wierenga was a home-schooled pastor’s daughter who wasn’t allowed to play with Barbies or dance. Her mum made sure there would be nothing that could tempt her daughter to be vain or to contract an eating disorder.
So she went ahead and got one anyway. At the age of nine, Emily began to restrict her food intake, and by the time she was 13, she was so severely anorexic nurses were surprised she was still alive.
Chasing Silhouettes is the story of a broken family that finds healing through an eating disorder. It’s the story of how even good Christians need redemption, and how eating disorders pervade all homes—even the seemingly perfect ones.
A unique resource, it addresses the whole of the illness: physical, mental, emotional and spiritual, providing a shocking insight into the disordered eater’s mind that no other book will provide.
In addition to a stirring personal narrative, Chasing Silhouettes is comprised of advice from some of the nation’s top eating disorder experts, sample prayers for when yours run out, as well as stories of others who’ve battled—and overcome—eating disorders.
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