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Similar to my experience with your other book, I enthusiastically savored every nourishing word! I just love how the book explains, organizes, demystifies, and humanizes eating disorder treatment and recovery.
This book has already informed and shaped the therapy sessions I have held since reading it. I feel like I've been channeling it in all my recent sessions! Motivation, Patience, and Hope Key 2: It's Not About the Food Key 4: Changing Your Behaviors Key 7: Finding Meaning and Purpose Flavoring each of these courses are highly informative, well-organized, easy-to-digest, and satisfying explanations of all aspects of the eating disorder recovery process. For example, the beginning of the book provides a birdseye view of the ten phases of eating disorder recovery pp.
I don't think I have a problem. I might have a problem but it's not that bad. I have a problem but I don't care. I want to change but I don't know how and I'm scared. I tried to change but I couldn't. I can stop some of the behaviors but not all of them. I can stop the behaviors, but not my thoughts. I am often free from behaviors and thoughts, but not all the time. I am free from behaviors and thoughts.
After guiding the reader through the stages of change and integration of the recovery process during which the eating disorder self and healthy self merge into a fully integrated person , the book provides an informative and fascinating exploration of the 14 key issues underlying eating disorders pp. Need for distraction 3. Longing to fill up emptiness 4. Belief in a myth 5. Drive for perfection 6. Need to be in control 9. Desire for respect and admiration Difficulty expressing feelings Fear of not measuring up The book is also packed with practical tools and techniques for managing eating disorder behaviors, including conscious eating guidelines, the hunger scale, and ways to move through the three-step process of feeling, challenging, and changing.
Supplementing these how-to's is the spiritual component of the book which recognizes the complexity and depth of eating disorders. In the authors' own words p. This involves turning your attention to matters of spirituality and soul.
You will no longer have an eating disorder self but instead be living your life as a fully whole integrated person. You will understand your issues but no longer use eating disorder behaviors to cope. You will feel your feelings and know how to challenge your thoughts. You will eat freely—but consciously—what you want, and no longer use scales or diets to dictate your eating.
You will continue to be aware of and work on any problematic behaviors that need to change. You will get your needs met from your relationships rather than your eating disorder. You will live a soul-led life that brings you meaning and purpose. As a therapist, I highly, highly recommend this book for anyone struggling with an eating disorder, and for all of those who support them during the recovery process. The content of the book feeds the mind and provides guidelines to follow for feeding the soul.
In the end, it's possible for anyone to arrive at the destination of one of the clients featured in the book who pledges that p. May 21, Nicole France rated it it was amazing. I love this book for eating disorder recovery.
It was written by people who clearly understand and appreciate the suffering of EDs. The exercises are fantastic - even to do over and over again from different perspectives.
The insight is incredible and totally relatable. This book is great to complete whether first thinking about recovery or further down the line where total recovery is imminent. I would highly recommend this book to anyone suffering from an eating disorder or body image distorti I love this book for eating disorder recovery. I would highly recommend this book to anyone suffering from an eating disorder or body image distortion. Mar 24, Anna rated it it was amazing. The most life-changing book I think I have and will ever have read. So many lines resonated with me; it was as if I was reading my own diary at times.
If you are struggling with an eating disorder, I cannot even begin to explain how much this book can aid in your recovery. Good luck and beauty is as deep as the soul. Dec 12, Amy Grossman rated it it was amazing. Carolyn Costin was a life saving, powerful force and, a guardian angel, who helped make recovery possible for me. This book is inspiring and a learning tool. I have not read a book in the eating disorder genre as amazing as this.
Thank you, Carolyn and Gwenn. Jul 28, Jen rated it it was amazing. Oct 22, Kate Conroy rated it it was amazing. Monte Nido was founded by Carolyn Costin, the author of 8 Keys. The eight keys are exactly what they sound like: It also includes journal prompts to help you actively engage with each key. The unique part is that they say the eating disorder self part of you is not a bad part of you.
And it needs something. You have to nurture that part of you, not get rid of it. But you need to nurture it with more positive and healthy coping skills until it has merged with your healthy self. I was also particularly struck by the section on weighing. Costin stresses that it is absolutely essential that a person with an eating disorder stop weighing themselves completely. All my past therapists have told me to weigh myself times a week in the morning. I had never in my life considered just never weighing myself again. But now that the idea has been introduced to me, I realize that, as incredibly frightening as that thought is, that might just be the only way to really stick to my recovery.
So, this is a thank you to Carolyn. Thank you for creating this book that has helped me see my behaviors, thoughts, and feelings in a new way, and thank you for creating this home for me to heal myself for the next three months. Feb 23, Vi rated it it was amazing Shelves: This is possibly the best eating disorder "self help" type book one can get their hands on.
The authors talk the reader through experiences they have had with their own eating disorders, and how they have helped clients with eating disorders. There are optional journal entries for the reader to do as well throughout the book, to help deal with their own eating disorder. This book is tailored for all potential eating disorders, NOT being restricted to anorexia and bulimia like so many other eati This is possibly the best eating disorder "self help" type book one can get their hands on. This book is tailored for all potential eating disorders, NOT being restricted to anorexia and bulimia like so many other eating disorder books do.
Jul 05, Lyndsey rated it it was amazing. This books was really good, and really helpful. It held a lot of great insights as to why your eating disorder exists, and it gives you tools to rewire your brain to overcome it. And it didn't have "you just have to do this and presto!
No more eating disorder! Really fantastic book for those who are suffering from eating disorders and want to recov This books was really good, and really helpful. Really fantastic book for those who are suffering from eating disorders and want to recover, or even for those who want to understand eating disorders better.
Sep 15, Jodie rated it it was amazing Shelves: It takes a totally balanced and holistic view towards becoming fully recovered. A wonderful resource for those suffering, as well as therapists.
Dec 01, Adriana rated it it was amazing. What a truely powerful book. I highly recommend this book to those who suffer from an eating disorder. Good advice I thought it was a very good book for those with eating disorders. It should be real helpful. I enjoyed learning about the topic. Jun 02, Elizabeth Bradshaw rated it it was amazing. This is probably the single most helpful book on ED recovery I have ever read.
I would recommend it to anyone I know who struggles with an eating disorder or body image in general.
8 Keys to Recovery from an Eating Disorder: Effective Strategies from Therapeutic Practice and Personal Experience (8 Keys to Mental Health) “ Carolyn Costin is the first person who ever looked me in the eyes and said, You can be fully. Editorial Reviews. Review. Carolyn Costin was my eating disorder therapist, and I credit her 8 Keys to Recovery from an Eating Disorder: Effective Strategies from Therapeutic Practice and Personal Experience (8 Keys to Mental This book is for; the person in eating disorders recovery, the caregivers whether they are.
Oct 26, Renee Ramos rated it really liked it. This is an excellent, practical book for anyone struggling with an eating disorder. This is why they encourage readers to explore the chapters in random order. As shown in the quote, they directly speak to you as a reader, so you feel quite intimate with them. To make it even more personal, the authors encourage readers to keep a journal to document feelings and experiences during the process.
They give writing assignments in each section as prompts, and include example entries in the back, but they mostly want to help readers create a space where they can talk about their eating disorder and record all their thoughts and feelings. This way, as readers get further along, they can return to those ideas later and get a sense of their progress. The 8 keys that Costin and Grabb outline offer new perspectives. Mostly, I felt the authors provided their readers with the vocabulary to articulate feelings and experiences. In this example, they show how a person with an eating disorder is struggling with two selves: In addition to providing examples like this, they also include their own stories and other real-life examples from people who have also recovered.
They are invested in providing real hope, motivation and insight for readers. Costin and Grabb support their clients so they can learn to accept and understand instead of always having to fight their illness. Their keys are clear and flexible. Readers certainly will have to face some hard truths, but they are in charge of the pacing and do have someone who understands. Want to buy the book or learn more? Check out the book on Amazon.