This highly accessible therapy workbook is designed to help individuals who are engaged in weight management and obesity treatments improve their relationship with food and manage their emotional eating.

Autorentext

Dr Denise Ratcliffe is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist who has specialised in providing psychological therapy for people with emotional eating patterns and weight difficulties since 2007. She is the author of Living With Bariatric Surgery: Managing Your Mind and Your Weight. She worked in the NHS for 20 years and now works in private practice.

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Introduction; SECTION 1 Understand; SECTION 1A Introducing the emotional eating map; 2 Constructing a map of your emotional eating how and why did the automatic emotional eating route develop?; 3 Constructing a map of your emotional eating: Recognising your automatic and familiar emotional eating route; 3a Constructing your emotional eating map; SECTION 2 Learning the skills to recognise, re-route and navigate emotional eating: Starting to build alternative routes and find new destinations; 4 Exit 1: Responding to triggers by building in a pause and managing your reactions; 5 Exit 2: Understanding and managing emotions; 6 Exit 3: Managing and updating the emotional eating thought ladder; 7 Exit 4: Developing alternative behaviours short-term and longer-term options to look after your mind and body; SECTION 3 Template; 8 Developing your emotional eating template