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A psychotherapist of 30 years, Nancy Ellis-Ordway explains how she helps people get off the weight loss roller coaster, make peace with food and their bodies, and improve their health to find happiness and a better quality of life. Widespread publicity about “the war on obesity” has led to pervasive anxiety, distress, and shame about…
• A study of the primordial figure of the Great Goddess and her continued worship through time as shown by the myths, shrines, and sanctuaries around the world that honor this powerful symbol of creation. • A noted historian on pre-Christian societies provides an extensive worldwide listing of sites and sanctuaries associated with goddess worship….
If you have been told that you need to lose weight to get pregnant, you’re probably feeling pretty crap right now. Your mind is going a million miles a minute: – frantically searching for another way to try and lose weight, – feeling so guilty that you could have let yourself get to this point,…
Ellyn Satter’s Secrets of Feeding a Healthy Family takes a leadership role in the grassroots movement back to the family table. More a cooking primer than a cookbook, this book encourages singles, couples, and families with children to go to the trouble of feeding themselves well. Satter uses simple, delicious recipes as a scaffolding on which…
In this eye-opening book, New York Times science writer Gina Kolata shows that our society’s obsession with dieting and weight loss is less about keeping trim and staying healthy than about money, power, trends, and impossible ideals. Rethinking Thin is at once an account of the place of diets in American society and a provocative…
Binge Eating Disorder, written by a clinician and an advocate who have personally struggled with Binge Eating Disorder (BED), illuminates the experience of BED from the patient perspective while also exploring the disorder’s etiological roots and addressing the components of treatment that are necessary for long-term recovery. Accessible for both treatment providers and patients alike,…
An exploration, both personal and deeply reported, of how we learn to eat in today’s toxic food culture. Food is supposed to sustain and nourish us. Eating well, any doctor will tell you, is the best way to take care of yourself. Feeding well, any human will tell you, is the most important job a…
Love Me, Feed Me is a relationship-building, practical guide to help fostering and adoptive families enjoy family meals and raise children who eat a variety of foods and grow to have the body that is right for them. Grounded in science, but made real with the often heart-breaking and inspiring words of parents who have…
A musical, magical, resilient volume from the first Native American Poet Laureate of the United States. In these poems, the joys and struggles of the everyday are played against the grinding politics of being human. Beginning in a hotel room in the dark of a distant city, we travel through history and follow the memory…
Pat Ballard’s homespun wisdom shines in this inspirational collection of short essays, quotations and poetry that encourages readers to love themselves, friends, and family and follow their dreams — while not taking guff from anyone. Ballard is also the author of 10 Steps to Loving Your Body (No Matter What Size You Are) and romantic…
Romantic suspense from the Queen of Rubenesque Romances. Ava Manning has allowed her heart to be broken once. Once is enough. She never intends to let anyone get close enough to hurt her again. She just wants to do her job as a lab technician at Cloneall Drugs, Inc, without any complications in her life….
‘You need this book. Your mom needs this book. Your best friend needs this book. Everyone needs a dose of Happy Fat!’ Julie Murphy ‘I am a fat person and I love my body. I feel lucky to be able to say that – it has taken a lot of work and a lot of…
A practical guide to working with the principles of polyvagal theory beyond the therapy session. Deb Dana is the foremost translator of polyvagal theory into clinical practice. Here, in her third book on this groundbreaking theory, she provides therapists with a grab bag of polyvagal-informed exercises for their clients, to use both within and between…
The definitive collection of art, poetry, and prose, celebrating fat acceptance Chubby. Curvy. Fluffy. Plus-size. Thick. Fat. The time has come for fat people to tell their own stories. The (Other) F Word combines personal essays, prose, poetry, fashion tips, and art to create a relatable and attractive guide about body image and body positivity….
The poets from Fat Poets Speak: Voices of the Fat Poets’ Society again embrace their lives as fat women in a thin-loving culture and write poems about negotiating their days among different, sometimes dangerous and hate-filled worlds. But they are more than just their voices. They are women who live and love with gusto, passion…
New novel by the Queen of Rubenesque Romances! Evelyn Carmichael arrived in Nashville, Tennessee with hopes of starting a new life for her and her four-year-old daughter far, far away from her abusive ex-husband. She was absolutely sure she could make a life for them without the help of any man on Earth. And then…
Growing up as a fat girl, Virgie Tovar believed that her body was something to be fixed. But after two decades of dieting and constant guilt, she was over it—and gave herself the freedom to trust her own body again. Ever since, she’s been helping others to do the same. Tovar is hungry for a…
A collection of poems chronicling the author’s recovery from a brain damaging car accident, with a list of journaling therapy writing prompts and other resources she found helpful in transcending trauma. “Shattering, haunting, humbling and ultimately triumphant, this poetic memoir takes us deep into a damaged brain and the courageous crawl back to a reclaimed…
Two years and a few dirty secrets stand between them. For as long as she can remember, Emma Pierce has wanted to leave her sleepy hometown behind. She finally succeeds…and two years later, finds herself back in Three Rivers and face to face with the reason she left—a cowboy she can’t resist. Noah Baylor has…
It only took eight seconds for Nate Montgomery’s bull riding career to go from brilliant to burned out. Back in Three Rivers with no money and no prospects, he needs to regroup and build an identity for himself that doesn’t involve being thrown around by 1500lbs of fury. He finds reprieve in a familiar package…
When Rachael Gray stepped off the California tour bus in Gatlinburg, Tennessee, she was overcome with the feeling that she was home. Having been born and raised in Los Angeles, California, Rachael was stunned and a little confused at her strong feeling of Déjà vu. After returning home to California, Rachael couldn’t let go of…
All Pamela Spencer wants is to help her brother, Tom, get his life back on track. After a job-related accident, he’s confined to a wheelchair, unable to do anything except endure excruciating pain. When Pam discovers an ad in the newspaper advertising for “a worthy heir” to inherit Fiona Bainbridge’s millions, she jumps at the…
Abigail Avery was falsely convicted of the murder of her father and sent to prison when she was only eighteen years old. The supposedly good citizens of Leaky Springs, Mississippi were silent as an innocent young woman was orphaned, accused, swiftly tried and locked away. Her only clue in the travesty of justice is that…
Sparks fly the night Lana Clarke meets to plan her sister’s wedding — and not just because curvaceous Lana announces she’s stopped dieting and doesn’t care if she’s fat as maid of honor. The strong-willed sister of the bride attracts the attention of the groom’s devastatingly handsome best man, Anthony Angelino. But when the sparks…
A time traveling tale from the Queen of Rubenesque Romances. A plus sized 21st century woman is transported to 1870s Texas, where she must decide whether to stay with the man she loves or return to her own time period. Candice had always thought she’d been born at the wrong time. She should have been…
