Making Peace with Your Plate: Eating Disorder Recovery

Making Peace with Your Plate: Eating Disorder Recovery

Robyn Cruze, a mental health advocate who found recovery from an eating disorder, has teamed up with therapist and friend Espra Andrus to provide expert guidance for those seeking eating disorder recovery, their loved ones, and treatment professionals. This revised edition offers new insights and stories, updated approaches to nutrition, and answers to such pressing questions within the eating disorder community as: Does the word "recovered" have a place in the recovery process? What about notions of "good," "bad," "health," and "unhealthy" foods? How does soothing the self rather than fighting the eating disorder fit into recovery? Making Peace with Your Plate helps unshackle us from our fears, anxiety, and the need to control by providing proven strategies for recovery and taking back our power from the illness. " Making Peace with Your Plate is a refreshing and meaningful book to help you or a loved one recover from an eating disorder. What makes this book stand out is its unique format of alternating chapters. There is a ‘story chapter,’ which chronicles Robyn Cruze’s recovery, followed by a ‘therapist chapter,’ which offers practical tools from seasoned eating-disorder therapist, Espra Andrus. Together this unique approach creates a powerful synergy.” —Evelyn Tribole, MS, RD, coauthor of Intuitive Eating “ Making Peace with Your Plate  is real, honest, and full of hope. Join Robyn and Espra on a unique journey to authentic freedom. Your recovery awaits!” —Jenni Schaefer, Author of  Almost Anorexic ,  Life without Ed , and  Goodbye Ed, Hello Me "This revised edition of Making Peace with Your Plate is a beautifully written book and an exceptional resource for clinicians and our clients. Robyn and Espra take us through the journey of recovery with compassion and insight. The combined talent and expertise of these two professionals provide a wonderful view of the path one might need to take in order to recover. I have been reading books about recovery for thirty-six years, and this one is a true gem.” —Beth Mayer, LICSW, private practice, former executive director of Multi-Service Eating Disorders Association (MEDA) "I love how clearly this book explains recovery. When I was in treatment, I always asked ‘What is recovery?’ and nobody could answer that in the eating disorder world. This book will help you define recovery and give you tools for change.” —Ashley Hamilton " Making Peace with Your Plate provides a unique and meaningful vantage point. You will feel understood as you read Robyn’s account of her struggle with an eating disorder, and you will find practical tools in the chapters authored by Espra, an experienced eating disorder therapist." —Jennifer L. Taitz, PsyD, author of End Emotional Eating Robyn Cruze, MA is a sought-after keynote speaker, educating on the co-occurrence of substance-use and eating disorders. She is the co-founder of a family mental health awareness initiative, Wide Wonder, which aims to make mental health and addiction recovery an everyday conversation. She also serves as the director of advocacy consultant at Eating Recovery Center. Espra Andrus, LCSW is a clinical therapist who has specialized in working with individuals suffering with the full spectrum of eating disorders, mood disorders, and trauma for almost two decades.She is a co-founder of Life Launch Centers where she created the Resilience Model@, an 8-stage brain-based model with evidence-based tools for emotional and life resilience.