Rebecca Cooper’s Reading List   

 Eating Disorders

Eating in the Light of the Moon , Anita Johnson, Ph.D.

How women can transform their relationships with food through myths, metaphors & storytelling. By weaving practical insights and exercises through a rich tapestry of multicultural myths, ancient legends, and folktales, Johnston teaches women to free themselves from disordered eating by finding the metaphors hidden in their own life stories. Written in a readable and intimate style, each of the twenty chapters explores a different theme of empowerment and self-discovery.

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The Body Betrayed, Kathryn J. Zerbe, M.D.

This widely-read, beautifully-written book covers the most important aspects of diagnosis and treatment of eating disorders. Zerbe, an internationally esteemed, feminist psychiatrist, interlaces intelligent discussion with stories about individuals who have valiantly, though often at first reluctantly, engaged in recovery. She is compassionate, knowledgable, and a considerable poet. Particularly appropriate for parents and loved ones who want a deeper, more thorough understanding of eating disorders.

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Intuitive Eating, Evelyn Tribole M.S., R.D. and Elyse Resch M.S., R.D.

NEWLY REVISED AND UPDATED! Written by registered dietitians, this book will help readers equate feeling good with exercise not weight loss, understand that fat-free is not automatically nutritious, say goodbye to counting calories and fat grams, and recognize that achieving a healthy natural weight and accepting your body are not mutually exclusive.

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Life Without ED, Jenni Schaefer with Thom Rutledge

Inspiring, compassionate, and filled with practical exercises to help you break up with your own personal E.D., Life Without E provides new hope for the disorders that plague millions of women and young girls. This supportive, lifesaving book combines a patient's insights and experiences with a therapist's prescriptions for success to help you live a healthier, happier life without Ed.

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 Meditation

Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy, Sarah BanBreathnach

This book features 366 essays penned from a woman's perspective.

Something More, Sarah Ban Breathnach

From the author of Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy comes a guided excavation for women who suspect that there's something more to life than the top layer pursuits of money, sex, and love.

Around the Year with Emmet Fox, a book of Daily Readings, Emmet Fox

Here in this collection of 365 daily meditations lives the essence of a great spiritual teacher -- one who truly understood the wellspring of life.

A New Day – 365 Meditations for Personal & Spiritual Growth

In 365 daily meditations, here is spiritual and psychological guidance through the interior struggles we face every day.

The Soul’s Companion, Tian Dayton

This small book is packed with new thoughts and ideas that make your brain hurt...and stretch out of its comfort zone.

 Soul

The Life Recovery Bible, Tyndale

The popular Life Recovery Bible is now available in the New Living Translation.

Worldwide Laws of Life, 200 Eternal Spiritual Principles, John Mark Templeton

In this book, Templeton builds on his earlier Discovering the Laws of Life to collect over 200 spiritual laws that he believes affect personal attitudes and personal development.

Discovering the Laws of Life, John Marks Templeton

Behind this book is the belief that the basic principles for leading a "sublime" life can be examined and tested just as science examines and tests the natural laws of the universe.

The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success, Deepak Chopra

All creation, Chopra says, is based on natural laws that are too often thwarted by Western preferences for effort, control, and relentless ambition.

How to Know God, Deepak Chopra

Chopra explains. "Our brains are hardwired to find God." This hardwiring is deftly explored as Chopra lists the seven ways humans know God and how they correspond to the anatomy of our human brains.

The Celestine Prophecy – An Experiential Guide, James Redfield

A companion to The Celestine Prophecy helps readers expand knowledge from the nine Insights, offers explanations and exercises for further revelations, and fosters personal growth by putting readers in touch with evidence from their own experience.

You’ll See It When You Believe It, Wayne Dyer

Live the life you've always wanted. Wayne W. Dyer shows that you can direct the course of your own destiny by tapping the truly amazing power that lies within you.

God on a Harley, Joan Brady

A woman gets much-needed self-help advice when she runs into God in a bar.

Your Sacred Self, Wayne Dyer

Every problem, Dyer asserts, has a solution in the "sacred self." But we lose touch with the sacred self through the interference of ego, which produces anxieties and leads us to feel frustration, strife and pain and to inflict these on others.

 Relationship

Love is the Answer – Creating Positive Relationships, Gerald Jampolsky

Fifteen daily lessons show how to apply the "Seven Stepping Stones" to overcoming obstacles in this practical and intimate guide to developing inner growth and healing.

Saving Your Marriage Before it Starts, Les Parrott

Two married mental health pros offer a compact guide to tuning up your marriage. It's billed as a pre-marriage diagnostic tool, but it's mainly a primer on the common problems men and women have in long-term relationships.

Only Love is Real, Brian Weiss

Weiss chronicles the story of Elizabeth and Pedro, two patients who, unbeknownst to Weiss, have lost each other across lifetimes and now have another chance to reconnect.

Getting To I Do, Patricia Allen

Women may blame men for impermanent romances, but the problem often lies with themselves, according to Allen. Case histories abound and a question-and-answer section is included.

 Self-esteem

The Invitation, Oriah Mountain Dreamer

One night, after an unsatisfying evening at a party, author Oriah Mountain Dreamer wrote the start of The Invitation. By the light of her streetlight, she began, "It doesn't interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for, and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart's longing.... I want to know if you have touched the center of your own sorrow, if you have been opened by life's betrayals or have become shriveled and closed from fear of further pain...."

A Woman’s Worth, Marianne Williamson

A spiritual look into our self-realization as women. A book for both women and men to acknowledge their feminine powers of compassion, healing, nurturing and intuition.

The Artist’s Way, Julia Cameron

With the basic principle that creative expression is the natural direction of life, Julia Cameron and Mark Bryan lead you through a comprehensive twelve-week program to recover your creativity from a variety of blocks.

The Personality Self-Portrait, John Oldham

A layman's guide, derived from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, that begins with a 107-question self- test and then discusses the 14 personality types suggested by test answers.

Please Understand Me: Character & Temperament Types, David Keirsey

We are different for a reason, and that reason is probably more good than bad. Keirsey and Bates believe that not only is it impossible to truly change others (which they call embarking on a "Pygmalion project"), it's much more important to understand and affirm differences.

The Four Agreements, Don Miguel Ruiz

Sit at the foot of a native elder and listen as great wisdom of days long past is passed down. Shamanic teacher and healer Don Miguel Ruiz exposes self-limiting beliefs and presents a simple yet effective code of personal conduct learned from his Toltec ancestors.