Recovering from Eating Disorders

A creative, trauma-informed guide to healing your relationship with food, emotions, and yourself. Eating disorder recovery is not just about food. It's about healing the inner world where emotions, beliefs, relationships, and self-worth have become painfully tangled. In Recovering from Eating Disorders, psychologist Kim A. Guarascio, PhD, brings more than twenty years of clinical experience to a practical, empowering workbook designed to help readers understand their struggles, reconnect with their bodies, and cultivate lasting change. Using Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) skills, mindfulness practices, and creative art therapy exercises, Dr. Guarascio offers a holistic and trauma-informed path forward that acknowledges how eating disorders develop, why they persist, and how real recovery unfolds. Readers will learn how to identify emotional triggers, challenge distorted thinking, regulate intense emotions, improve body image, and build healthier relational patterns—skills that support recovery emotionally, behaviorally, and relationally. Each chapter includes reflective prompts and interactive exercises that gently translate insight into action. Unlike traditional resources that focus solely on nutrition or symptom management, this workbook also attends to the psychological and relational roots of disordered eating. Through guided practices, real-life scenarios, and supportive tools, readers move toward self-compassion, resilience, and a renewed sense of self. Recovering from Eating Disorders empowers individuals to break free from cycles of shame and control and reclaim a life driven not by fear, but by purpose, connection, and hope.