A new way of thinking and approaching eating disorders treatment: Provide mentors for people with eating disorders in much the same way as alcoholics provide sponsors for those seeking recovery through Alcoholics Anonymous. Beating Ana introduces this familiar concept as a new and valid one for enhancing the treatment of eating disorders‚ by highlighting how the same approach cured the author of her fifteen-year battle with anorexia and bulimia.
Beating Ana‚ very much in the tradition of the bestselling book on eating disorders Life without Ed‚ itself acts as a mentor‚ offering a series of recovery workshops‚ affirmations‚ advice from the trenches‚ and letters from courageous eating disorder survivors‚ all of which empower readers to set and achieve recovery goals - one day at a time.
Launching simultaneously with the author's mentoring website‚ www.mentorconnect-ed.org - the first free global mentoring network to connect those in strong recovery with those who are striving to recover -- Beating Ana will be the portal through which people suffering from various eating disorders are unprecedentedly brought together to support each other and heal together - all through the click of the mouse!
'In Beating Ana Shannon Cutts offers a wealth of guidance that will do nothing less than save lives. This is a book that needs to be in the hands of every person in the eating disorder world: Those who suffer‚ those who love them‚ and every professional who treats them. This book can teach us all.'-- Doris Smeltzer‚ MA‚ author of Andrea's Voice: Silenced by Bulimia and the Gurze Book's "Advice for Parents" Blog.
