Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

vii

Introduction

ix

Food and Feelings Pre-Assessment

xv

1. The Function of Feelings
    (You Mean There’s a Point to All This Misery?)

19

2. Fear of Feelings
    (Can’t I Learn to Outrun Them?)

33

3. Feelings, Not Food
    (I’d Rather Suck on a Lemon!)

47

4. The Seven Most Difficult Feelings for Disordered Eaters
    (More Like Seven Hundred!)

59

5. Guilt
    (It’s a Feeling, Not a Permanent Medical Condition!)

69

6. Shame
    (I’m Reading This Chapter Under the Covers!)

83

7. Helplessness
    (Who Put My Brain in a Straightjacket?)

97

8. Anxiety
    (It Can’t Find Me if I’m Hiding Behind the Refrigerator!)

109

9. Disappointment
    (If I Use My Scale as a Shield, I Won’t Feel a Thing!)

121

10. Confusion
    (To Eat or Not to Eat, That Is the Question!)

133

11. Loneliness
    (Table for One, Please!)

147

12. Freeing Your Feelings
    (Can’t I Put ’Em Out with the Trash?)

161

13. Triggers to Intense Feelings and Disordered Eating
    (Don’t They Come with Safety Locks?)

177

14. Feeling Your Way to Happiness, Health, and a Natural Body Weight
    (Sold—I’ll Take All Three!)

197

Food and Feelings Post-Assessment

209

Food and Feelings Action Plan

213

Reprinted from The Food and Feelings Workbook
by Karin R. Koenig, LCSW, M.Ed
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