|
Karen R. Koenig, LCSW, M.Ed., is a psychotherapist, educator,
writer, and motivational speaker who has specialized in the field
of compulsive, emotional, and restrictive eating for over 25 years.
She is a co-founder of the Greater Boston Collaborative for Body Image and Eating Disorders
and a former member of the Professional Advisory Committee of the
Massachusetts Eating Disorder Association.
 |
 |
| “ |
The Rules
of ‘Normal’ Eating is a touching,
hopeful, helpful, loving and validating
book written in everyday language with
great humor and wide appeal. Karen Koenig
hits on so many dysfunctional eating
beliefs, behaviors and feelings that
disordered eaters cannot help but see
themselves. This book should not just
be read by individuals on their journey
of recovery, but by the therapists who
wish to guide and support them as well.
The American culture has become pleasure-seeking
and pain-avoidant to the extent that
we will often do anything to avoid experiencing
emotional discomfort. The Rules of ‘Normal’ Eating
is a reminder that only good can come
out of an exploration of what drives
us so that we can learn to endure, understand
and resolve our emotional pain. This
book is the light at the end of the tunnel
that replaces the light at the back of
the fridge.” |
|
|
| |
Nina Martin, BSN, MSW,
CSW, director of a community mental health
clinic in Suffern, NY and former director
of a community hospital inpatient eating
disorders unit |
| “ |
This
book is for anyone who wants to get
off the dieting/emotional eating merry-go-round
and experience food as the “normal” blessing
it is meant to be.” |
|
|
| |
Donald
Altman, M.A., psychotherapist, former monk, and author |
|
|
|
|
|
Using a proven, cognitive-behavioral treatment approach to
changing beliefs, feelings, and behavior, Karen is on a mission
to teach people who are food challenged how to stop struggling
with food and weight issues and get on with life.
During the past three decades, she has counseled and provided
Quit Fighting with Food workshops to hundreds of over- and undereaters. She has conducted professional
trainings for institutions and organizations
such as the Sarasota Adult and Community Education Program, the Massachusetts
Eating Disorder Association, the National Association of Social
Workers, the Massachusetts Dietetic Association, the Massachusetts
School of Professional Psychology, Sarasota Memorial Hospital,
and Simmons College School of Social Work to teach therapists
and nutritionists how to help their clients overcome their eating
problems.
Her essays and articles have appeared in Positive Change, Attitudes, Social Work Focus,
The Boston Globe, The Boston Herald, The
West Roxbury Transcript, Equal Times,
Single Living, and The Newsletter for the Society
for Family Therapy and Research.
She received a B.A. from Boston University, an M.Ed. from Antioch
College, and an M.S.W. from Simmons College School of Social
Work. She currently lives, teaches, and practices in Sarasota,
Florida.
|
|
