The Secret Language of Eating Disorders: How You Can Understand and Work to Cure Anorexia and Bulimia

Peggy’s writing style is very accessible. She writes with compassion and humanity and explains her own personal experiences of helping her daughters get through anorexia and come out the other side.She then explains how she set up a clinic to help many others with eating disorders.She gives detailed explanations about the negative mindset of someone who has an eating disorder and then explains a process where they can be supported and helped onto a meaningful recovery path that doesn’t just address the weight issue, but goes way beyond that to gradually gradually reprogram the thinking patterns in the mind.This is groundbreaking book. I only wish the principles in this book were studied and taught to all practitioners trying to help people with eating disorders - and also many other mental illness conditions like clinical depression, severe anxiety and even psychosis, Schizophrenia, Bipolar and schizoaffective.I am now reading this book again and making notes about the key elements to help me as a carer for someone with a severe mental illness.

This book provides the reader with an excellent understanding of what goes on in the minds and hearts of those struggling with eating disorders. It opens the way to understanding the correct method for interacting with those sufferers that have most often been misunderstood for being "selfish" and "controlling" and, thereby, treated by many of those in the helping professions in such a negative manner as to almost insure no cure for this disorder. Peggy Claude-Pierre gives us an inside look into the real hell eating disorder sufferers are living through and guides the reader through understanding and lovingly being a positive force in the lives of those with anorexia and bulimia, and get them the right kind of help to reverse this awful dis-ease and truly step into their own lives as the beautiful beings that they are, free to move forward in a happy and healthy way. I highly recommend this book to anyone touched by this horrendous disorder in any way - and especially those professionals that are coming from a place of "tough love." Hint ... the "tough love" approach doesn't work and is cruel treatment with no possible cure. The way to move beyond this disorder is through true understanding, love, compassion, commitment, and a positive attitude, which Peggy Claude-Pierre has successfully proven works. She is a true healer and blessing of the Universe.

Outstanding Book. A dedicated mother and Psychology Grad Student, heals her two daughters of anorexia and bulimia. This is a must read if you know someone struggling with this life threatening disorder!

What a wonderful book! The author writes with profound compassion and deep, hard-won wisdom. Her understanding of anorexia is derived from the suffering of her two daughters, as well as from her own desperate search for answers as both became anorexic. I learnt life-changing lessons from this book, not only about how to help an anorexic relative but about the roots of other disorders as it dawned on me that the failure to mature into a solid sense of one's own selfhood leaves one wide open to personality disorders, as well as eating disorders. The sign of a really good book is that it has the capacity to change one's thinking forever. This book has done that for me. I'm tempted to say it is a great book.

Interesting different perspective on Anorexia and Bulimia. Seeing the illness as outside oneself and dealing with it, talking with it, answering it back seems to be a different but perhaps helpful way of fighting the malignant, evil voice that is in the child's head urging her on to destruction. The author certainly has credentials: she saved her children. I intend to incorporate some of her ideas into my own private practice.