Hunger, Hope, and Healing A Yoga Approach to Reclaiming Your Relationship to Your Body and Food

A yoga-centric approach to dealing with disordered eating—like overeating, food addiction, and stress eating—and the resulting emotional distress such behaviors can cause
 
Yoga philosophy and practice are increasingly being used therapeutically to help people overcome disordered eating patterns—like overeating, food addiction, and stress eating—and the resulting emotional distress they can cause. Sarahjoy Marsh offers a program using yoga to address food-centered behaviors and body image issues. She illuminates the nature of addiction and offers a methodical approach to recovery that is neither dogmatic nor rigid; rather, it is compassionate, hopeful, and deliberate.
 
Full of clear, empathic advice and photographs of the step-by-step practices, this book will help alleviate the isolation that people with food-oriented issues and body image problems feel; offer strategies for changing the behaviors; and give clear guidelines about the processes of recovery and the development of new life skills.

SARAHJOY MARSH is a yoga teacher and yoga therapist, and she has an MA in transpersonal counseling and art therapy. Her twenty-six years of experience in Eastern and Western studies includes the psychology of yoga, meditation, Ayurveda, and neuroscience. Committed to bridging yoga, psychotherapy, and social justice, Marsh founded the DAYA Foundation, a nonprofit yoga therapy center known for its integrated approach to yoga, mindfulness, and recovery. Her website is www.sarahjoyyoga.com.

Introduction
PART ONE: HUNGER, HOPE, AND CAPACITY
1. Hunger: What Are You Hungry For?
2. Hope: A New Lens through Which to Look
3. Capacity: Four Essential Life Skills
Skill 1: Getting in the GAP: Grounding, Attention, and Presence
Skill 2: Getting Comfortable Feeling Uncomfortable
Skill 3: Moving from Love Not Shame
Skill 4: Personal Buoyancy
PART TWO: FERVENCY, FAITH, AND COURAGE
4. Fervency: Discipline and Desire
PART THREE: RESILIENCE, JOY, AND FORGIVENESS
6. Resilience
7. Causes of Suffering, Sources of Joy
8. Forgiveness and Freedom
Resources for treatment centers, treatment tools, references to yoga terminology and tools, references for mindfulness tools