Eating in the Light of the Moon: How Women Can Transform Their Relationship with Food Through Myths, Metaphors, and Storytelling Author: Visit Amazon's Anita A. Johnston PhD. Page | Language: English | ISBN:
0936077360 | Format: EPUB
Eating in the Light of the Moon: How Women Can Transform Their Relationship with Food Through Myths, Metaphors, and Storytelling Description
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"Read it in the light of the moon and the inner wisdom you find will be worth the lost sleep!" --
-National Eating Disorders Organization newsletter"This beautifully-written book sheds new light on struggles with eating . . . and offers hope for all who want to be free." --
-Kim Chernin author of The Hungry Self"This book is a gift to all women who struggle for true nourishment!" --
-Christiane Northrup, M.D. author of Women's Bodies, Women's WisdomAbout the Author
Anita Johnston, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist in private practice who specializes in women's issues and eating disorders. She co-founded the Anorexia and Bulimia Center of Hawaii in 1982 and lectures widely. Dr. Johnston lives with her husband and two daughters in Kailua, Hawaii.
- Paperback: 224 pages
- Publisher: Gurze Books; 1 edition (April 13, 2000)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0936077360
- ISBN-13: 978-0936077369
- Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.6 x 0.7 inches
- Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
I feel compelled to share with potential readers of Anita Johnston's EATING IN THE LIGHT OF THE MOON how much this book has helped me on my recovery from bulimia. As a woman with an eating disorder, let me assure that the path to recovery is a long difficult journey, but when things get tough, to this day, I turn to this book.
The concept is different than anything I have read to date, and I have read a lot. I love analysis, thought and literature. Johnston, who, by the way, runs an acclaimed eating disorder clinic in Hawaii uses multicultural fairy tales and myths to illustrate to the reader important steps on the journey to recovery. The story I return to again and again is that of the Tutu bird.
Briefly put, there was a young girl who lived in a village in Africa where the people were starving. Like all the other village children, she was sent out to fetch the animals that had been captured in the village traps overnight so that the villagers might eat. When she got there, there was a Tutu bird in the trap. His song was so sweet that she set him free. She returned to the village and explained what happened. The villagers were so angry that they buried her alive in a mud hut and left her to die. She cried and cried. One day, she heard a sweet song and a ray of light came though the top of her hut. The next day she heard the song again and realized that it was the Tutu bird. The bird was pecking a hole in the mud hut to free her! The bird then dropped in fruits and nuts. This continued until the girl was well fed and the Tutu bird could free her. She returned to an astonished village with the Tutu bird nourished compared to the thin villagers and then left with the Tutu bird to go into the forest forever. The point of the story: Find your voice, listen to it and don't stray.
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