Thinking Outside The Box: A Revolutionary Approach To Food Dysfunction

by Sonja Irina Johansen

Thinking Outside the Box offers a compassionate, science-based approach to healing your relationship with food. After decades of battling diets and shame, author Sonja Irina Johansen discovered that food struggles aren’t evidence of weakness they’re evidence of intelligence.
This book reframes “food dysfunction” as a set of sophisticated coping strategies that once helped you survive, but now hold you back from peace and freedom. Blending neuroscience, trauma-informed psychology, and real-life wisdom, Johansen guides readers through a journey from compulsion to abstinence to true peace.
Through powerful reframes, practical tools, and deep emotional insight, readers learn

Understand why they turn to food emotionally and biologically

Work with their nervous system instead of against it

Replace shame with compassion and curiosity

Build sustainable healing and self-trust
This isn’t another diet or quick fix. It’s a revolutionary invitation to see your patterns as intelligent, your body as wise, and your recovery as sacred.

Kindle Edition

Published November 14, 2025