Beating Ana: How to Outsmart Your Eating Disorder & Take Your Life Back

by Shannon Cutts

Imagine a World in which it is easy to find someone to turn to who understands your struggles, identifies with your wounds, and knows how lonely and scary it feels to live inside your skin. In this fantastic brave new world, you would face your eating disorder head on, standing tall and firm with supportive friends by your side as you get better—and stay that way! In Beating Ana, Shannon Cutts opens the door to this world as she introduces you to a whole new way of thinking about and recovering from your eating disorder. Shannon understands firsthand the total isolation, dead-end thinking, and exhausting mind tricks that eating disorders confine you to and has found a way to break free from her own 15-year battle with eating-disordered thinking and living—for good—through the powerful process of mentoring and connecting together. From the very first page of Beating Ana, you will experience the empowering joy of sharing your recovery process with others as Shannon guides you with the same techniques she developed to achieve her own lasting recovery and has since passed along to her own mentees. You will walk with Shannon through the recovery process as you read private correspondence from five of her longtime mentees and participate right along with them in self-quizzes, short exercises, motivational affirmations, and journaling that is specifically designed to give you the courage, support, and tangible skills to say 'no' to your eating disorder and 'yes' to your life!

Genres: Nonfiction, Self Help, Mental Health

228 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2009

About the author

Animal sensitive & intuitive, Reiki Master for pets & their people, animal communication teacher. Oh, and author of 3 books. 🥰

Visit us at www.animallovelanguages.com

Reviews

[Alli · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good if you are into journaling your thoughts...the author has some thought-provoking exercises and questions designed to make you question your lifestyle and mindset. But it's not useful if you're not committed. Not triggering at all; very uplifting.

[Jess · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very insightful! I took bits and pieces from this book, and it really opened up my perspective to things.

[Holly · Rating 4 out of 5]

in preparation for hopeful mentorship in the online community the author founded :D

[Margaux Laskey · Rating 3 out of 5]

reading for a potential review on my blog sizeate.blogspot.com.

[Katrin · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great book for beginning recovery participants and even for some in the midst of their recovery!