Eating Disorders Anonymous: The Story of How We Recovered from Our Eating Disorders

Author: Eating Disorders Anonymous Publisher: Gurze BooksPaperback:ISBN 10: 0936077859ISBN 13: 978-0936077857 Eating Disorders Anonymous: The Story of How We Recovered from Our Eating Disorders presents the accumulated experience, strength, and hope of many who have followed a Twelve-Step approach to recover from their eating disorders. Eating Disorders Anonymous (EDA), founded by sober members of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), have produced a work that emulates the “Big Book” in style and substance. EDA respects the pioneering work of AA while expanding its Twelve-Step message of hope to include those who are religious or seek a spiritual solution, and for those who are not and may be more comfortable substituting “higher purpose” for the traditional “Higher Power.” Further, the EDA approach embraces the development and maintenance of balance and perspective, rather than abstinence, as the goal of recovery.Initial chapters provide clear directions on how to establish a foothold in recover