Hungry for Connection: Heal Your Relationships with Food and People in an Insecurely Attached World - Paperback
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What are you really hungry for? Grounded in attachment theory, this compassionate guide will help you heal your relationship with food, yourself, and others.
Do you turn to food for comfort when you're feeling lonely, anxious, or depressed? Perhaps you have a history of yo-yo dieting, or use food to deal with stress? If you struggle with emotional eating, undereating, or obsessions about nutrition, you may have an insecure attachment style that is driving your behavior. You aren't alone. In our increasingly isolated world of technology and social media, people are turning to food or diet culture in an effort to "fill the void," only to be left unsatisfied and unfulfilled. So, how can you nourish true connection instead?
This essential and timely guide reframes emotional and restrictive eating as a deeper struggle for safety and security. You'll identify and examine your own attachment style, learn how attachment wounds can impact your relationship with food, and decrease your dependence on food behaviors as a tool to self-regulate, relieve pain, and find comfort.
In this book, you'll discover tools to:
- Identify why you turn to food to numb painful feelings
- Explore the role of social media in feelings of isolation
- Cultivate healthy coping behaviors
- Feel safer and more secure in your relationships
With this book, you'll find powerful skills to heal from the loneliness, anxiety, and attachment wounds that cause disordered eating, and live with more connectedness, meaning, and true fulfillment.
Vanessa Scaringi, PhD, CEDS-C, is a licensed psychologist and certified eating disorder specialist. She co-owns a group therapy practice, CALM Counseling, that specializes in women's health issues. Vanessa lives in Austin, TX, with her husband, sons, and dogs.
Kathryn Garland, LCSW, CEDS-C, is a clinical social worker and certified eating disorder specialist. She completed post-graduate training in psychoanalytic psychotherapy in New York, NY, and has spent the last two decades practicing through an attachment-based lens as well as training other therapists in these methods. Kathryn lives with her family in Central Texas.
Foreword writer Elyse Resch, MS, RDN, is a nutrition therapist specializing in eating disorders, intuitive eating, and health at every size. She is coauthor of Intuitive Eating, and author of The Intuitive Eating Workbook for Teens and The Intuitive Eating Journal.
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