Books & Blogs for “Normal” Eating

After recovering from chronic dieting, binge/emotional eating, and bulimia half a lifetime ago, I’ve been teaching chronic dieters, weight-cyclers, and dysregulated eaters to become “normal” eaters and eat according to their mind/body needs.

“Her writing is like therapy on the page.”

Karen R. Koenig, LCSW, M.Ed.

Learn from an eating psychology expert who has . . .

30 years of experience as a clinician treating eating disorders.
Eight books published, two book awards, and 10 foreign language editions.
Over 1800 blogs posted and categorized for easy access.
Half a lifetime fully recovered from chronic dieting, binge eating, and bulimia.

“I’ll continue reading Karen’s books and blogs even after I heal my eating problems. They have so much wisdom in them and I don’t feel it’s a chore to read them. In fact, I really enjoy them!”

“Karen’s blogs always come up with things I’d never really thought about as related to eating, so I end up thinking, “Wow. That’s really good to know. Why didn’t I think of that.”

My books and blogs will help you STOP:

Bingeing, overeating, snacking mindlessly, living to eat, and struggling with food and shame hangovers.
Dieting to lose weight, restricting “forbidden” foods, thinking in terms of “good/bad” food, and depriving yourself of nourishment and pleasure.
Obsessing about weight or yo-yo-ing wildly up and down the scale.
Using food to manage your emotions and take care of yourself.

My books and blogs will help you START TO:

Understand and accept how diets have failed you.
Develop beliefs and skills for success in eating and in life.
Embrace self-compassion and ditch shame as a change motivator.
Retrain your brain to say “yes” and “no” to food in the right balance.
Experience and regulate your emotions and effectively manage life without using food for comfort, reward, coping, or excitement.

“Because Karen’s been where I’ve been with food, I trust what she has to say. A lot of people write about how to change your eating, but they don’t have the personal and professional knowledge. I really don’t think there’s anyone else out there writing with all her experience.”

Latest Blogs

Relate, Not React

When you listen to someone or watch a show or movie that upsets you, do you relate or react? I hadn’t thought much about the striking difference between the two until a client shared that she—a recovering trauma victim— had watched a movie about a wo...

The Neuroscience Behind Managing Anxiety

So many of my clients (not to mention friends and family) suffer from anxiety. But even when they recognize that it’s rooted in hurtful past situations, they can’t figure out how to hold onto the memories without the powerful, negative emotions that ...

What Constitutes Mental Fitness?

Most of us understand the concept of retraining our bodies: you’re out of shape and therefore do exercises to get fitter. According to Mental Fitness: Train Your Mind Like You Train Your Body, we can use the same concept for our minds. The arti...