"Beating Ana" by Shannon Cutts
In "Beating Ana", Shannon Cutts offers a wealth of guidance that will do nothing less than save lives. This book can teach us all. -Doris Smeltzer, Gurze Books Advice for Parents Blog
Unlike any other book about eating disorders, "Beating Ana" uniquely illustrates the importance of people connecting with one another for support and encouragement along the recovery road. -Jenni Schaefer, best-selling author of "Life Without Ed" and "Goodbye Ed, Hello Me"
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READ an interview with the author
Listen to Shannon introduce Beating Ana:
Everything in this inventive, unique self-help book works because it encourages those struggling with recovery to confront destructive thinking patterns with empathy, understanding, and perseverance.
-The Elisa Project
I ended up reading this book in a single sitting. It is truly an inspirational book filled with life stories, and more importantly, life lessons that I think anyone could apply to their own lives, whether you are suffering from an eating disorder or not. -Angela
Hi Shannon I would like to take the time to personally THANK YOU for your book and website. I have read the book twice so far and referred back to it all the time. I have been in two treatment centers and once again I am in recovery. Your book is a true blessing which is helping me each day. Every time I pick the book or read email or posting I learn something new and supportive. Thank you, Thank you, Thank you. -Hadley
Health Communications, Inc. is Proud to Release "Beating Ana":
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!
NOTE FROM SHANNON: Relationships really DO Replace Eating Disorders. You don't have to do this alone.
Beating Ana readers are invited to join MentorCONNECT to connect with mentors and peers for extra support.
Step 1: ORDER "Beating Ana"
Step 2: JOIN MentorCONNECT (membership is FREE!)
Step 3: Begin to take your life back today!
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Mentoring as the "Missing Link" In Eating Disorders Recovery
I'll Take You There: Mentoring as a Roadmap
Making the Most of Mentoring to Achieve Your Goals
Mentoring as an Essential Component of Recovery
Seven Steps to Building a Quality Mentoring Partnership