It can feel daunting to heal your relationship with food and your body in a culture obsessed with diets and weight. This workbook provides the structure and support you need to finally break free. Further, the new chapter on social justice helps put your struggles with food and body image into context (your body is not the problem!), empowering you to stop fighting your body and start rejecting diet culture.”
—Blair Burnette, assistant professor at Michigan State University, and author of The Intuitive Eating Treatment Manual
This comprehensive workbook is a gift for anyone looking to heal their relationship with food, whether you have prior experience with Intuitive Eating or are just learning about it here. The thoughtful updates in this new edition provide even stronger evidence against diet culture and its noxious views on weight and health—and in favor of treating our bodies with compassion. I’m grateful to Evelyn and Elyse for this resource.”
—Christy Harrison, MPH, RD, registered dietitian, journalist, and author of The Wellness Trap and Anti-Diet
Evelyn and Elyse are game-changing authors whose work impacts millions of lives. This practical and powerful workbook transforms the principles of Intuitive Eating into action. The paradigm of Intuitive Eating provides a lasting and sustainable anchor for a peaceful relationship with food, leaving behind the misery of dieting and weight cycling. I am so grateful for this liberating workbook, which expands upon the powerful foundation of Intuitive Eating. Highly recommended!”
—Wendy Oliver-Pyatt, MD, FAED, CEO and founder of Within Health and Galen Hope, and author of Questions and Answers on Binge Eating Disorders
As an internist who specializes in eating disorders, I have been recommending The Intuitive Eating Workbook for years. I’m thrilled that this beautiful second edition is now available. Incorporating vital themes from social justice to eating disorder recovery, Tribole and Resch offer compassionate, scientifically and medically sound, highly interactive, and immensely helpful resources for individuals, clinicians, families, and groups. Brilliant!”
—Jennifer L. Gaudiani, MD, CEDS-C, FAED, founder and medical director of the Gaudiani Clinic, and author of Sick Enough
The Intuitive Eating Workbook is both a core pillar of eating disorder healing and a beacon of food freedom for all who’ve been held captive in the shadowy isolation of diet culture. This update integrates essential context for these body wars, gifted to us by thought leaders like Sonya Renee Taylor and Sabrina Strings, unpacking the impact of systems on a problem that’s too long been relegated to individual culpability.”
—Rebecca Eyre, LMHC, licensed therapist; and former CEO of leading national eating disorder nonprofit, Project HEAL
The message is loud and clear that our body is amazingly capable of knowing what it needs for nourishment, movement, and overall well-being. For many, these messages have been lost in the shuffle of everyday life and culture. As a physician (and human being), my hope is that people will institute this workbook to reconnect with our body’s communication to support both physical and mental health.”
—Gregory B. Dodell, MD, Central Park Endocrinology, PC
Tribole and Resch provide an invaluable resource which helps tether the reader to the understanding that eating is a mode of self-care, providing us with space for inner work that feels doable, not daunting. This workbook will help so many people defy diet culture once and for all!”
—Sumner Brooks, MPH, RDN, coauthor of How to Raise an Intuitive Eater
Evelyn and Elyse guide readers through the Intuitive Eating process with a level of care, detail, and expertise that only those who have dedicated their entire careers to this work can. With thoughtfulness and inclusivity evident throughout, the authors provide an expansive collection of exercises and activities that can benefit anyone with a goal of nourishing a better relationship with food and body.”
—Ayana Habtemariam, MSW, RD, LDN, nutrition therapist, certified Intuitive Eating counselor, and anti-oppression consultant
Learning to implement the principles of Intuitive Eating presents challenges for many of us. The Intuitive Eating Workbook is a valuable tool for individuals seeking additional support while striving to make peace with their relationship with food and body.”
—Aaron Flores, RDN, certified body trust specialist, and host of the Men Unscripted podcast
This is not just another book about dieting, but rather a simple ten-step approach to improve the relationship between food and one’s mind, body, and soul! The book promotes the principles that will maximize psychological and physical health to improve quantity and quality of life—something that I have promoted and written about for the past thirty-five years. This work should prove to be extremely helpful to many patients, including my own, and to the general public. I highly recommend it!”
—Carl “Chip” Lavie, MD, FACC, FESPM, medical director of cardiac rehabilitation and prevention, and director of exercise laboratories at John Ochsner Heart and Vascular Institute, and professor of medicine at Ochsner Clinical School, UQ School of Medicine
“The Intuitive Eating Workbook, written by Health at Every Size advocates Evelyn Tribole and Elyse Resch, is an invaluable tool on your journey to developing a peaceful and satisfying relationship with food, mind, and body. It explains the principles of intuitive eating in a clear and inviting way, and offers a wealth of thought-provoking and effective exercises that help readers tune into their bodies’ signals, and challenge distorted thoughts about food and body. This book will be a treasured resource for the general public and for health professionals as well.”
—Linda Bacon, PhD, author of Body Respect and Health at Every Size
“The Intuitive Eating Workbook takes the wisdom of intuitive eating to a practical, informative self-help format. It is a perfect stand-alone workbook, as well as a supportive tool for work with patients. With activities that build resilience from a steady base of self-care, positive embodiment, and understanding, this book makes a deeper connection with your body and a healthier relationship with food completely accessible.”
—Catherine Cook-Cottone, PhD, associate professor, licensed psychologist, and author of Mindfulness and Yoga for Self-Regulation
“With The Intuitive Eating Workbook, Tribole and Resch have created an empowering resource, not only for those who wish to embrace and practice intuitive eating, but also for health care professionals seeking to provide support. The Intuitive Eating Workbook provides a concise review of the foundational principles with references to supporting research and thoughtful exercises designed to promote attunement, self-care, and body appreciation. Tribole and Resch infuse each page with compassion and the unique perspective of their combined professional experience, making this a welcome healing tool for laypersons and professionals alike.”
—Paige O’Mahoney, MD, CHWC, coauthor of Helping Patients Outsmart Overeating, certified Intuitive Eating counselor, and founder of Deliberate Life Wellness, LLC
“Evelyn and Elyse have done it again! I highly recommend The Intuitive Eating Workbook. Full freedom from food and body image problems is absolutely possible.”
—Jenni Schaefer, author of Goodbye Ed, Hello Me; Life Without Ed; and coauthor of Almost Anorexic
“From the dangers of dieting and weight cycling to learning body respect and total self-care, this workbook covers all the bases of intuitive eating for both novices and those who need a bit more help along the way. Although dieticians generally teach us the ‘what’ of eating, Tribole and Resch write about the ‘why’ and ‘how’ of it as well as any seasoned eating disorders therapists.”
—Karen R. Koenig, MEd, LCSW, author of The Food and Feelings Workbook and six other books on eating
“Evelyn Tribole and Elyse Resch’s The Intuitive Eating Workbook is a must-have for anyone who wants to improve their relationship with food! Its practical, easy-to-read format walks you step-by-step through the process of learning to use your internal wisdom to enjoy eating food in a peaceful, healthy way. A fantastic resource for health care professionals.”
—Susan Albers, psychologist and New York Times bestselling author of EatQ, Eating Mindfully, and 50 Ways to Soothe Yourself Without Food
“Intuitive eating is both revolutionary and utterly logical. This is an invaluable guide to anyone who has ever struggled with food. In fact, I believe anyone would benefit from utilizing this resource as it directly challenges both our individual food issues, and those endemic to our culture. This is the end of dieting, for everyone.”
—Kelsey Miller, author of Big Girl
