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By Their Side: A Resource for Caretakers and Loved Ones Facing an Eating Disorder Kindle Edition

by Lara Lyn Bell (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

4.3 45 ratings

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This practical resource guide shares essential information and personal stories from eating disorder survivors, family members, caretakers, and others.

When someone you love is in the throes of an eating disorder, it can be difficult to believe recovery is possible. By Their Side offers help and hope to those fighting alongside a loved one in the struggle against this heartbreaking illness. Providing first-hand testimony, scientific expertise, resources, and actionable guidance, the book serves as a lifeline for both the individual coping with the disease and those struggling to give them the right support.

Written collectively under the name Lara Lyn Bell, By Their Side draws together the diverse stories of families, friends, doctors, therapists, caregivers, and recovered eating disorder advocates. The Lara Lyn Bell collective speaks together to emphasize the insidious, cross-cultural impact of this life-or-death issue. As a result of their united anonymity, By Their Side mirrors the reader’s story as they connect with the shared challenges, successes, and perspectives on their journey to healing.

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''By Their Side is the book that caregivers of those battling eating disorders have always needed. The collective authors courageously and beautifully pull together their wisdom acquired from personal experience with eating disorders. By Their Side provides caregivers with specific skills and communication tools that truly speak to the intricacies of this illness. Readers will experience a sense of support, camaraderie, and renewed hope. This book is truly a gift and will help so many.'' --Dr. Colleen Reichmann, Licensed Clinical Psychologist

About the Author

Lara Lyn Bell represents the collective voice of this book's contributors, who have watched with fear, worry, and hope as their loved ones battled eating disorders. Bell is also comprised of trained professionals with experience in treating eating disorders. From medical doctors to therapists and psychologists, their extensive knowledge rounds out this supportive guide through the darkness of an ED to the light of whole healing. This book's contributors have combined forces because they have found that together is stronger than alone, and they want to offer that strength to anyone else who is fighting this battle.

Product details

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0851NXRHH
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Brown Books Publishing Group (November 12, 2019)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ November 12, 2019
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 3272 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 363 pages

Best Sellers Rank: #1,047,611 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #157 in Eating Disorders (Kindle Store)
- #425 in Self-Help for Eating Disorders & Body Image Issues (Kindle Store)
- #1,396 in Self-Help for Eating Disorders & Body Image Issues (Books)

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- A Mom

Proactive advice and resources offer realistic help towards healing

Reviewed in the United States on November 16, 2019

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The proactive advice and resources offer realistic help to move forward personally and together as a family. It’s very helpful and can recommend working thru the accompanying workbook as well.

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PK

Great Tool For Those Attempting To Understand Eating Disorders

Reviewed in the United States on January 7, 2020

This is a problem that touches everyone: not just those struggling with an eating disorder, not just with their families, but with friends and acquaintances, teachers, ministers, therapists, doctors, classmates and business colleagues. I do not know anyone who is unaware of eating disorders but few who know how to deal with the ramifications and stress of getting appropriate help.
This book offers professional guidance personal insight and provides hope and resources for anyone who is experiencing the problem themselves, or knows and cares about that person and their loved ones who are at wits- end searching for answers.
Education is the first step and BY THEIR SIDE is a wonderful place to begin recovery from a puzzling and insidious health problem that requires knowledge in order to be successfully managed.

4 people found this helpful

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Mom

I highly recommend this for anyone who is struggling with an ED

Reviewed in the United States on November 14, 2019

I love that this collaborative book takes bits and pieces from lives of those who have struggled while caring for a loved one who is going through an eating disorder. Though the backgrounds and stories are all unique, the ideas and lessons that these writers have shared all point back to the same things....how they love, guide, listen, learn and repair broken pieces. It's a book that is filled with information from skilled doctors in the field, family members and care takers. After reading the book, there is no need to feel alone in the process of healing. These people have been there. Please read! You wil glean helpful information.

4 people found this helpful

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Amazon Customer

A comprehensive and hope-inspiring guide to coping with eating disorders

Reviewed in the United States on November 14, 2019

This book and its accompanying workbook are invaluable for anyone affected by a loved one battling an eating disorder. It provides fresh insight and varied and comprehensive approaches to help caretakers provide support during and gain understanding of this complex disease. It is hope-inspiring and comforting, with a healthy dose of honesty and realism. The science behind successful treatment is balanced with poignant personal accounts of the emotional implications for caretakers, fostering the sense that one is not alone in this journey, and that with the right tools, recovery is very possible. I cannot recommend it enough!

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Kristie G

Very informative and easy to relate to

Reviewed in the United States on April 2, 2020

Contributing writers include parents, siblings and caregivers who have personally witnessed the destructive behaviors of an eating disorder. As a parent dealing with a child who has struggled for 16 years, this book has been the most helpful and useful tool in understanding behaviors and dealing with many of the issues associated with the eating disorder world.

4 people found this helpful

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parent

a MUST for FAMILIES dealing with EDs

Reviewed in the United States on November 19, 2019

This book is a collaboration of real life scenarios about how to care for a loved one with an eating disorder. The advice is practical and the experiences are real. This book is a MUST if you want to see what other families have done that worked and didn't work. Eating Disorders affect entire families. Be proactive and read this book.

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Amazon Customer

Wonderful Resource!!

Reviewed in the United States on November 14, 2019

This book is so well written with thoughtful and practical guidance and moving stories of personal experience!! HIGHLY RECOMMEND!!