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Understanding and Managing Emotional Eating: A Psychological Skills Workbook book cover

1st Edition

Understanding and Managing Emotional Eating A Psychological Skills Workbook

By Denise Ratcliffe Copyright 2025
104 Pages 25 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

104 Pages 25 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

104 Pages 25 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This highly accessible therapy workbook is designed to help individuals who are engaged in weight management and obesity treatments improve their relationship with food and manage their emotional eating. Emotional eating is a very common and distressing problem for many people who are trying to manage their weight. Emotional eating can contribute to weight gain and/or difficulties losing... Read more

Introduction; SECTION 1 Understand; SECTION 1A Introducing the emotional eating map; 2 Constructing a map of your emotional eating – how and why did the automatic emotional eating route develop?; 3 Constructing a map of your emotional eating: Recognising your automatic and familiar emotional eating route; 3a Constructing your emotional eating map; SECTION 2 Learning the skills to recognise, re-route and navigate emotional eating: Starting to build alternative routes and find new destinations; 4 Exit 1: Responding to triggers by building in a pause and managing your reactions; 5 Exit 2: Understanding and managing emotions; 6 Exit 3: Managing and updating the emotional eating thought ladder; 7 Exit 4: Developing alternative behaviours – short-term and longer-term options to look after your mind and body; SECTION 3 Template; 8 Developing your emotional eating template

Biography

Dr Denise Ratcliffe is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist who has specialised in providing psychological therapy for people with emotional eating patterns and weight difficulties since 2007. She is the author of Living With Bariatric Surgery: Managing Your Mind and Your Weight. She worked in the NHS for 20 years and now works in private practice.

 

“Dr Ratcliffe compassionately explores how and why emotionally driven eating behaviours may develop over time and, importantly, provides a step-by-step roadmap for changing behaviours in the here-and-now. Underpinned by years of experience in weight management, and brought to life by real examples, this book is an essential read for anyone wanting to break free from emotional eating.”

Dr Sarah Appleton, Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist, Healthy Weight Programme, Guys & St Thomas’ Hospital

 

 

“Dr Ratcliffe has done it again, an invaluable companion on a difficult journey, this time navigating  the complex issue of emotion eating - this will become another go-to resource for many people.”

 Ken Clare, Director of Operations Obesity UK

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