Stop Eating Your Heart Out
A Coping Mechanisms Guide for Compulsive Eating
Will be published approx. on 1. December 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
252 pages
978-1-68481-199-1 (ISBN)
Description
A Guide to Cravings, Stress Eating, and Food Addictions"Stop Eating Your Heart Out is rich with powerful tools to heal overeating. If you are ready for change and want compassionate and nurturing support on your journey, this book may just be the recipe."-Sylvia Haskvitz, author of Eat by Choice, Not by Habit Food addictions, cravings, and stress eating can be therapeutic but long-term, the effects on the body and mind are adverse. This guide encourages you to look within and get into mindful eating!
Don't let food get the best of you. Eating can feel therapeutic, giving us a sense of comfort and fulfillment (literally). But sometimes, how much we bite off is more than what our minds can chew, leading to disorders such as binge eating and food addiction. The most effective road to recovery isn't only physical, but mental. The best way to eat less is by healing your mind and soul, with food journaling, coping mechanisms, and mindful eating.
Ease your cravings in just 21 days. In Stop Eating Your Heart Out, follow author Meryl Hershey Beck's personal journey and advice on how you can stop binge eating through insightful self care practices. From identifying signs of compulsive eating to ways you can face your feelings around food, this insightful guide is full of spiritual and psychological techniques that can combat stress eating and cravings. Don't wait until tomorrow; start your happy, healthy, and balanced diet now.
Inside, you'll find:
A guide full of techniques to combat stress eating and food addictions
Pages for tracking your appetite, emotions, and recovery journey
An effective support system to put your brain over binge
If you liked Get Off Your Sugar, The End of Craving, or Why Smart People Make Bad Food Choices, you'll love Stop Eating Your Heart Out.
Don't let food get the best of you. Eating can feel therapeutic, giving us a sense of comfort and fulfillment (literally). But sometimes, how much we bite off is more than what our minds can chew, leading to disorders such as binge eating and food addiction. The most effective road to recovery isn't only physical, but mental. The best way to eat less is by healing your mind and soul, with food journaling, coping mechanisms, and mindful eating.
Ease your cravings in just 21 days. In Stop Eating Your Heart Out, follow author Meryl Hershey Beck's personal journey and advice on how you can stop binge eating through insightful self care practices. From identifying signs of compulsive eating to ways you can face your feelings around food, this insightful guide is full of spiritual and psychological techniques that can combat stress eating and cravings. Don't wait until tomorrow; start your happy, healthy, and balanced diet now.
Inside, you'll find:
A guide full of techniques to combat stress eating and food addictions
Pages for tracking your appetite, emotions, and recovery journey
An effective support system to put your brain over binge
If you liked Get Off Your Sugar, The End of Craving, or Why Smart People Make Bad Food Choices, you'll love Stop Eating Your Heart Out.
Reviews / Votes
"Meryl Beck integrates some of the most effective weight management tools available into a 21-day plan that will empower you. You will also be able to identify with the author's personal story in ways that will be highly instructive for meeting your own challenges. We highly recommend this superb program."-Donna Eden and David Feinstein, PhD, coauthors of Energy Medicine and Energy Medicine for Women
"Stop Eating Your Heart Out is rich with powerful tools to heal overeating. If you are ready for change and want compassionate and nurturing support on your journey, this book may just be the recipe."
-Sylvia Haskvitz, author of Eat by Choice, Not by Habit
"From the first moment you start reading Meryl Beck's Stop Eating Your Heart Out, I think you'll feel like you're with one of your best friends-someone who loves you, cares for you, and really accepts you just the way you are. I did. Meryl's honest presence and simple, doable approaches fill the pages and made me feel supported and that her suggestions were going to be easy to follow and really helpful. If you've got the chains of emotional eating holding you back, Meryl will help you be free."
-Tapas Fleming, founder of Tapas Acupressure Technique (R), Tatlife.com
"Stop Eating Your Heart Out is a well thought out book that will help those with emotional eating find a path to recovery. Meryl Beck's personal story illuminates the journey and her practical step-by-step guide provide touchstones that anyone can follow to find healing from emotional overeating."
-Carolyn Coker Ross, MD, MPH, author of The Binge Eating and Compulsive Overeating Workbook
"Meryl has written a wonderful book that demystifies Twelve-Step Recovery and brings the healing tools within Twelve-Step programs to us all. Her book is a valuable contribution in the field of emotional eating recovery. Readers will gain personal insight as well as practical tools for healing and living well."
-Joanna Poppink, MFT, psychotherapist, lecturer, author of Healing Your Hungry Heart
"Meryl Hershey Beck has presented 21 self-help tools in her thought-provoking, beautifully written Stop Eating Your Heart Out. She creatively and artfully takes us along on her journey as she combines tried-and-true recovery methods, such as the Twelve Steps, with new energy techniques. If you have a problem with over-indulging and using food instead of dealing with feelings,
then open this book and discover for yourself that you too can achieve freedom from emotional eating."
-Dr. James Durlacher, DC, author of Freedom from Fear Forever
"An excellent resource. Here you will learn how to understand varieties of problems that contribute to overeating and how to sort these out. Helpful exercises at the end of each section will guide you on your path to a healthier, happier life."
-Daniel J. Benor, MD, ABIHM, author of Seven Minutes to Natural Pain Release
"Meryl Beck's Stop Eating Your Heart Out is a must-have for anyone searching to make peace with food, weight, body image, and self-esteem because you will find that safe haven you are looking for right here. It is truly food for the soul. Meryl takes this complex and important issue that plagues millions and breaks it down into bite-size, palatable pieces that you can easily digest and lovingly weave into your everyday life. Plus, you will get the pleasure of absorbing all the soul-filled nutrients that are present on each page. I highly recommend this book. Your life will never be the same."
-Bronwyn Marmo, bestselling author of The Food Is a Lie: The Truth Is Within
"Meryl Beck has written a book that illuminates the true path to recovery from compulsive eating."
-Jeanne Rust, PhD, CEO and founder of Mirasol Eating Disorder Treatment Centers
"Beck, a licensed therapist with extensive experience treating eating disorders, takes a multifaceted approach to helping those with clinical eating problems overcome them."
-Olga B. Wise, Library Journal
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
San Francisco
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
Not illustrated
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-68481-199-1 (9781684811991)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Meryl Hershey Beck, MA, M.Ed., spent her early professional life as a high school and community college teacher. In 1990 she became a licensed counselor specializing in 12-Step Recovery and eating disorders and soon designed and implemented a successful outpatient Food Abuse Treatment week. After she discovered energy techniques, Meryl began writing about and teaching energy modalities to mental health practitioners nationwide beginning in 1998. An authority in this field, she has presented at workshops and conferences internationally. Her first book, STOP EATING YOUR HEART OUT, tells her story and presents many tools to skyrocket personal growth and alleviate emotional eating.
As a professional counselor, Meryl spent decades helping others integrate loss. But it wasn't until her 35-year-old son ended his life in 2011 that she fully understood deep grief. Meryl is the creator and developer of SourceTapping (R), a meridian therapy technique that is like needle-less acupuncture, which helps to ease both physical and emotional pain. She uses this tool for herself, with bereaved clients, and now includes it in all her workshops. Although Meryl endured the hell of excruciating grief, she chose to face it rather than stuff it. And, she also made a conscious decision to recover and to honor her son's memory by living as full and rich a life as possible. She has been called a way-shower, or role model, demonstrating that a joyful life after significant loss is possible. Meryl collected stories from 26 other bereaved parents who are not just surviving but thriving, to give others hope that their lives don't have to end because of the tragedy they suffered. These stories (plus resources for the bereaved) became the book LOSS, SURVIVE, THRIVE.
Her blogs and event information can be found at www.StopEatingYourHeartOut.com, www.SourceTapping.com, and www.LossSurviveThrive.com/.
As a professional counselor, Meryl spent decades helping others integrate loss. But it wasn't until her 35-year-old son ended his life in 2011 that she fully understood deep grief. Meryl is the creator and developer of SourceTapping (R), a meridian therapy technique that is like needle-less acupuncture, which helps to ease both physical and emotional pain. She uses this tool for herself, with bereaved clients, and now includes it in all her workshops. Although Meryl endured the hell of excruciating grief, she chose to face it rather than stuff it. And, she also made a conscious decision to recover and to honor her son's memory by living as full and rich a life as possible. She has been called a way-shower, or role model, demonstrating that a joyful life after significant loss is possible. Meryl collected stories from 26 other bereaved parents who are not just surviving but thriving, to give others hope that their lives don't have to end because of the tragedy they suffered. These stories (plus resources for the bereaved) became the book LOSS, SURVIVE, THRIVE.
Her blogs and event information can be found at www.StopEatingYourHeartOut.com, www.SourceTapping.com, and www.LossSurviveThrive.com/.
Content
Table of Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: My Story: The Making and Breaking of a Compulsive Overeater
Chapter 2: Becoming Self-Honest
Day 1: Eating History
Day 2: Food-Mood Diary
Day 3: Personal Journal
Chapter 3: Finding Support
Day 4: Creating a Support System
Day 5: Self-Care
Day 6: Therapy
Chapter 4: Spirituality and Spiritual Growth
Day 7: Higher Power
Day 8: Prayer and Meditation
Day 9: Creative Visualization
Chapter 5: Energy Techniques
Day 10: An Introduction to TFT and EFT
Day 11: Rapidly Integrated Transformation Technique (RITT)
Day 12: Personal Energy Work
Chapter 6: Going Within
Day 13: The Inner Child
Day 14: Right-Hand/Left-Hand Dialogue
Day 15: Parts Work-Embracing the Inner Critic
Chapter 7: Personal Housecleaning
Day 16: Mini Inventory
Day 17: Giving It Away
Day 18: Making Amends
Chapter 8: Conscious Living
Day 19: Forgiveness
Day 20: Gratitude
Day 21: Healthy Eating
Chapter 9: Putting It All Together
Epilogue
Daily Assignments Overview
Resources
Recommended Reading
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: My Story: The Making and Breaking of a Compulsive Overeater
Chapter 2: Becoming Self-Honest
Day 1: Eating History
Day 2: Food-Mood Diary
Day 3: Personal Journal
Chapter 3: Finding Support
Day 4: Creating a Support System
Day 5: Self-Care
Day 6: Therapy
Chapter 4: Spirituality and Spiritual Growth
Day 7: Higher Power
Day 8: Prayer and Meditation
Day 9: Creative Visualization
Chapter 5: Energy Techniques
Day 10: An Introduction to TFT and EFT
Day 11: Rapidly Integrated Transformation Technique (RITT)
Day 12: Personal Energy Work
Chapter 6: Going Within
Day 13: The Inner Child
Day 14: Right-Hand/Left-Hand Dialogue
Day 15: Parts Work-Embracing the Inner Critic
Chapter 7: Personal Housecleaning
Day 16: Mini Inventory
Day 17: Giving It Away
Day 18: Making Amends
Chapter 8: Conscious Living
Day 19: Forgiveness
Day 20: Gratitude
Day 21: Healthy Eating
Chapter 9: Putting It All Together
Epilogue
Daily Assignments Overview
Resources
Recommended Reading