The Recovery Mama Guide to Your Eating Disorder Recovery in Pregnancy and Postpartum
Published on 21. February 2019
208 pages
978-1-78592-590-0 (ISBN)
Description
The upheaval of pregnancy and new motherhood can often trigger the development of, or a relapse into, an eating disorder. This book supports pregnant women and new mothers struggling with changes in food, body image, sleep, spirituality, work, breastfeeding (or not), new motherhood identity, and postpartum depression or anxiety.
Combining professional expertise, personal experience, and pragmatic suggestions, it is the ideal guide for women who are trying to balance recovery with new motherhood. The author offers recovery tools, support strategies and wisdom on how to make time for self-care while navigating the chaos of early parenthood. Most importantly, this book will help women let go of perfectionistic ideals and embrace being good enough during the massive learning curve of new motherhood.
Combining professional expertise, personal experience, and pragmatic suggestions, it is the ideal guide for women who are trying to balance recovery with new motherhood. The author offers recovery tools, support strategies and wisdom on how to make time for self-care while navigating the chaos of early parenthood. Most importantly, this book will help women let go of perfectionistic ideals and embrace being good enough during the massive learning curve of new motherhood.
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Digital original
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Edition type
Digital original
ISBN-13
978-1-78592-590-0 (9781785925900)
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Linda Shanti McCabe
The Recovery Mama Guide to Your Eating Disorder Recovery in Pregnancy and Postpartum
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02/2019
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
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Persons
Linda Shanti McCabe aka "Recovery Mama," is a Clinical Psychologist with 19 years' experience helping women recover from eating disorders. She has presented about Eating Disorders and Motherhood at the International Association of Eating Disorder Professionals (IAEDP), and Postpartum Support International (PSI). She writes about recovery and motherhood on her blog at DrLindaShanti.com.
Content
- Intro
- The Recovery Mama Guide toYour Eating Disorder Recovery in Pregnancy and Postpartum
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction and Overview
- Chapter 1 - Body Image: Navigating Changes in Your Body and Your Identity
- Chapter 2 - Postpartum Depression and Perinatal Mood Disorders: How to Know When to Get Support, Even if You Don't Feel Like It
- Chapter 3 - Sleep: Life Will Never Be the Same, but You Can Get Support and Create New Structures
- Chapter 3 - Food: How to Survive Nausea, Food Cravings, and Other Pregnancy and New-Mommy Food Challenges
- Chapter 5 - Labor, Delivery, and Postpartum: Having a Plan, Updating Your Plan, Throwing the Plan out the Window
- Chapter 6 - Good Breast, Bad Breast, Good Enough Breast: It's Not "Breast Is Best"
- It's Fed Is Best - Stop "Shoulding" on Yourself and Find the Right Answer for You
- Chapter 7 - Distress Tolerance: How to Successfully Not Be Supermom (and Be OK with It)
- Chapter 8 - Spirituality, Recovery, and Motherhood: Finding Time to Meditate, Dance, Collage, Journal, Be Present, or Go to the Bathroom Alone, Even if It Is Five Minutes a Day
- Chapter 9 - Stay at Home Versus Working Outside the Home: Discover the Right Balance for You, Right Now
- Chapter 10 - Advanced Maternal Age: Navigating Life as an "Older Mom"
- Resources
- Endnotes
- Blank Page
