Eat Without Fear was a helpful listen. I appreciated the exploration of exposure therapy in relation to eating and food issues. The narrator was a little monotone.

I didn't get a chance to read this before it was archived. Rating for the cover and description. Look forward to reading it when it is out.

Note! I read this as a psychology student out of interest, i do not have an eating disorder myself.

Very interesting and supporting book for people struggling with eating disorders. It is sort of a workbook to help yourself learn how to do exposure therapy for eating disorders. I think this can be very helpful to do next to your treatment with a therapist. It is interesting, yet easy to understand, and it guides you through every step.

The audiobook, though nicely narrated, might be less helpful than the physical or ebook, considering the workbook type of setup. They still talk through all the steps, but i think visualizing the tables and exercises without actually seeing them can be very hard. It is also easier to miss certain pieces of information, and you would also have to pause the audio any time you have to fill in some exercises.

I do recommend this book (mostly the physical or ebook), and the audio is nice as well (though i would suggest still having the physical or ebook next to the audio for the exercises).

Thank you to netgalley and the author for sending me the book in exchange for an honest review

BOOK REVIEW - EAT WITHOUT FEAR: Harnessing Science to Confront and Overcome Your Eating Disorder
by Nicholas R. Farrell; Glenn Waller; Carolyn Black Becker

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Thank you, Netgalley, HighBridge Audio, and the authors - Nicholas R. Farrell, Glenn Waller, and Carolyn Black Becker - for providing me with a copy of Eat Without Fear for review.

Eat Without Fear is an informative book that explores the link between eating disorders and anxiety. It also examines how exposure therapy can help in someone's recovery by addressing anxieties around food and body image. The book offers a fascinating perspective on the eating disorder experience by applying an anxiety-focused lens.

The book's level of detail may be a concern for some readers. Unless someone is well into their recovery, the examples provided to break down the anxiety and outcome component of the disorder could serve as a guide to 'disordered eating 101'. The authors note that the book was written for people with disordered eating and their family, friends, and support networks, but support people might better first read it to determine its appropriateness.

One minor issue, for me personally, is that the book is primarily focused on anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa and doesn't give much attention to binge eating disorder.

3.5 stars, rounding up! 🌟

As an eating disorder treatment provider who has my own experience with eating disorder recovery, I was excited to read Eat Without Fear by Farrell, Waller, and Becker. Briefly, this book is about how to use DIY Exposure and Response Prevention therapy techniques to overcome fears about food and weight. It's geared at patients, though could probably be useful for many providers as well. Helping clients to understand the importance of actively challenging their eating disorder fears is difficult, and I anticipate using sections of the book to do exactly that. But..... something about it felt very fatphobic. The techniques in the book seemed to rely a lot on the reassurance that you won't "gain too much weight" from eating certain foods, and the authors' insistence on utilizing mirror exposures seemed to ignore the very real body grief that can accompany these experiences (particularly for people in larger bodies or those with multiple marginalized identities). Moreover, I felt like some sections (the one about confronting weight fears in particular) were written in a very black-and-white style. Rather than acknowledging that open weights are most consistent with ERP protocol but that they aren't right for everyone, they basically drew a line in the sand to insist that open weights were the ONLY way someone could recover. For a field that preaches living in the gray, I feel like this really missed the mark. All in All I'll certainly use sections of Eat Without Fear for psychoeducation, but I would be reluctant to give it to a client and unintentionally reinforce their own fears about weight and body -- particularly if they live in a body that does not match the stereotype of an eating disorder sufferer. Like basically every ED book I've read, this one is a mixed bag!
Thanks to the authors for the advance copy of their book!

I can see how helpful this book might be for people who are overcoming an eating disorder in which they are currently in or started in an under weight body.

However, it was not clarified in the description that this book (which reads more as a workbook really) is not for people with disordered eating who are overweight. It mentions once that this book can be for people with BED (which is the more common in larger bodies) and does mentioned a couple time at random points that “people of higher weight” this or that but it does NOT clarify that being in a bigger body is okay. Instead it is intensely focused on people in smaller bodies realizing that they won’t get fat from eating a cookie one time.

As a person in a bigger body who has suffered from disordered eating, if I had known from the book description that this was a workbook and for only people struggling who are under or at normal weight, I would have chosen to avoid as I am not the correct audience.

*I received this audiobook from #NetGalley pre-pub date for review but all words are my own.*

I personally requested to read this book because of the title. If another person was to read this they might do the same. I think this would be better read in person. Just with how the narrator references different sections of the book and other books.

Thank you netgalley for an advanced ARC of this audiobook

Reading this was full of useful information, I believe that knowing more information on things will help u to get on the right track (but it's up to thw person if they take the advice offered). I have suffered with an unhealthy relationship with food since I was a child and I have suffered from binge eating and not eating at time, I have wanted to help myself by having a healthy relationship with food to become healthier and also become better.

The advice in this book was helpful a little but since I have done allot of research into food the last few years this didn't have much information I didn't already know, but I know this book could help others with EDS (eating disorders) for them to be able to start getting more of a handle on things ... so I do suggest this book for people who are interested in understanding more about EDs the relationship with food and some steps to talk