Have you tried dozens of diets and still find yourself craving junk food, fatty treats and low-value foods? Do you plan each night to do better with your food tomorrow and feel you failed again? Do you fill your shelves and your body with foods that have little or no nutritional value? Do you expend all this effort and still starve for something more? If these questions resonate with you or someone your love; this book will help. It is not a diet book. It is a book of skill building. Susan Lebel Young offers a series of stories about her life, lessons she has learned. Then she shares with you what she calls Antidotes to Food Frenzy. Susan walks you through exercises—starting small with a minimal investment of time, increasing your work as you raise your level of success. Author's website : http://www. heartnourishment.com
About the Author
Susan Lebel Young MSED, MSC, author of Lessons From A Golfer: A Daughter’s Story of Opening the Heart, is a perfect guide on your journey toward heartfulness in your food and life. Young is a self-professed junk food junkie who has maintained a fifty pound weight loss and a change of food-frenzy mentality for thirty years using these food fix antidotes. She has Masters degrees in both Education and Counseling. She has studied and taught mindfulness in Maine, South Carolina and at the Center for Mindfulness at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. Young has helped clients in her private psychotherapy practice since 1995 and taught yoga since 2000. She has led mindfulness workshops, taught mindful eating, and taught courses that she developed in mind-body approaches to counseling and spirituality in the counseling process to Master’s level counseling students. Young studied plant-based nutrition with The China Study author T. Colin Campbell’s e-Cornell courses. She writes monthly for the “Reflections” column in the Portland Press Herald. Young is a very proud grandmother, mother of two adult children, and lives with her husband Jon in Falmouth, Maine.
Reviews
“Food Fix is a beautiful, compassionate, heartfelt book full of precisely the medicine our culture so deeply needs right now.”
—Chris Northrup, MD, internationally known author and speaker.
“In an enjoyable, easy-to-read format, Susan Lebel Young offers a lifesaving book for people who suffer from ‘food frenzy.’ Through the lens of counselor, mindfulness coach, and fellow traveler, she connects with the confusion and fear of those imprisoned by food. Food frenzy is a difficult, multi-dimensional issue, and Susan Young tackles it with several approaches, including nutrition that heals, suggested practices for developing ‘heartfulness,’ and a journal-like approach that depicts the author’s struggle at various life stages. Quotes scattered throughout the text and the bibliography are delightful bonuses.”
—Joanne Turnbull, PhD, Founding Partner, Your Write Mind and Executive Director, Emerita National Patient Safety Foundation
“Food Fix will help you get underneath food cravings, habits, and old behaviors that are holding you back and keeping you from being as vibrant and radiant as you would like. Susan speaks with deep experience, passion, and great care about what total health means: body, mind and heart. Page by page, chapter by chapter, she teaches the miracles of self-nourishment. This is extraordinarily helpful in this food-crazed culture. And for an added side-effect...this way of living and eating can also improve our global health crisis.”
—Julieanna Hever, MS, RD, CPT, www.PlantBasedDietitian.com
“Savor this book. Take your time with it. It’s the real thing, filled with the kind of wisdom that only comes from the trenches. Sue Young brings a depth of understanding to the complex food issues that entrap and entangle so many of us today. After her wholehearted efforts, over the course of decades, she has emerged from the maze and the fog to offer guidance for others who are struggling with the food koan. Sue’s voice is clear, strong and beautiful and her message is grounded in wisdom. I love this book.”
—Linda Anderson Krech, LICSW, ToDo Institute
“Food Fix offers an amazingly corrective, functional and heartfelt approach to food, eating and self-care.” —Joseph McLeod, BA, CPT, FMS
“This is a courageous book. By sharing her personal journey, Susan inspires hope for a gentle, self-compassionate way out of what she calls ‘Food Frenzy’. With each chapter’s Antidotes to Food Frenzy, she is right there with her reader, teaching and encouraging from beginning to end of this valuable book. (I’ve already established a new morning ritual, based on what I learned in Chapter Twelve.) Food Fix shows us the importance and healing power of mindfulness.”
—Maggie Butler, MSW Writer and Co-Founder, Your Write Mind, P.A.
www.yourwritemind.net
“If you are ready to break free from the seduction of unhealthful foods, this is the book for you. Susan Young shares valuable lessons from her journey to overcome dependence on high-fat, sugary foods and gives you the tools you need to take control of your health. Refocusing your menu on healthful fruits, vegetables, whole grains, and legumes will change your life. Susan will inspire you to nourish yourself.”
—Neal Barnard, President, Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine
“This is a wonderful book. Food Fix is not another diet book. Rather it is a “life” book. It points to the only place you can really find nourishment and contentment which is in your heart. It’s fair to say - food is important, the body needs it to live, but it can never fulfill the longing to be whole and healed. That comes from within you. This is a work of a lifetime, may you fare well in the journey.”
—Bob Stahl, Ph.D. co-author of A Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Workbook, Living With Your Heart Wide Open, and Calming the Rush of Panic
“Food Fix fills a gap in the resources available to individuals interested in healing their relationship to food. The emphasis on Heartfulness provides a grounding center of kindness and compassion in the process of “getting real with food.” Sue befriends the reader by sharing her personal experiences, peppered with cultural references to create a bridge of trust through shared humanity. She takes the reader by the hand and—one chapter at a time—builds a pathway toward self-awareness and access to inner knowing. The blend of ancient teachings and action steps empower the readers to discern real nourishment and find their way home to themselves.”
—Julie Gray, R.N.
About the Author
Susan Lebel Young MSED, MSC, author of Lessons From A Golfer: A Daughter’s Story of Opening the Heart, is a perfect guide on your journey toward heartfulness in your food and life. Young is a self-professed junk food junkie who has maintained a fifty pound weight loss and a change of food-frenzy mentality for thirty years using these food fix antidotes. She has Masters degrees in both Education and Counseling. She has studied and taught mindfulness in Maine, South Carolina and at the Center for Mindfulness at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. Young has helped clients in her private psychotherapy practice since 1995 and taught yoga since 2000. She has led mindfulness workshops, taught mindful eating, and taught courses that she developed in mind-body approaches to counseling and spirituality in the counseling process to Master’s level counseling students. Young studied plant-based nutrition with The China Study author T. Colin Campbell’s e-Cornell courses. She writes monthly for the “Reflections” column in the Portland Press Herald. Young is a very proud grandmother, mother of two adult children, and lives with her husband Jon in Falmouth, Maine.
Reviews
“Food Fix is a beautiful, compassionate, heartfelt book full of precisely the medicine our culture so deeply needs right now.”
—Chris Northrup, MD, internationally known author and speaker.
“In an enjoyable, easy-to-read format, Susan Lebel Young offers a lifesaving book for people who suffer from ‘food frenzy.’ Through the lens of counselor, mindfulness coach, and fellow traveler, she connects with the confusion and fear of those imprisoned by food. Food frenzy is a difficult, multi-dimensional issue, and Susan Young tackles it with several approaches, including nutrition that heals, suggested practices for developing ‘heartfulness,’ and a journal-like approach that depicts the author’s struggle at various life stages. Quotes scattered throughout the text and the bibliography are delightful bonuses.”
—Joanne Turnbull, PhD, Founding Partner, Your Write Mind and Executive Director, Emerita National Patient Safety Foundation
“Food Fix will help you get underneath food cravings, habits, and old behaviors that are holding you back and keeping you from being as vibrant and radiant as you would like. Susan speaks with deep experience, passion, and great care about what total health means: body, mind and heart. Page by page, chapter by chapter, she teaches the miracles of self-nourishment. This is extraordinarily helpful in this food-crazed culture. And for an added side-effect...this way of living and eating can also improve our global health crisis.”
—Julieanna Hever, MS, RD, CPT, www.PlantBasedDietitian.com
“Savor this book. Take your time with it. It’s the real thing, filled with the kind of wisdom that only comes from the trenches. Sue Young brings a depth of understanding to the complex food issues that entrap and entangle so many of us today. After her wholehearted efforts, over the course of decades, she has emerged from the maze and the fog to offer guidance for others who are struggling with the food koan. Sue’s voice is clear, strong and beautiful and her message is grounded in wisdom. I love this book.”
—Linda Anderson Krech, LICSW, ToDo Institute
“Food Fix offers an amazingly corrective, functional and heartfelt approach to food, eating and self-care.” —Joseph McLeod, BA, CPT, FMS
“This is a courageous book. By sharing her personal journey, Susan inspires hope for a gentle, self-compassionate way out of what she calls ‘Food Frenzy’. With each chapter’s Antidotes to Food Frenzy, she is right there with her reader, teaching and encouraging from beginning to end of this valuable book. (I’ve already established a new morning ritual, based on what I learned in Chapter Twelve.) Food Fix shows us the importance and healing power of mindfulness.”
—Maggie Butler, MSW Writer and Co-Founder, Your Write Mind, P.A.
www.yourwritemind.net
“If you are ready to break free from the seduction of unhealthful foods, this is the book for you. Susan Young shares valuable lessons from her journey to overcome dependence on high-fat, sugary foods and gives you the tools you need to take control of your health. Refocusing your menu on healthful fruits, vegetables, whole grains, and legumes will change your life. Susan will inspire you to nourish yourself.”
—Neal Barnard, President, Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine
“This is a wonderful book. Food Fix is not another diet book. Rather it is a “life” book. It points to the only place you can really find nourishment and contentment which is in your heart. It’s fair to say - food is important, the body needs it to live, but it can never fulfill the longing to be whole and healed. That comes from within you. This is a work of a lifetime, may you fare well in the journey.”
—Bob Stahl, Ph.D. co-author of A Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Workbook, Living With Your Heart Wide Open, and Calming the Rush of Panic
“Food Fix fills a gap in the resources available to individuals interested in healing their relationship to food. The emphasis on Heartfulness provides a grounding center of kindness and compassion in the process of “getting real with food.” Sue befriends the reader by sharing her personal experiences, peppered with cultural references to create a bridge of trust through shared humanity. She takes the reader by the hand and—one chapter at a time—builds a pathway toward self-awareness and access to inner knowing. The blend of ancient teachings and action steps empower the readers to discern real nourishment and find their way home to themselves.”
—Julie Gray, R.N.
