From Bagels to Buddha: How I Found My Soul and Lost My Fat

by Judi Hollis

Overview

"Judi's life-changing story allows the reader to join her on a journey to self-acceptance."—Wynonna Judd

In this delightfully funny book, Dr. Hollis shares her path to permanent weight loss and demonstrates how little it has to do with what you are eating or what's eating you. It will teach you to start eating to nurture your true inner being to know when enough is enough. By changing how you behave, how you interact with others, how you face your own dark side, and by accepting life on life's terms, losing your fat and keeping it off is finally within your reach.

Judi Hollis, PhD is a licensed family therapist who is maintaining her own seventy-pound weight loss. She opened the nation's first eating disorders unit and has been featured on CNN, Inside Edition, and Oprah. She is the author of Fat Is a Family Affair,Fat & Furious, and Hot & Heavy.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781936290819
Publisher:	Central Recovery Press, LLC
Publication date:	06/01/2012
Pages:	300
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Judi Hollis: Dr. Judi Hollis has been counseling addicted families since 1967, when she helped open New York City's Phoenix house Programs. Since that time, she has been training counselors internationally, as well as opening addiction treatment centers around the country, most notably her own HOPE Institutes, which were the first 12-Step eating-disorder units.

She holds graduate degrees in rehabilitation counseling and psychology from the University of Southern California (USC) and is a licensed marriage and family counselor. She has taught at USC, Goddard College, Chapman College and the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA). She has also led community groups and served on hospital staffs around the world.

Her best-selling Fat is a Family Affair was a groundbreaking treatise in the treatment field. It was followed by Fat and Furious, Hot & Heavy and many workbooks, and video- and audiotapes. She currently maintains personal consulting practices on both coasts, dividing her time between New York and Palm Springs.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments 1

Preface III

Intro Obesity as a Spiritual Crisis xi

Part 1 Dear Abbey

1 Hit a Wall 1

2 Lean into It 20

3 One Day at a Time 29

4 Keeping the Competitive Edge 46

Part 2 Soul is the Answer

1 Prayer Changes the Pray-er 63

2 Channel 74

3 No Free Lunch 94

4 You Spot It, You Got It 100

5 Stay Honest 110

6 Give Up to Get 118

Part 3 How I Lost My Fat

1 The Body Doesn't Lie 127

2 Funky Body Booty 143

3 Crack an Egg 156

4 We're All One? 179

5 Own the Dark 189

6 Dusty Countries 196

7 Lean into Loving Longing 207

8 Honor Your Incarnation 220

9 Seeking "Judi-ism" 237

10 You're Here Now 250

Epilogue: Bloom Where You're Planted 257

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

"Another more personal addition to the pioneering eating disorders work Judi Hollis founded in 1975. In this heartfelt and humorous account, she offers rare insight into the process of letting go to survive."—John Bradshaw, author of the book and PBS special Bradshaw On: The Family

"Dr. Hollis has found a humorous and shockingly honest way to follow the surrender process toward freedom. With that process comes a more mindful relationship with food."—Shinzen Young, author of The Science of Enlightenment

"With the humor that can only come from one who's been there, Dr. Judi Hollis takes us with her as she goes From Bagels to Buddha, the quest for a spiritual life for those who once looked for enlightenment in the bakery aisle."—Victoria Moran, author of Fit from within and The Love-Powered Diet