Beating Ana

The first book to address mentoring/sponsoring as an effective and viable movement in the treatment of eating disorders A new way of thinking and approaching eating disorders treatment: Provide mentors for people with eating disorders in much the same way as alcoholics provide sponsors for those seeking recovery through Alcoholics Anonymous. Beating Ana introduces this familiar concept as a new and valid one for enhancing the treatment of eating disorders, by...
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The first book to address mentoring/sponsoring as an effective and viable movement in the treatment of eating disorders

A new way of thinking and approaching eating disorders treatment: Provide mentors for people with eating disorders in much the same way as alcoholics provide sponsors for those seeking recovery through Alcoholics Anonymous. Beating Ana introduces this familiar concept as a new and valid one for enhancing the treatment of eating disorders, by highlighting how the same approach cured the author of her fifteen-year battle with anorexia and bulimia.

Beating Ana, very much in the tradition of the bestselling book on eating disorders Life without Ed, itself acts as a mentor, offering a series of recovery workshops, affirmations, advice from the trenches, and letters from courageous eating disorder survivors, all of which empower readers to set and achieve recovery goals--one day at a time.  

Launching simultaneously with the author's mentoring community, MentorCONNECT--the first global mentoring network to connect those in strong recovery with those who are striving to recover--Beating Ana will be the portal through which people suffering from various eating disorders are unprecedentedly brought together to support each other and heal together--all through the click of the mouse! More information about MentorCONNECT can be found inside Beating Ana and at www.key-to-life.com and www.beatinganabook.com.

"In Beating Ana Shannon Cutts offers a wealth of guidance that will do nothing less than save lives.  This is a book that needs to be in the hands of every person in the eating disorder world:  Those who suffer, those who love them, and every professional who treats them. This book can teach us all."-- Doris Smeltzer, MA, author of Andrea's Voice: Silenced by Bulimia and the Gurze Book's "Advice for Parents" Blog.