The Slender Trap: A Food and Body Workbook Helps Women Overcome Eating Disorders Through Drawing

Dec. 13, 2010 - PRLog -- Pittsburgh, PA – Art psychotherapist and eating-disorder specialist Lauren Lazar Stern (www.laurenlazarstern.com) announces the publication of her new book, The Slender Trap: A Food and Body Workbook.  This informative, participatory, and solution-based workbook helps readers clarify the extent of potential eating disorders and/or body-image problems and leads them on the path to wellness.

The workbook features a series of more than 35 drawing and writing exercises that mimic the therapeutic experience. “While there is no substitute for a good therapist, The Slender Trap leads the reader through experiences and programs I have developed for my own patients during my 25 years as a specialist in eating disorders, and it enables them to become well,” explains Stern.

The Slender Trap: A Food and Body Workbook aids in the therapeutic process and allows girls and women of all ages to feel that they are working alongside a therapist.  They will find their issues addressed and questions answered with encouragement that helps them to process their thoughts and feelings.  By the end, the reader gains healthy perspective in her relationship with food.

In addition to the expressive art therapy exercises, the book contains background material on the nature of eating disorders, healthy nutrition and up-to-date resource chapters.  Lavishly illustrated by Gary Zamchick, The Slender Trap is published by Pin Thin Press at a retail price of $34.95 and available through www.amazon.com and www.lulu.com. Gürze Books, a leading publishing company, which specializes in resources for eating disorders, will include The Slender Trap in their widely-distributed 2011 Eating Disorder Resource Catalogue www.bulimia.com.

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