Bestselling author and food addiction expert Dr. Rhona Epstein provides readers with a new resource for finding and keeping food freedom. Following the breakout success of Satisfied and The Satisfied Workbook, food addiction counselor Dr. Rhona is back with Satisfied Journal. Based on her more than thirty years of experience in addiction recovery, this journal uses thoughtful questions and prompts to guide readers deeper into self-reflection as they wrestle with the way they relate to food. Satisfied Journal can be used alongside its companion devotional and workbook or as a standalone tool for continuing the journey toward recovery. Dr. Rhona pairs scriptural encouragement with personal and practical questions to push readers to write honestly about their feelings and experiences with food addiction. The questions and prompts in Satisfied Journal will: - provide a periodic check-in during the recovery process - encourage honest self-reflection - help readers facilitate an intentional relationship with food - challenge readers to be vulnerable with God The newest addition to Dr. Rhona’s Satisfied line, Satisfied Journal is a prayerful and contemplative resource that provides readers with healing as they work through food addiction towards recovery and food freedom.
Experience this dynamic 90-day journey and satisfy your true hunger. Are you satisfied with your relationship with food? And if not, are you ready to take those first steps toward food freedom? Maybe you question if you're brave enough to face the oppressive power food has over you, or the way it makes you feel about yourself. Maybe you're only beginning to recognize your relationship with food isn't a healthy one. Or maybe you've lost hope that anything can change. Dr. Rhona experienced all of this and more. Because she has lived through and overcome food addiction, she knows too well the struggles in beginning the path to freedom. That's why she has written this active devotional journey to encourage you to take those first bold steps towards liberation, with God's help. Satisfied is designed for anyone seeking to change the way they relate to food, from those simply looking for healthier food behaviors, to those deeply struggling with food addiction and abuse, the practical time-tested strategies and tools in this book can ensure that food takes its proper place in your life. Rooted in the 12 Steps of proven recovery programs, and based on Dr. Rhona's experiences in more than 30 years as an addiction recovery counselor, Satisfied pairs scriptural guidance with her counseling expertise. By trusting God one day at a time, He will heal your heart and soul from the inside out. In doing so, you can be truly, fully satisfied.
Operation First Novel 2013 contest winner, Prime of Life was released in Kindle edition only and has garnered in excess of 175 positive reviews with over 6,000 paid downloads.
The author presents her professional and personal experiences from her road to recovery from food addiction as a framework for this spiritual and practical 12-week devotional.
A practical how-to resource for readers in search of biblically based freedom from food issues, the Satisfied workbook is the latest resource from food addiction counselor, Dr. Rhona Epstein. This successor to Food Triggers and the successful Satisfied devotional is a workbook with the step-by-step help needed for overcoming struggles with food. Rooted in the familiar process of twelve-step recovery programs and based on psychologist Dr. Rhona's thirty years of experience in addiction recovery, The Satisfied Workbook: A Spiritual Guide to Recovery and Food Freedom pairs scriptural encouragement with her counseling expertise and personal experiences, as well as practical questions and applications for readers. Moments of personal recovery contemplation and prayer with space for written reflection, along with the exercises and guided meditations, make this a standout among resources for food issues and addiction recovery. The Satisfied Workbook is a perfect resource for those whose relationship with food is suffering. Each chapter includes: Spirituality and Reflection ― Inspiring Bible verses and prompts to reflect and meditate on your spiritual journey and space to record your progress. Focus on one of the traditional twelve steps of traditional recovery programs, but through a biblical and food-focused lens Real Talk with Rhona ― Personal and insightful experiences that dive into realistic food addiction struggles and the path to recovery, faith, and fulfilment, as well as examples of real-life scenarios that readers might face Modern Life Guidance ― Thoughtful prompts that give new perspectives on issues like body image, healing from addiction, eating behaviors, and life balance, to name just a few. The Satisfied Workbook is designed for anyone seeking to change the way they relate to food, from balancing uncontrollable and compulsive eating habits, to those deeply struggling with food addiction and abuse. The practical time-tested strategies and tools in this workbook can ensure that food takes its proper place in your life to truly satisfy your hunger.
Discover the missing piece to your journey toward food freedom with an empowering new companion to Dr. Rhona Epstein’s transformative work, Satisfied. Licensed psychologist, counselor, and coach Dr. Rhona Epstein has helped countless clients struggling with food addiction and disordered eating with her time-tested methods. Since 2018, her book Satisfied and its accompanying workbook and journal have led many people toward food freedom through the power of the recovery programs and God’s divine help. But sometimes the idea of breaking free is much simpler than the reality of it. Building on the principles of her bestseller Satisfied, Dr. Rhona takes the methods of recovery and helps you apply them to your everyday life in The Satisfied Guide to Eating Well. Her holistic approach not only satisfies your soul but also nurtures your body through a practical and transformative food plan. With wisdom gleaned from her extensive experience as a renowned therapist and wellness expert, she offers useful advice for implementing healthy choices and guides you toward creating a personal food plan that can fit your life, every day. In these pages, you’ll find: - Step-by-step resources for customizing a food plan that will work for you. - Solutions for permanently changing your mindset about food. - Tips and tricks for navigating social situations while also keeping your food plan in place. - Simple recipes to nourish your body and help you stay on track. Take the Satisfied method to another level with The Satisfied Guide to Eating Well and find true freedom on the other side!
Operation First Novel 2013 contest winner, Prime of Life was released in Kindle edition only and has garnered in excess of 175 positive reviews with over 6,000 paid downloads.
Experience this dynamic 90-day journey and satisfy your true hunger. Are you satisfied with your relationship with food? And if not, are you ready to take those first steps toward food freedom? Maybe you question if you're brave enough to face the oppressive power food has over you, or the way it makes you feel about yourself. Maybe you're only beginning to recognize your relationship with food isn't a healthy one. Or maybe you've lost hope that anything can change. Dr. Rhona experienced all of this and more. Because she has lived through and overcome food addiction, she knows too well the struggles in beginning the path to freedom. That's why she has written this active devotional journey to encourage you to take those first bold steps towards liberation, with God's help. Satisfied is designed for anyone seeking to change the way they relate to food, from those simply looking for healthier food behaviors, to those deeply struggling with food addiction and abuse, the practical time-tested strategies and tools in this book can ensure that food takes its proper place in your life. Rooted in the 12 Steps of proven recovery programs, and based on Dr. Rhona's experiences in more than 30 years as an addiction recovery counselor, Satisfied pairs scriptural guidance with her counseling expertise. By trusting God one day at a time, He will heal your heart and soul from the inside out. In doing so, you can be truly, fully satisfied.
Begin to break the chains and find freedom from food cravings through this biblically-based 90 day devotional from leading food addiction expert, counselor, and author of Food Triggers, Dr. Rhona Epstein. Satisfied is designed for anyone seeking to change the way they relate to food, from those simply looking for healthier food behaviors to those deeply struggling with food addiction and abuse. The time-tested, spiritual reflections in this book can ensure that food takes its proper place in your life. Rooted in the 12 Steps of proven recovery programs, and based on Dr. Rhona’s experiences in more than thirty years as an addiction recovery counselor, Satisfied pairs scriptural guidance with her counseling expertise. This book is organized into three sections of thirty daily entries, which are influenced by the 12 Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous and Overeaters Anonymous Anonymous and deeply grounded in the spiritual truths of the Bible: Section One: addresses the honesty required to face your food problem. Section Two: focuses more on underlying issues of food abuse—the emotional and relational triggers Section Three: a broader range of practical skills and ideas to help you sustain long-term change Dr. Rhona has lived through and overcome food addiction, so she knows all too well the struggles in beginning the path to freedom. That’s why she has written this active devotional journey—to encourage you to take those first bold steps towards liberation, with God’s help. By trusting God one day at a time, He will heal your heart and soul from the inside out. In doing so, you can be truly, fully satisfied.
Achieving College Dreams: How a University-Charter District Partnership Created an Early College High School tells the story of a remarkable 10-year collaboration between the University of California, Berkeley and Aspire Public Schools to develop and nurture the California College Preparatory Academy. Bridging the two cultures--artfully described as "Pac-Man (the charter district) meets chess (the university)"--the school serves as an exemplar in providing low-income and first-generation college youth with an excellent and equitable education. Framed by a longitudinal lens, findings from community-engaged scholarship, and a diversity of voices from students to superintendents, this book charts the journey from the initial decision to open a school to the high school graduation of its first two classes. The book captures struggle, improvement, and success as it takes readers inside the workings of the partnership, the development of the school, and the spillover of effects across district and university. Confronting the challenge of interweaving rigor and support, its authors explore such critical ingredients as teacher-student advisories; school transition; the home-school divide; building a supportive college-preparatory culture; teaching with depth, relational power, and equity; the forging of an academic identity; and scaling up. At a time of sharply unequal schools, glaring disparities in college readiness, and heightened expectations, Achieving College Dreams uniquely extends the knowledge base about how to better prepare underserved students for college eligibility and success. The book also calls for universities to step up to the plate as partners with districts to ensure both excellence and equity in secondary education for all children.
Bestselling author and food addiction expert Dr. Rhona Epstein provides readers with a new resource for finding and keeping food freedom. Following the breakout success of Satisfied and The Satisfied Workbook, food addiction counselor Dr. Rhona is back with Satisfied Journal. Based on her more than thirty years of experience in addiction recovery, this journal uses thoughtful questions and prompts to guide readers deeper into self-reflection as they wrestle with the way they relate to food. Satisfied Journal can be used alongside its companion devotional and workbook or as a standalone tool for continuing the journey toward recovery. Dr. Rhona pairs scriptural encouragement with personal and practical questions to push readers to write honestly about their feelings and experiences with food addiction. The questions and prompts in Satisfied Journal will: - provide a periodic check-in during the recovery process - encourage honest self-reflection - help readers facilitate an intentional relationship with food - challenge readers to be vulnerable with God The newest addition to Dr. Rhona’s Satisfied line, Satisfied Journal is a prayerful and contemplative resource that provides readers with healing as they work through food addiction towards recovery and food freedom.
This book widens the understanding of salvation from a narrow focus on the crucifixion of Jesus Christ to one which is inseparable from creation theology. In this analysis of the Thomist and Irenaean sources of Edward Schillebeeckx's creation faith, God's absolute saving presence to humanity is found to be intrinsic to his creative action. This becomes most explicit in God's humanity in the life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Lewis argues that Jesus is both God's invitation to humanity and is himself the perfect human response to God. Because of this, Jesus' followers are called to be engaged in God's saving action, by working to remove suffering from people and to build a better world in which all may flourish. Schillebeeckx's theology is sometimes thought to divide into two disconnected halves, a pre- and post-Vatican II version. The way in which Schillebeeckx's Christological soteriology has developed over his theological career, before and after Vatican II, is here examined using the Annales model of continuity and change. This book finds that Schillebeeckx both breaks with the language of Chalcedon while remaining adamantly faithful to the truth which it expresses. The final chapters discover how Schillebeeckx's ideas and methods are crucially relevant in an analysis of contemporary social suffering in Ciudad-Juárez by Nancy Pineda-Madrid, and in the project of the Catholic Dialogue School in Flanders by Lieven Boeve.
In this book, first published in 1971, the authors show from first-hand studies of family and working life (and with evidence from many countries, including the socialist societies of Eastern Europe) the nature of the discrimination facing women in the professions – and how various family and employment patterns might contribute to solving it. Their point is not that some new stereotype should be substituted for traditional views of the role of husbands and wives: different patterns fit different situations.
This volume, first published in 1975 with a new introduction by Ziona Strelitz, marked a pioneering contribution to family and leisure studies. The study includes empirical material collected in the form of biographical case studies. The case studies are not only rich in detail and well presented, but they provide a meaning of leisure within the pattern of life of the individuals studied. This book will be of great interest to students of leisure and family studies.
“She has a funny way of looking at you,” a fourth-grader told Rhona Weinstein about his teacher. “She gets that look and says ‘I am very disappointed in you.’ I hate it when she does that. It makes me feel like I’m stupid. Just crazy, stupid, dumb.” Even young children know what adults think of them. All too often, they live down to expectations, as well as up to them. This book is about the context in which expectations play themselves out. Drawing upon a generation of research on self-fulfilling prophecies in education, including the author’s own extensive fieldwork in schools, Reaching Higher argues that our expectations of children are often too low. With compelling case studies, Weinstein shows that children typed early as “not very smart” can go on to accomplish far more than is expected of them by an educational system with too narrow a definition of ability and the way abilities should be nurtured. Weinstein faults the system, pointing out that teachers themselves are harnessed by policies that do not enable them to reach higher for all children. Her analysis takes us beyond current reforms that focus on accountability for test results. With rich descriptions of effective classrooms and schools, Weinstein makes a case for a changed system that will make the most of every child and enable students and teachers to engage more meaningfully in learning.
In our high technology society, there is a growing demand for a better understanding of decision making in high risk situations in order to improve selection, training and operational performance. Decision Making Under Stress presents a state-of-the-art review of psychological theory, in research and practice, on decision making in high pressure and emergency situations. It focuses on the experienced decision makers who deal with such risks, principally on flight decks, at civil emergencies, in industrial settings and military environments. The 29 chapters cover a wide range of perspectives and applications from aviation, military, industry and the emergency services. The authors, all international invited experts in their field, are based in research centers and universities from Europe, North America and Australia. Their common interest is in the theories and methods of a new research domain called NDM (naturalistic decision making). This volume comprises the edited contributions to the Third International NDM conference, sponsored by the US Army Research Institute and the US Naval Air Warfare Center, which was held in Aberdeen, Scotland in September 1996. The NDM researchers are interested in decision making in situations characterised by high risk, time pressure, uncertain goals, ambiguous information and teamwork. The extent to which the NDM approach can explain and predict human performance in such settings is a central theme, discussed with many practical examples and applications. This book is essential reading for applied psychologists, pilots, emergency commanders, military officers, high hazard managers, safety and emergency response professionals.
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