Heidi Schauster - Nourish: How to Heal Your Relationship with Food, Body, and Self

Praise for Nourish

Our way of relating to food in contemporary culture has been twisted by fear, unmet needs for love, and the need to control. In this brilliant and groundbreaking book, youll discover a powerful way to let go of dieting and awaken an intimate, intuitive connection with your body, mind, and spirit.

Tara Brach

Author of Radical Acceptance and True Refuge

With great insight and compassion, Heidi offers a way out of the common struggle with diet and weight. She supports her 10 steps with a compelling blend of professional experience, personal experience, and scientific evidence that addresses not only our relationship with food but also our deep need for self-acceptance and a way of life that nurtures mind, body, and soul. Bravo!

Susan Kano

Author of Making Peace with Food

If youre looking for a book that will help you feel more sane and comfortable around food while learning to eat more nutritiously, Nourish is an excellent choice. Heidi provides a blend of her personal recovery experience and professional and clinical wisdom that will guide you well on the road to recovery.

Karen R. Koenig, MEd, LCSW

Author of seven books on improving eating and self-care

Heidi has met the challenge of putting her nutrition-counseling techniques into written form, allowing the ripples of her work to spread far beyond those lucky individuals who get to meet with her in person.

Jessica Setnick, MS, RD, CEDRD

Author of The Eating Disorders Clinical Pocket Guide
and Eating Disorders Boot Camp

I have read so many books on food, diet, and health, and I finally feel I can stop. Heidis book reminds us that we are all unique and that, instead of looking for the right way to eat from the experts, all of the answers are actually inside ourselves. Our bodies know. This book is filled with great advice, real stories, and examples. Ultimately, Heidi is a reassuring guide, helping us find our way back to natural, healthy, intuitive eating.

Ingrid Kelada

Psychologist and author of 21 Days to Happiness

Nourish is full of tools to change ones relationship with food. But this book is about so much more. Heidi guides people to stop relentlessly trying again and again without experiencing change. She encourages people to step away from the roar of self-hatred and to step toward self-love. This book offers a motivating, realistic lens to change how you listen to your hunger (physically and emotionally) and to make choices that bring peace and nourishment. We cant live happily without our basic needs being metbeing well fed and choosing healthy relationships, among other things. Nourish is like no other book Ive read, and it is a gift to the health field and the world in general. Bravo.

Hannah Saxe, LICSW

Therapist and Eating Disorder Specialist

Thank you, Heidi, for writing this important contribution to the field of nutrition therapy. This book provides a clear understanding of how our clients recover and, more importantly, offers the tools for anyone to begin their journey. This will be a nourishing staple for clinicians and clients alike. Bravo!

Lisa M. Pearl, MS, RDN, CEDRD-S

Certified Eating Disorders Specialist and Supervisor

This is a must-read for anyone working with people struggling with eating disorders or disordered eating. Heidis own personal experience and honest examination of this topic are inspiring and very hopeful. So many of her statements about recovery will stick with me forever. Heidi walks people through the process of recovery in a non-critical manner and does this with ease. This book was a joy to read, and I will be recommending it to all of my clients.

Beth Mayer, LICSW

Executive Director of MEDA,
The Multi-Service Eating Disorders Association

Nourish speaks to the reader as Heidi speaks in personwith authenticity, playfulness, clarity, vulnerability, and, paramountly, with wisdom and respect. Heidi is a dancer and a storyteller at heart, as well as an artful nutrition therapist; her creative work with our shared clients has been a giant component in their stories of recovery. It is always a delight working alongside Heidi, and that sense of delight dances straight through the pages of Nourish. If you dont have the good fortune to work with Heidi live, then read her book because you get to not only drink in the bounty of her unique knowledgeyou also get to take her home with you!

Lauren Manasse, LICSW, CEDS-S

Certified Eating Disorder Specialist and Supervisor

Nourish is the much-needed book that integrates the science of nutrition with holistic and attuned self-care. Heidi provides practical guidance on how to eat but within the context of intuitive self-knowledge. This is literally the only nutrition book I feel safe recommending to my clients. Thank you, Heidi!

Marci Evans, MS, CEDRD-S, LDN, cPT

Food and Body Image Healer; Eating Disorders Expert

Nourish reaches out to hurting individuals on so many levels. Its not about eating disorders as much as it is about learning to unwind and reconnect with yourself so you can correctly interpret your own needs. Its about dismantling all of our preconceived ideas about what we should be like and learning to relax and become confident in who we are. This reaches beyond eating to so many other areas of life.

Nicole Spear, MS, CNS, CFMP

Certified Nutrition Specialist Professional

Certified Functional Medicine Practitioner

Author of Healthy Gut, Healthy Life

This book is like a warm hug or a cool hand on your forehead when youre overheated with hating your tummy or your thighs, or thinking youre not good enough, for any reason. Heidi takes you by the hand and shows you how to eat for what your body really needs. As a nutrition therapist, and someone who suffered from the same issues she addresses, you can tell that Heidi knows what shes talking about and has helped many people in her practice. This awesome book is your opportunity to have Heidi help you. Buy a copy for every one of your friends who obsesses about her weight or body shape. She will thank you for it.

Lynda Goldman

Author of Write to Heal

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HEIDI SCHAUSTER, MS, RDN, CEDRD-S

Copyrighted Material

Nourish: How to Heal Your Relationship with Food, Body, and Self

Copyright 2018 by Heidi Schauster

Hummingbird Press, Somerville, MA

Printed in the United States of America

Cover and Interior: 1106 Design

Publishers Cataloging-In-Publication Data

(Prepared by The Donohue Group, Inc.)

Names: Schauster, Heidi.

Title: Nourish : how to heal your relationship with food,
body, and self / Heidi Schauster, MS, RDN, CEDRD-S.

Description: Somerville, MA : Hummingbird Press,
[2018] | Includes bibliographical references.

Identifiers: ISBN 9780999512005 (paperback) | ISBN 9780999512012 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Food habits--Psychological aspects. | Compulsive eating-
Psychological aspects. | Self-esteem. | Mind and body. | Nutrition.

Classification: LCC TX357 .S38 2018 (print) | LCC TX357 (ebook) | DDC 613.2--dc23

Library of Congress Control Number: 2018934537

For information about this title or to order books in quantity, contact the author directly:

Heidi Schauster, MS, RDN, CEDRD-S

Nourishing Words Nutrition Therapy

617-877-2202

http://anourishingword.com