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Not Your Mother's Diet: The Cure for Your Eating Issues

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Kathleen Fuller's, Not you Mother's Diet: The Cure for your Eating Issues, is an amazingly well written book on the very complex topic of eating problems. As a Psychologist in the field for thirty years I have come across many interesting books on this subject, however, most were either too complex or too basic for the average reader. This book on the other hand is the perfect balance. It is very specific with numerous real life examples and easy techniques that are really helpful. It's a type of workbook that doesn't read like a typical workbook, which are often too difficult to read and digest. Dr.Fuller's book is a sweet,loving, and gentle read, easy to get through, yet, packed with so many practical hands on techniques that are so useful. I have already recommended this fantastic book to many family,friends, and patients/clients, and have found it useful as a psychotherapist myself in my own clinical work with patients. In addition, the techniques in this book are easiy generalizable to other problems like stress, anxiety, and depression. I give this fantastic book my highest review/recommendation!

Dr Fuller is a real world therapist who has "been there and done that" on so many levels--from her own personal roller coaster of eating disorders to her many years as a therapist conseling and guiding her patients to healthy body image and positive self esteem.

What I really liked about the book is the many tools she provides to help you get thru and past the myrid of issues that negative body beliefs and food misconceptions keep you stuck.

Thanks Kathleen for assisting me in releasing these self-limiting beliefs about myself and onto a lighter and healthier me.

Serendipity may well come into play at all times in our lives, but for me receiving and reading psychotherapist, hypno-therapist, lecturer, and author, Kathleen Fuller's book, "Not Your Mother's Diet: The Cure for Your Eating Issues," came at a moment where the necessity for spiritual guidance became a pivotal concern in my life.

I'd been wrestling with a dilemma that concerned a good friend of mine that challenged my very definition of friendship. After discovering some things about this person that just didn't add up in what I deemed a positive way, I found myself running through the gamut of emotions: betrayal, incredulity, anger, disgust--and then as these stronger lower level feelings faded I climbed my superiority pedestal and emoted sadness and compassion and the final thanks-be-to-the-Almighty, "Wow, aren't you thrilled to the gills that you don't have to stoop that low."

Simultaneously to receiving Fuller's book, out of the most beautiful blue, I began a wonderful correspondence with an extraordinary someone on the Internet that instantly understood that with which I was struggling. From him came and still comes a marvelous nudging to recognize and follow my own path. Acceptance and love was the answer, but recognizing this is simple, doing is extremely difficult. My Internet Guru urged me to meditate and let the power of my imagination give me the answer.

Lo and behold, I begin to read "Not Your Mother's Diet." Expecting to read yet another diatribe about eating natural foods in smaller portions complete with a 30-day calorically acceptable breakfast, lunch and dinner plan mapped out with appropriate blanks for transgressions and substitutions, I find instead a guide to discovering myself. Just what the doctor ordered! Fuller gets right to the point up front--understand your imbalance and its gradual elimination will follow. On a broader plane, her keys to success can be utilized in every aspect of life, not just conquering the dieting frontier.

Fuller starts the reader off with exercises that better acquaint the reader with his/her true self. As her techniques encompass those utilized by many licensed spiritual therapists (the book itself is laid out in a workbook fashion), the reader quickly grasps in an ah-ha type moment that quite obviously it is the mind that is preventing ultimate success, be it dieting success or otherwise. Fuller provides the mental bulldozer to rid oneself of self imposed roadblocks with the formidable directive to live in the present--the NOW--rather than in the shade of the past with all its un-fixable disappointments.

With each chapter, Fuller hands over the tools to empower and take charge. Fuller's arsenal is too plentiful to explain entirely, but, trust me, her weaponry is not only extensive but complete. Many of her techniques are simple to do--spoken aloud verbalizations and imaginings while meditating within the confines of the mind's special place. She teaches you how to identify hidden feelings in order to take positive action and plot a `genogram', an interesting tool used in understanding influences in that resembles a family tree but maps out the emotional relationships between family members to enable one to understand where certain mentalities originate. All the exercises move the reader towards a sense of self-awareness and leads to actually becoming comfortable in the skin he/she is in.

Fuller mentions a few diet books to use in conjunction with this workbook, so don't expect any food commentaries or "take small bites" dieting tips--"Not Your Mother's Diet" strictly addresses the idea of inner healing towards balance where the weight loss will follow as a natural progression.

For me, Dr. Fuller's exercises lent insight to myself and helped me to see the problem I was facing from another vantage point. After all we look at other people and as we are all human beings connected in some metaphysical way, we see mirrors of ourselves.

Bottom line? If you are expecting Kathleen Fuller's "Not Your Mother's Diet' to provide the usual sensible diet information, think again. There are no menus or tips to be garnered here. Recommendations on certain programs contained in other books, yes. However, as Fuller astutely cites, true wellness comes from a healing of self, requiring intimate understanding of the mechanisms that hold us back from attaining our true selves. Through a series of repetitive exercises, Fuller gets us to see ourselves from within and to trace back our disability and dysfunction with regard to dieting failures with a truer understanding of self. In any regard, "Not Your Mother's Diet" outlines a program that will provide anyone with the keys to greater self-awareness. Recommended with gratitude to Dr. Fuller's insight.
Diana Faillace Von Behren
"reneofc"

"Not Your Mother's Diet" is not another one of those diet books! Anyone who has ever dieted can write them themselves. Instead, Kathleen Fuller wisely teaches the importance of knowing the difference between the word "trying" to teaching specific techniques that create successful "doing". She takes the time to banish those myths we have all been told are the only way to lose weight. Her unusual, creative, thought provoking techniques take the focus off food and replaces it with the importance of self-love. After reading this book, you will no longer be a victim of food again. You'll embrace a lifestyle that finally offers you the joy of peace.

A fascinating theme in Kathleen Fuller's book is the awareness of, and empowering use of the cycles that pervade our lives. She shows how cycles constantly affect other cycles. For example understanding underlying emotional ones creates emotional control. In turn, that can change eating habits from binge-and-purge and the resulting health problems to rejuvenating nutrition leading to physical, emotional and mental well-being.
To this end, included with many other tools, Kathleen provides an "Emotional Awareness Chart" and a "Graduate Level Feeling Chart" to keep track of and map out emotional patterns. Later in the book there is another chart for noting major personal events and how they fit into cyclic patterns. The self-discovery that comes from using these enables a reader to get a conscious handle on her life. Contrast this with the personally destructive habits that blindly drive so many people.
There's more: going through the exercises in the book, the charts and journals, allows anyone using them to "get above" her life situation, whatever that may be. Then comes the realization of really being a spiritual entity, Soul. And having a divine, loving, creative nature; Soul will use the body, emotions and mind to make her life a source of wonder, joy and enlightenment!

Kathleen Fuller's book is amazing and wonderful. She addresses all areas of eating issues and renders a solution for all. This book is thorough but simplistic, in-depth but very easy to read and understand. Her work and exercises are simple to follow and produce lasting life long results. A must read for anyone with any kind of eating issues!!

Finally a helpful, refreshing and useful book with inspiring ideas and practices that really work.
During our lifetimes my sister and I tried, I believe, all diets ever thought of
by human kind about any existing weight problems.
Each diet would focus on foods: what to eat what not to eat. And of course if I focus on food I;m an immediate failure at losing weight because that's all I can think about:food. The more I think about food the more I want to eat.
Kathleen's book takes the focus off of food and onto the the whole person and gives new channels to pursue.
The book shows whole new perspectives that can give help to a person even if he or she does not have a weight or food problem. A refreshing plunge into the higher self.
Read the book. There's something enlightening for everybody.

When I first opened the book, I didn't know what to expect. Very pleasantly surprised. Ms. Fuller seems to have gotten to the heart of whatever angle of her subject she addresses. The flow of what she presents, and the way she references other chapters and explains what the subject matter is, in a very concise, spiritually oriented way, without being preachy, and a very down to earth approach to round it all out makes this book exceptional. This is a book that will not go out of date, from my perspective. Kudos for an exceptionally well-written, researched book.

Maggie De

I have had the pleasure of knowing Kathleen for over 24 years. We have worked together with
youth programs and created uplifting spiritual techniques. Kathleen's experience spans 27
years of studying dreams, creativity, and the imagination which has culminated in her book's
approach; especially chapter seven which is entitled Dreams, Creativity, and Imagination.
The technique in chapter seven that helped me shift my consciousness is, `Strengthening Your
Muscles for Active Creativity'. It reads, "Please note that if you have been passive for some
time, passive activities easily become the most uncontrolled habits. The result is you become
the effect of them. The most common passive habits are overeating, spending money and
shopping, too much radio, television or movies. In a balance these activities are okay, but too
much results in your creative abilities becoming weak. Like physical muscles (which are
dormant when healing a broken bone), your creative abilities have a tendency to atrophy, too.
So start slowly with creative exercises and let them gradually build up your "creative muscles."
I encourage you to read Not Your Mother's Diet because it can help you let go of what is not
working in your life and then go build what will work for your peace of mind.

Not Your Mother's Diet is different from any other diet book I've ever read. The author, Dr. Kathleen Fuller doesn't advocate counting calories, eating only safe foods, or exercising x number of hours per day. There are plenty of resources for that kind of diet program, Instead, this revolutionary book goes to the core of the problem and provides the tools to cure it. Simply put, unhealthy habits illustrate how we feel about ourselves. Are we stuffing emotions? Do we use that number on the scale to berate ourselves for not being perfect? How can a woman develop self esteem with this kind of habitual self-talk?
I like the approach set out in Not Your Mother's Diet. You can find even more information at http://www.notyourmothersdiet.com. Essentially, learn and understand yourself (that is your true self) so that you can love yourself and treat yourself with the care and respect you deserve. This book shows you how to really let go of all the senseless past experiences and judgments that only serve as an excuse to punish yourself for wrongs you mistakenly stored in your subconscious mind. Only then can you raise your self confidence, find a loving relationship, and enjoy a fulfilling social life.