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The Big Book of True Recovery from Food Addiction and Beyond

It's Not Broccoli

Dianne Schwartz

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Realization Center Inc.
11 July 2022
If it's not broccoli, what is it?
What blocks us from having a voice, living authentically, and demonstrating our best, most confident selves to the world? Why do we prevent ourselves from accomplishing our goals? Why do we continue to engage in the same destructive patterns that hold us back from living in our potential? In The Big Book of True Recovery from Food Addiction and Beyond, Dianne Schwartz offers the answers and the ultimate solution to the struggles we all experience.

Based on a unique education series designed to help people understand the changes necessary to recover from addiction and regain their health, this book presents the surprisingly simple solution to not only food addiction but also secondary conditions, including substance abuse, resulting from it. In simple and straightforward language, Schwartz deconstructs the pathology of all addictions, with a focus on how biochemical and neurological processes of the brain's reward circuitry is at the foundation of every addictive disorder.

Realization Center is a New York-based addictions treatment center that features a unique food addiction program where food addiction is treated as a biochemical illness with emotional underpinnings to help clients regain dignity and freedom. Men, women, and adolescents in the program learn that weight is not the issue but rather the symptom of their disease. As the disease of food addiction is treated, weight begins to normalize, and energy, mood, and life begin to optimize. In this book, you'll learn what the clients at Realization Center do: The Key to True Recovery from Food Addiction is a specific plan of eating that will relieve you of all cravings and improve your well-being and self-esteem and prevent relapse.
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Imprint:   Realization Center Inc.
Dimensions:   Height: 229mm,  Width: 152mm,  Spine: 29mm
Weight:   857g
ISBN:   9798218034849
Pages:   518
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Dianne Schwartz is the co-owner and co-builder of Realization Center, the oldest and largest licensed outpatient addictions treatment program in Manhattan and Brooklyn. She is credentialed as an alcoholism/substance abuse counselor, but because of her recovery from the suffering that comes with food addiction, her interest and passion is food addiction recovery. She developed the Food Addiction Treatment Program at Realization Center in 1993, and as part of the program, she has been offering a 16-week lecture series for all clients on the relationship between their eating behavior and their alcoholism and/or drug addiction, how their eating affects their sobriety and potential for relapse, and how it all began.Over time, as the reputation of the Food Addiction Treatment Program grew, people with eating problems who did not abuse alcohol or drugs entered the program. Her book The Big Book of True Recovery from Food Addiction is an outgrowth of the lecture series. She has lectured at Fordham University's Annual Addiction Institute in a workshop Broccoli Is Not the Problem: The Real Culprits in Food Addiction. She has presented at master's social work classes at NYU and Fordham University. Her article, Food Addiction: Chemical Dependency's Twin, was published in Behavioral Health News in the Winter 2014 issue.

Reviews for The Big Book of True Recovery from Food Addiction and Beyond: It's Not Broccoli

The Big Book of True Recovery from Food Addiction and Beyond is a wonderful, well-written, easy-to-understand, comprehensive explanation of the relationship between food and addiction. It expands our understanding of addiction, laying bare the genesis of this disease. This book is bound to become a classic in addiction and recovery literature. Her book is an in-depth presentation of the information Dianne offers in her education series. The reader can't miss the message. This book makes it clear why and how the hijacking of the brain by eating issues leads to addiction. I believe this material should be taught in schools as a course in understanding the source of addiction. The Big Book of True Recovery from Food Addiction will help many people. The solution presented is a clear and simple guide for living in freedom from food addiction. It was Realization Center's pleasure to have the stage for the development of this understanding. -Marilyn J. White, Founder and CEO of Realization Center Dianne is widely known as one of the best in the clinical world for her expertise in food and substance addictions. The Big Book of True Recovery from Food Addiction and Beyond: It's Not Broccoli is a must-read and game-changer if you are truly tired of food robbing you of achieving your best life. Dianne's book lays out clear steps that you will want as your companion to accompany you as you cope with the ups and downs of your personal and work life journeys. Food is socially sanctioned and supported until body size indicates the visible evidence of its overuse or underuse, which leads to shame and criticism about lack of willpower. We use food in building personal and work relationships, to cope with regrets, feed spirits, and to rejoice in triumphant celebrations. I believe that love and work are intimately tied and often managed by these relationships with food. As a therapist and career/executive coach, my goal is to help clients to be their best personal and professional selves when it has been blocked by unhealthy relationships with food. This is why I look forward to sharing Dianne's secret of It's Not Broccoli with my clients! -Mary Pender Greene, LCSW-R, CGP, Psychotherapist, Career/Executive Coach, President & CEO of MPG Consulting In her exciting new book, The Big Book of True Recovery from Food Addiction and Beyond, Dianne Schwartz describes her personal experience with multiple expressions of addiction and her blessed recovery which she shares as a recovering person and a professional in the field of addiction treatment. Her personal story describes the traps of addiction. By identifying for us the substances that kept her from achieving clean abstinence, she offers very valuable insights. I recommend this in-depth review of the facts of addictive disease and the processes of successful treatment and recovery. Thank you, Dianne for the many years you have been an effective front-line warrior against the disease of addiction. -Kay Sheppard, MA, LMHC I've always been impressed with Dianne's passion about teaching and exposing the truth about the source issue underlying substance abuse, relapse, mood issues, energy issues, and life issues in general-the addictive eating of refined carbs. Her book, The Big Book of True Recovery of Food Addiction and Beyond, is highly readable, relatable, and remarkable in her development of the understanding of these ideas. She has succeeded in presenting a logical case for her beliefs and offers the solution to what has become a widespread struggle as logical, understandable, and doable. -Dr. Maria Alikakos, DO, Board Certified in General Psychiatry, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, and Addiction Medicine; Medical Director, Realization Center, NY


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