From Bagels to Buddha: How I Found My Soul and Lost My Fat Original Edition
Author(s): Judi Hollis (author) (Author)
Publisher: Central Recovery Press
Publication Date: 5 July 2012
Edition: Original
Language: English
Print length: 300 pages
ISBN-10: 1936290812
ISBN-13: 9781936290819
Book Description
“According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), obesity affects over 33 percent of Americans that’s one third of adults. Medical costs associated with obesity are estimated at $147 billion and obese adults are at a higher risk for coronary heart disease, type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, stroke, liver and Gallbladder disease, and respiratory problems. In From Bagels to Buddha, a successful therapist, renowned for her work with addictive and obese families, uses her own story to illustrate her message that a spiritual life is the key to sustaining weight loss and ending food obsessions. Dr. Hollis tells us that the path to permanent weight loss has little to do with what you are eating or what’s eating you, but rather involves changing how you behave, how you interact with others, how you face your own dark side, and ultimately how you accept life on life’s terms. Only then will you start eating to nurture your true inner being and only then will enough ever be enough. Written in an unexpectedly witty and self-deprecating style, Dr. Hollis recounts some humbling learning experiences, such as her nerve-racking first appearance on Oprah that caused her to vow never to do TV again, and an uncomfortable stay at a Buddhist Monastery, where she had finagled her way into the last week of a three-week meditation workshop. Her story entertains with many more comical moments, even as it tackles a serious, sometimes life-or-death, subject. “
Editorial Reviews
Review
“Another more personal addition to the pioneering eating disorders work Judi Hollis founded in 1975. In this heartfelt and humorous account, she offers rare insight into the process of letting go to survive.”—John Bradshaw, author of the book and PBS special Bradshaw On: The Family
“Dr. Hollis has found a humorous and shockingly honest way to follow the surrender process toward freedom. With that process comes a more mindful relationship with food.”—Shinzen Young, author of The Science of Enlightenment
“With the humor that can only come from one who’s been there, Dr. Judi Hollis takes us with her as she goes From Bagels to Buddha, the quest for a spiritual life for those who once looked for enlightenment in the bakery aisle.”—Victoria Moran, author of Fit from within and The Love-Powered Diet
About the Author
Judi Hollis: Dr. Judi Hollis has been counseling addicted families since 1967, when she helped open New York City’s Phoenix house Programs. Since that time, she has been training counselors internationally, as well as opening addiction treatment centers around the country, most notably her own HOPE Institutes, which were the first 12-Step eating-disorder units.
She holds graduate degrees in rehabilitation counseling and psychology from the University of Southern California (USC) and is a licensed marriage and family counselor. She has taught at USC, Goddard College, Chapman College and the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA). She has also led community groups and served on hospital staffs around the world.
Her best-selling Fat is a Family Affair was a groundbreaking treatise in the treatment field. It was followed by Fat and Furious, Hot & Heavy and many workbooks, and video- and audiotapes. She currently maintains personal consulting practices on both coasts, dividing her time between New York and Palm Springs.
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