Robin Phipps Woodall Bücher

In Body Supremacy, author Robin Phipps Woodall expands on her first book, Thin Supremacy, and her second book, Diet Supremacy, to describe how these narcissistic belief systems combine to form the foundation for an eating disorder to develop. From the perspective of her own amazing recovery, Woodall presents a discussion about eating disorders as a psychological syndrome stemming from mechanisms of survival. A person suffering with an eating disorder is fighting to survive, even though her defense mechanisms are in fact killing her. This book would interest a reader who wants to study and understand a different point of view for why people hold themselves hostage inside the darkness of an eating disorder. If you are studying eating disorder, work with people who suffer inside the darkness of an eating disorder, or are suffering yourself, this most-informative book was written for you.

In Surrendering Your Survival, author Robin Phipps Woodall describes the perspective of living your life while coming out of the self-centered nature of survival mode that was previously controlled by "thin and diet" supremacy belief systems. When a person rejects those belief systems to instead accept herself unconditionally, survival mechanisms calm down, and her mind shifts open. As people are liberated from narcissistic body images and diet supremacy, they are left to question how they should eat moving forward. For this reason, Woodall describes in Surrendering Your Supremacy the science of hunger and satiety, as well as how important these physical senses are when relearning how to eat without fear or shame. The goal is to renew your relationship with your body and food in such a way that they are not the focus of your life as you move forward. This leads to the glorious and life-saving freedom people experience when they are recovered.

For thousands of years, cultures have pushed physical ideas and concepts of the body as a way for people to achieve superiority and success. Like foot binding to make feet smaller, or the use of corsets to minimize waist size, many of these body images result in painful disability and disfigurement. Today the "superior" body being pushed comes from ideas of health and attractiveness as seen through images of ultra-lean thinness. Author Robin Phipps Woodall calls this "the culture of thin supremacy."In Thin Supremacy, Woodall connects the individual's drive to achieve superior body images to human survival instincts, compelling people to fit in as a way to be viewed as worthy of love and inclusion. Unfortunately, as images of worth based on thinness have become more and more unrealistic, sadly this is on the rise: people suffering from emotional issues stemming from shame about their body. Woodall confronts the culture of thin supremacy-and encourages the reader to question their beliefs about body image.