My Newest Book!
“From Bagels To Buddha”
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 dark side, and ultimately how you face 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.
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See what’s been said about From Bagels to Buddha!
5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful,August 9, 2012 by Debbie on Amazon
In this book Judi Hollis really goes through the steps it took her to become a more spiritual person, which enabled her to keep her weight off for many years. I’ve lost a lot of weight and maintained it too, and life without food – our drug – is often raw and painful. This latest book fits in nicely and importantly with Judi’s previous books, all excellent in helping to explain why we’re fat, why we overeat, what we have to do to stop. But, this book is more personal, more about Judi’s struggle in very literal terms, and it helped me a lot, made me see some of my current issues clearly – which really is her trademark. Her writing is crystal clear and playful, a pleasure to read. I highly recommend this book for anyone with an eating disorder, who’s overweight, has a food problem, or is interested in food problems. Which is everyone.
“Dr. Hollis has found a humorous and shockingly honest way to follow the surrender process toward freedom. Her travels to distant lands and studies with a variety of mentors shows the self-acceptance that can be achieved by turning toward and opening up, instead of turning away and tightening up. 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, Judi transports those who once looked for enlightenment in the bakery aisle.” –Victoria Moran, author of Fit from Within and The Love-Powered Diet
Wow!
June 8, 2012, by Kumuda on amazon
Judi Hollis’ brutally honest style in which she writes From Bagels to Buddha demonstrates the tremendous courage and self introspection she has used to overcome her own food addiction. She is a living example of how to get well and stay well in a society which pushes superficial pleasures, the idea that more is better, a greedy desire for things, and false facades. Judy is willing to let you see even the ugly side of herself so that you too might be encouraged to accept your own ugly and unclaimed side and find your own worth and recovery. This book will speak to anyone with an any addiction as well as encourage anyone in a twelve step program.
“Fat is a Family Affair”
“See how weight loss affects all family members and what you can do to help yourself.”
“Hot & Heavy”
Let Conscious, Connected Sex
Replace Diets and Binges
This ground breaking book will show you how to end the continuous battle of yo-yo dieting, bingeing, starving and other nightmares attendant to women’s request to be unnaturally thin in hopes of being sexually attractive. Author Judi Hollis, a world-renewed expert on eating disorders and addiction, has discovered that most overeaters, bulimics and anorexics substitute food for sex—transferring their erotic desires to satisfactions of the palate. This book will teach you how to reclaim your own innate sexuality, and thereby heal your unhealthy relationship with food and eating. Case studies, comments from workshop participants and guided exercises for conscious eating—all from the author’s consulting practice and radio shows—will teach you how to integrate the book’s heartwarming, yet serious, revelations into your own daily behavioral routine.
If you or someone you love struggles with overeating or not eating, this book is a must-read, as well as a potential lifesaver. If you have sensed something lacking in your sex life, Dr. Hollis’ instructions for healing the mind/body split will take you back to bed to connect with your spiritual Self
“More then a book about how to celebrate food and sex—this is an amazingly sensual literary experience. Hollis’ ingredients are a passion for her subject, a tenderness for her readers, a cornucopia of intriguing bits of valuable information, lush words pictures that create a lingering mood and delicious humor. A scrumptious read.“
-Sylvia Cary
“Fat & Furious”
Dr. Judi Hollis, founder of the nation’s first eating disorders hospital unit, reports that in thirty years of clinical practice, she has never met a starving or bingeing person who wasn’t raging within. Why? What is the link between unexpressed anger and food obsession?
In Fat & Furious, Dr. Hollis traces the rage back to the “mother-daughter wound”where, at the root of all disordered eating, is one painful truth—our mothers passed on denial about their own true pain, making healthy separation for their daughters impossible. And when daughters cannot claim their lives they try to sedate, control and suppress themselves—with food.
Dr. Hollis cautions that facing the mother-daughter wound does not mean blaming your mother. The challenge is to fearlessly confront the ways the ways in which we are repeating the dynamics of the mother-daughter relationship in our lives today. Fat & Furious in not an answer book. It is a book that will teach you how to ask probing questions—the first step to self-healing. With the wisdom and guidance in Fat & Furious, you will begin to hear and trust your own inner voice—and you will never be hungry again.