Essstörungen & Körperwahrnehmung

I don't want to be another statistic.After everything I've been through, I'm more focused than ever on healing myself and living the kind of life I want. But with my dad up for parole and Jon's athletic career over with a single injury, my dreams are turning into a nightmare.I have so many questions. How can I heal when everything around me seems so broken? How can I live my life when the person who hurt me might walk free? And the hardest question of all: How can Jon know he loves me if he doesn't even know who he is anymore?Abi's story comes to an end in an incredible, emotional, tumultuous journey. Read the final book in The Texas High Series: Abi for a heartfelt story you will never forget.

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Isle of the Lost, Alex & Eliza and Something in Between comes a powerful story about learning to love yourself.<BR><BR>Olivia “Liv” Blakely looks like she is living the perfect life. She’s caught the attention of her teen TV-star crush, started rubbing elbows with the popular crowd, and her dad is running for governor. There’s a lot to Like.<BR><BR>But the outside world never sees the full story. With all the good fortune piling on, Liv has been feeling the pressure, too: pressure to maintain that perfect image for her family, her new friends and the public, who love to find fault on social media. Behind Liv’s sunny, charming facade is a dark inner voice that will settle for nothing less than perfection—no matter the cost. Soon Liv’s struggle to shine in the spotlight becomes a daily battle with self-doubt and bulimia.<BR><BR>As the high price of perfection puts her in danger of real bodily and spiritual harm, Liv will have to learn that there is no one out there worth loving more than she loves herself.

The things 17-year-old Erin Post wants are drastically different from the things she needs. A junior in high school, Erin wants nothing more than to be thin.In reality, she's a depressed girl with a serious eating disorder who needs to stop starving herself. When Erin's mother insists that she see a psychiatrist, Erin runs away to Chicago. There, she meets Lin and Ari, two homeless teens who show her that's there's a lot more to the world than being thin and fitting in.Soon after making her new friends, Erin is given a choice. She can either help her new friends and risk having to face psychiatric treatment, or continue her path toward thinness.A 2017 Golden Pen Award Nominee, THIN is a poignant story of self-esteem, courage and redemption.

The things 17-year-old Erin Post wants are drastically different from the things she needs. A junior in high school, Erin wants nothing more than to be thin.In reality, she's a depressed girl with a serious eating disorder who needs to stop starving herself. When Erin's mother insists that she see a psychiatrist, Erin runs away to Chicago. There, she meets Lin and Ari, two homeless teens who show her that's there's a lot more to the world than being thin and fitting in.Soon after making her new friends, Erin is given a choice. She can either help her new friends and risk having to face psychiatric treatment, or continue her path toward thinness.A 2017 Golden Pen Award Nominee, THIN is a poignant story of self-esteem, courage and redemption.This is the large print edition of Thin, with a larger font / typeface for easier reading.

A darkly comic and heartbreakingly honest YA novel about finding the courage to help a friend who can't stop hurting herself.<BR><BR>Zoe and Hank (short for Hannah) have been inseparable since they met in elementary school. The leader of the pack, Zoe is effortlessly popular while Hank hides comfortably in her shadow. But when Zoe's parents unexpectedly divorce, Zoe's perfect facade starts cracking little by little. Sinking under the weight of her broken family, Zoe develops an eating disorder. Now she must rely on Hank for help. <BR><BR>Hank struggles to help Zoe; after all, she is used to agreeing, not leading. How can she help her best friend get better before it's too late? <BR><BR>Written partially in letters from Zoe and mostly in narrative from Hank's perspective, Abby Sher's Miss You Love You Hate You Bye is a poignant and eye-opening novel about friendship, mental health, and learning to put yourself first.

Based on a true storyA powerful and compassionate novel about illness, identity and the will to live.Set in 1950s Australia, A Dangerous Daughter follows Ivy, a teenage girl from an immigrant family standing on the threshold of adulthood while silently battling undiagnosed anorexia nervosa. In a world shaped by shame, silence and misunderstanding, Ivy must confront The Voice - the relentless inner presence that threatens to destroy her.Written with psychological precision and deep empathy, this novel blends lived experience with fiction to explore the struggle between the pull of self-destruction and the force of survival. Through psychoanalysis, Ivy begins a fragile journey toward understanding, resilience and hope.Based on true events from the author's life, A Dangerous Daughter offers a moving portrayal of mental illness that educates as much as it heals. Ivy's story speaks to anyone who has lived with mental health challenges, eating disorders, or the burden of being misunderstood - and to those who love them.

<BR>Love, Simon meets Friday Night Lights in this feelgood LGBTQ+ romance about a trans teen torn between standing up for his rights and staying stealth.<BR><BR>'A sharply observant and vividly drawn debut. I loved every minute I spent in this story' - Becky Albertalli<BR><BR>Fifteen-year-old Spencer Harris is a proud nerd, an awesome big brother and a Messi-in-training. He's also transgender. After transitioning at his old school leads to a year of bullying, Spencer gets a fresh start at Oakley, the most liberal private school in Ohio. <BR><BR>At Oakley, Spencer seems to have it all: more accepting classmates, a decent shot at a starting position on the boy's soccer team, great new friends, and maybe even something more than friendship with one of his teammates. The problem is, no one at Oakley knows Spencer is trans - he's passing. <BR><BR>So when a discriminatory law forces Spencer's coach to bench him after he discovers the 'F' on Spencer's birth certificate, Spencer has to make a choice: cheer his team on from the sidelines or publicly fight for his right to play, even if it means coming out to everyone - including the guy he's falling for.<BR><BR>Perfect for fans of Red, White and Royal Blue.

Healing.Eighteen-year-old Emma Harper finally thinks she’s doing okay. Probably.She has an alien prisoner, a patient boyfriend, and the best brother ever.Even their sentient spaceship thinks she’s on the right track.When jealousy rears its ugly head, Emma has to decide whether she can handle this whole revolution against space tyranny thing or not.Thousands of lives, some human and some not, hang in the balance.In this fourth installment of the Harper revolution series, the real battle begins over a distant planet.

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Uncertain.Eighteen-year-old Emma Harper knows she has a problem. Now she has to learn to live with it.Learning to eat like a normal person, though, is the least of her worries. When hostile aliens interrupt her attempt to get herself and her Marines home to Earth, she'll have to evade capture and figure out what really matters to her. Who is she? How can she help? What can she even do a zillion light years from everything she's ever known?Five lives hang on the answers, and she doesn't even know where to start.

This book is for every girl who has ever looked in the mirror and criticized her own reflection; for every girl who has ever compared herself negatively to others; for every girl who has ever thought of dieting; and for every girl who is already struggling with negative body image issues and unhealthy eating habits.Learning to Love the Girl in the Mirror is a "must read" for any teenage girl. It's packed full of self-empowering and self-loving tools that will leave you feeling Supergirl confident.In a world where advertising, celebrity culture and social media reign, it's becoming more and more common for young girls to have some form of negative body issue or eating disorder. This is not only harmful and dangerous on a personal level, it's also destructive and disempowering for womanhood as a whole, and it's got to STOP now!This is Helena's brutally honest story of how she overcame the battle with her own body and went from miserable and self-hating to absolutely loving the skin she's in! Still in her early twenties, Helena completely relates to her fellow young women in the most loving and supportive way. Helena's mission is to inspire young women that it is possible to love and appreciate your body in a completely healthy way. This book is packed full of the tools that will help any young girl to do exactly that.

From the award-winning author of Break and Teeth comes a raw and honest exploration of complicated identities in a novel about a girl living on the fringe of every fringe group in her small town.<BR><BR>Etta is tired of dealing with all of the labels and categories that seem so important to everyone else in her small Nebraska hometown.<BR> <BR>Everywhere she turns, someone feels she's too fringe for the fringe. Not gay enough for the Dykes, her ex-clique, thanks to a recent relationship with a boy; not tiny and white enough for ballet, her first passion; not sick enough to look anorexic (partially thanks to recovery). Etta doesn't fit anywhere—until she meets Bianca, the straight, white, Christian, and seriously sick girl in Etta's therapy group. Both girls are auditioning for Brentwood, a prestigious New York theater academy that is so not Nebraska. Bianca might be Etta's salvation...but can Etta be saved by a girl who needs saving herself?

Now a Netflix feature film, starring Jennifer Aniston, Danielle Macdonald, and Dove Cameron, as well as a soundtrack from Dolly Parton!The #1 New York Times bestseller and feel-good YA of the year—about Willowdean Dixon, the fearless, funny, and totally unforgettable heroine who takes on her small town’s beauty pageant.Self-proclaimed fat girl Willowdean Dickson (dubbed “Dumplin’” by her former beauty queen mom) has always been at home in her own skin. Her thoughts on having the ultimate bikini body? Put a bikini on your body.With her all-American beauty best friend, Ellen, by her side, things have always worked . . . until Will takes a job at Harpy’s, the local fast-food joint. There she meets Private School Bo, a hot former jock. Will isn’t surprised to find herself attracted to Bo. But she is surprised when he seems to like her back. Instead of finding new heights of self-assurance in her relationship with Bo, Will starts to doubt herself. So she sets out to take back her confidence by doing the most horrifying thing she can imagine: entering the Miss Clover City beauty pageant—along with several other unlikely candidates—to show the world that she deserves to be up there as much as any girl does.Along the way, she’ll shock the hell out of Clover City—and maybe herself most of all.