Itýs Not About the Weight

About the Book

Dr. Susan J. Mendelsohn is all too familiar with eating disorders: she has personally wrestled with them for more than fifteen years. It's Not about the Weight: Attacking Eating Disorders from the Inside Out is part self-help guide and part memoir that tackles growing up with-and growing through-the challenge of body image distortions.

Whether you're just beginning your battle with an eating disorder (ED) or have struggled for years, this guide addresses the common themes of weight and body image preoccupations, the psychological place in which you may find yourself and, most importantly, how you can manage these obsessions through practical steps of self-healing-from the inside out.

Weaving real-life cases of Dr. Mendelsohn's clinical practice with her own personal struggles, this compelling success story shows you the appropriate steps in how to overcome the obstacles of weight and body image, how to triumphantly manage weight during recovery, how to maintain an overall satisfying existence, and how to finally live your life no matter what shape, size, or weight you are at any given time. Take this unique opportunity to let It's Not about the Weight guide you to a successful recovery and an overall healthy and balanced lifestyle!

About the Author

Susan J. Mendelsohn, Psy.D., is a doctor of clinical psychology and has been a professor of psychology for fourteen years. She specializes in the treatment of eating disorders and lives in Cincinnati, Ohio. She is a co-host of Blog Talk Radio on the third Wednesday of each month at 8:00 PM EST. She has also been featured in various national magazines, radio, and television including: 12 on Health Times - Connecticut, HealthRadio.Net, WFNY 92.3 -Talk That Rocks with Bob Salter, The Wall Street Journal, Low Carb Woman, Glamour, First for Women, The Daily Mirror(UK), The Business Courier, the Cincinnati Enquirer, the Cincinnati Post, Hyde Park Living, Cincy Jewish Living, Style and Leisure, WORK-TV-13 (Rochester, NY), WVXU, WXIX, NKY Magazine, WCPO, WMUB, WBOB talk radio, AOL, and many others. Please see, In the Media for some of my live interviews Dr. Mendelsohn was honored by the Presidential Who's Who Among Business and Professional Achievers as a VIP for 2008-2009. I have been named as the Professional of the Year in Clinical Psychology of 2007-2008 by Cambridge Who's Who. Further, I she has been chosen as the 2004 Businesswoman of the Year in Ohio by the NRCC. In addition, Dr. Mendelsohn was chosen as the 2007 Alumni of the Year at Carlos Albizu University (previously known as Miami Institute of Psychology). In addition, she is a supporter and advocate of the SNAP network (Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests). Her areas of expertise are eating disorders, disordered eating, body image, relationship counseling and stress management. Being a specialist in eating disorders allows me the extensive experience to serve clients with most mental illnesses, such as mood and anxiety disorders, relational and abuse (sexual, physical, emotional ) issues and many more challenges that are often underlying the manifested eating disordered diagnosis. Dr. Mendelsohn is a member in good standing of the American Psychological Association (APA), the National Eating Disorders Association (NEDA), the International Association of Eating Disorders Professionals Foundation (IAEDP) and the Ohio Psychological Association (OPA).