Shrink Yourself

Shrink Yourself (2007) is a book on emotional eating by Roger Gould. In Shrink Yourself, Gould suggests that the powerlessness people feel over food cravings is a cover-up for a deeper sense of powerlessness in five other areas of their lives. By recovering one's power in five key areas, Gould suggests one also recovers power over food cravings.[1]

Shrink Yourself: Break Free from Emotional Eating Forever
First edition
AuthorRoger Gould
LanguageEnglish
SubjectEmotional eating
PublisherWiley
ISBN978-0470044858

The five areas he identifies are:

  1. The Self-Doubt Layer: feeling powerless about how to deal with self-doubts.
  2. The Frustration/Reward Layer: feeling powerless about how to get real satisfaction in life.
  3. The Safety Layer: feeling powerless to insure personal safety.
  4. The Rebellion Layer: feeling powerless to appropriately assert personal independence.
  5. The Emptiness Layer: feeling powerless to fill oneself up when feeling empty inside.

References
  1. Gould, Roger. Shrink Yourself: Break Free from Emotional Eating Forever. Wiley. Hoboken, 2007.


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