Fat & Furious

About the Book

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 and 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 lies about their own 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 in which we are repeating the dynamics of the mother-daughter relationship in our lives today.

Fat and Furious is 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 and Furious, you will begin to hear and trust your own inner voice-and you will never be hungry again.

About the Author

Dr. Judi Hollis has been counseling addicted families since 1967 when she helped open New York City?s Phoenix House Programs. Since that time she went on to open the nation?s first eating disorder unit and has been training counselors internationally as well as opening alcoholism and eating disorder units around the country.

She holds graduate degrees in rehabilitation counseling and counseling psychology from USC and is a licensed Marriage and Family Counselor. She has taught at USC, Goddard College, Chapman College, UCLA, and Omega Institute, Learning Annexes, and many community groups and hospital staffs around the country.

Her bestseller Fat is a Family Affair has served as a groundbreaking treatise in the treatment field. It was followed by Fat & Furious, and then Hot & Heavy, and many workbooks, videos, and audio tapes. She currently maintains personal consulting practices on both coasts, dividing her time between New York City and Palm Springs, California as well as providing worldwide phone consultations.

With her radio show, Dr. ?Jude?s Ladies Locker Room,? she developed an international audience. She is now completing work on a book about resisting the spiritual path titled FROM BAGELS TO BUDDHA. She appears often on television with Oprah, Sally, Maury, Leeza, and others and her work has been featured in Shape, Teen, Glamour, Self, Cosmopolitan, and Elle magazines.

She can be reached at 1-800-8-ENOUGH or www.judihollis.com