This revealing and useful book tells how emotions can cause bad eating habits and provides an effective antidote to radical crash diets. The author uses a cognitive-behavioral approach, and offers an encouraging alternative to current theories on the causes on overeating, such as psychopathology, addiction, or moral weakness. Emotional Eating shows how to identify individual patterns of emotional eating, and then tells readers how to respond to these patterns. Filled with tables charts, and self-assessment tests, Emotional Eating can help you learn self-control by identifying emotional triggers and developing alternative behaviors.

Sardonyx, the fiery green gemstone created by volcanic eruption, describes Another Thursday's Child's unique life. The tales that chronicle the life of the author Elaine Abramson prove just how true that is. Throughout her life, adversity and misfortune frequently led to hilarity as she struggled to overcome the myriad of obstacles life dropkicked in her path including headhunters, crazed bosses, customers off their rocker, scammers and people stealing her identity, a self-help guru with kinky ideas, a poisoned dinner, a runaway child, young love, and a singing judge who coveted her husband. Her hilarious journey took her across the United States. Elaine's journey is far from over, but her adventures are sure to touch your heart with tears and laughter.

A nursery rhyme by anonymous says that Thursday's Child has far to go. The poet could not have been more right The tales that chronicle the life of author and artist Elaine Sandra Abramson prove just how true that is. Throughout her life, adversity and misfortune frequently led to hilarity as she struggled to overcome the myriad of obstacles life dropkicked into her path. From deadly stalkers and crazed bosses, to unwanted suitors and the dreaded IRS, her hilarious journey took her from the sands and windswept streets of Jerusalem to the desert heat of Texas. Elaine's journey is far from over, but her adventures are sure to touch the reader's heart with tears and laughter.