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• The Joy of S-T-R-E-T-C-H-I-N-G: Daily Stretching Benefits for Your Body and Mind

• Gotta Do Ems 2.0

• Fear of Success Following Significant Weight Loss

• Weight Loss Medications… Are They The Be All and End All?

• The Unexpected Emotional and Social Effects After Successful Weight Loss

• The Guilt and Shame After Compulsive Eating

• The Importance of Creating Boundaries With Food

• Why I Can’t Stop Eating

• Weight Loss, Weight Maintenance, and Identity

• How Stress Can Affect Your Weight Loss Efforts

• Bariatric Realities: Causes of Obesity - What Factors Can YOU Influence (Part One of Three)

• Bariatric Realities - Medical Professionals' Guidelines about Alcohol Use & WLS

• Helping the MD's...

• Create a 3-Step Plan To Be Your Best Self

• Relationships after WLS – Helping Yourself Helps Others

• Drinking Alcohol After Weight Loss Surgery

• Is Food Addiction a Problem for You?

• There’s No Such Thing As Food Addiction

• Three Keys To Sustained Weight Loss

• 10 Tips For Healthy Dating

• WLS: Balance in Recovery Post-Op

• Ten Tips for Battling Food (and Family) Over the Holidays

• Inadequately Trained to Help Obese Patients?

• 10 Tips For Reducing Holiday Stress

• 10 Thanksgiving Tips for Cutting Calories

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Books

• The Beck Diet Solution: Train Your Brain to Think Like a Thin Person by Judith S. Beck, PhD

• The Diet Trap Solution: Train Your Brain to Lose Weight and Keep It Off for Good by Judith S. Beck and Deborah Beck Busis

• Why Weight?: A Guide to Ending Compulsive Eating by Geneen Roth

• Feeding the Hungry Heart: The Experience of Compulsive Eating by Geneen Roth

• The Ultimate Weight Solution: The 7 Keys to Weight Loss Freedom by Phil McGraw

• Change Your Brain, Change Your Body: Use Your Brain to Get and Keep the Body You Have Always Wanted by Daniel G. Amen

• A Course in Weight Loss: 21 Spiritual Lessons for Surrendering Your Weight Forever by Marianne Williamson

• Living the Truth: Transform Your Life Through the Power of Insight and Honesty by Keith Ablow

Free Downloads

• Gotta Do Ems

• Thoughts/Feelings/Behaviors

• Daily Reflections Form

• Articles by Dr. Stapleton

• Tips For Refraining From Trigger Foods/Bingeing/Overeating

• Letter to Food

• Motivation Worksheet

• Be Your Genuine SELF

• Control Worksheet

• Addiction and Love Worksheet

• Emotional Eating Awareness Form

• Protection Plan: Part A

• Protection Plan: Part B

• Protection Plan: Part C

• Protection Plan: Part D

• STOP Emotional Eating

• Investigate Your Eating

• Adulting and Boundaries

• Meaningful Matters

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Books

• Weight Loss Surgery Does NOT Treat Food Addiction by Connie Stapleton, Ph.D. (available June 2017)

• Food Junkies by Vera Tarman and Philip Werdell

Videos

• Food Addiction: FIRM & FAIR

Assessment

• Yale Food Addiction Scale (free downloads for assessment and scoring)

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Books

• Living the Truth: Transform Your Life Through the Power of Insight and Honesty by Keith Ablow

• Adult Children Secrets of Dysfunctional Families: The Secrets of Dysfunctional Families by John Friel and Linda Friel

• An Adult Child's Guide to What's 'Normal' by John Friel and Linda Friel

• In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction by Gabor Maté

• When the Body Says No: Understanding the Stress-Disease Connection by Gabor Maté

• The Relaxation Response by Herbert Benson M.D. and Miriam Z. Klipper

• Change Your Brain, Change Your Life: The Breakthrough Program for Conquering Anxiety, Depression, Obsessiveness, Lack of Focus, Anger, and Memory Problems by Daniel G. Amen, M.D.

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Videos

• OH 2025 Dr. Connie Stapleton Seminar: Triggers vs. True Needs: Breaking the Cycle of Addiction

Books

• Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself by Melody Beattie

• You're Not Crazy - You're Codependent.: What Everyone Affected by Addiction, Abuse, Trauma or Toxic Shame Needs to Know by Jeanette Menter

• A Gentle Path through the Twelve Steps: The Classic Guide for All People in the Process of Recovery by Patrick J. Carnes

• The Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous (Including Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions) by Alcoholics Anonymous

• Living the Truth: Transform Your Life Through the Power of Insight and Honesty by Keith Ablow

• Adult Children Secrets of Dysfunctional Families: The Secrets of Dysfunctional Families by John Friel and Linda Friel

• An Adult Child's Guide to What's 'Normal' by John Friel and Linda Friel

• Healing the Shame that Binds You: Recovery Classics Edition by John Bradshaw

• Healing the Child Within: Discovery and Recovery for Adult Children of Dysfunctional Families by Charles Whitfield and Cardwell Nuckols, Ph.D.

• In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction by Gabor Maté

• Healing the Addicted Brain: The Revolutionary, Science-Based Alcoholism and Addiction Recovery Program by Harold Urschel

• Hijacking the Brain: How Drug and Alcohol Addiction Hijacks our Brains - The Science Behind Twelve-Step Recovery by Louis Teresi and Harry Haroutunian

• Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition by A.A. World Services Inc.

• Facing the Shadow: Starting Sexual and Relationship Recovery by Patrick Carnes

• Bradshaw On: The Family: A New Way of Creating Solid Self-Esteem by John Bradshaw

• The Relaxation Response by Herbert Benson and Miriam Z. Klipper

• Sexaholics Anonymous by SA Literature

• Facing the Shadow: Starting Sexual and Relationship Recovery by Patrick Carnes

• The Betrayal Bond: Breaking Free of Exploitive Relationships by Patrick Carnes, Ph.D.

• Out of the Shadows: Understanding Sexual Addiction by Patrick J. Carnes, Ph.D.

• Facing the Shadow by Patrick Carnes

• Recovery Zone, Volume 2: Achieving Balance in Your Life: The External Tasks by Patrick Carnes

• Recovery Zone, Vol. 1: Making Changes that Last - The Internal Tasks by Patrick J. Carnes

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Books

• Hold On to Your Kids: Why Parents Need to Matter More Than Peers by Gordon Neufeld by Gordon Neufeld and Gabor Mate M.D.

• The Truth About Love: The Highs, the Lows, and How You Can Make It Last Forever by Dr. Patricia Love

• Getting the Love You Want: A Guide for Couples, 20th Anniversary Edition by Harville Hendrix

• Boundaries: When to Say Yes, How to Say No to Take Control of Your Life by Henry Cloud

• Boundaries in Marriage by Henry Cloud

• The Relationship Cure: A 5 Step Guide to Strengthening Your Marriage, Family, and Friendships by John Gottman

• The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work: A Practical Guide from the Country's Foremost Relationship Expert by John Gottman Ph.D. and Nan Silver

• Raising An Emotionally Intelligent Child by John Gottman, Ph.D. and Joan Declaire

• Getting the Love You Want: A Guide for Couples by Harville Hendrix

• Keeping the Love You Find: A Personal Guide by Harville Hendrix, Ph.D.

• The 5 Love Languages: The Secret to Love that Lasts by Gary D Chapman

• The 7 Best Things Happy Couples Do...plus one by John Friel, Ph.D. and Linda Friel M.A.

• Why am I Afraid to Tell You Who I am? by John Powell

• Living the Truth: Transform Your Life Through the Power of Insight and Honesty by Keith Ablow

• The 7 Best Things Smart Teens Do by John Friel and Linda D. Friel

• Bradshaw On: The Family: A New Way of Creating Solid Self-Esteem by John Bradshaw

• The 7 Worst Things Good Parents Do by John Friel Ph.D. and Linda Friel M.A.

• Parenting With Love And Logic by Foster Cline and Jim Fay

• How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk by Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish

• The 5 Love Languages of Teenagers: The Secret to Loving Teens Effectively by Gary D Chapman

• Family Secrets - The Path from Shame to Healing by John Bradshaw

• Creating Love: The Next Great Stage of Growth by John Bradshaw

• Healing The Child Within: Discovery and Recovery for Adult Children of Dysfunctional Families by Charles L. Whitfield M.D.

• Staying in Love Participant's Guide: Falling in Love Is Easy, Staying in Love Requires a Plan by Andy Stanley

• When Work and Family Collide: Keeping Your Job from Cheating Your Family by Andy Stanley

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Books

• The Grace of God by Andy Stanley

• Ask It: The Question That Will Revolutionize How You Make Decisions by Andy Stanley

• The New Rules for Love, Sex, and Dating by Andy Stanley

• Enemies of the Heart: Breaking Free from the Four Emotions That Control You by Andy Stanley

• How to Be Rich: It's Not What You Have. It's What You Do With What You Have. by Andy Stanley

• How Good Is Good Enough? by Andy Stanley

• Louder Than Words: The Power of Uncompromised Living by Andy Stanley

• Staying in Love Participant's Guide: Falling in Love Is Easy, Staying in Love Requires a Plan by Andy Stanley

• When Work and Family Collide: Keeping Your Job from Cheating Your Family by Andy Stanley

• The Best Question Ever by Andy Stanley

• Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life by Richard Rohr

• Breathing Under Water: Spirituality and the Twelve Steps by Richard Rohr O.F.M.

• Immortal Diamond by Richard Rohr

• Small Victories: Spotting Improbable Moments of Grace by Anne Lamott

• Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith by Anne Lamott

• Stitches by Anne Lamott

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