The Healing Shelf: Conversations with Tamie Gangloff - Virtual Book Club
Chronic Illness and Eating Disorders: Assessment, Clinical Skills and Lived Experiences by Tamie Gangloff explores the complex intersection between chronic medical conditions and disordered eating—an area often overlooked in both clinical and personal conversations.
🌿 What the Book Covers
Lived Experience: Gangloff shares her own journey with scoliosis, PTSD, substance abuse, and eating disorders, grounding the book in real-life vulnerability and resilience.
Clinical Insight: It offers tools for therapists, dietitians, and medical professionals to better understand body image disturbance (vs. distortion), and how chronic illness can shape one’s relationship with food and self.
Treatment Approaches: Modalities like EMDR, CBT, and body neutrality are discussed, alongside strategies for navigating weight stigma and medical trauma.
Themes Explored:
Invisible disabilities and grief
Pre/postoperative mental health
Chronic pain and its psychological toll
The impact of illness on relationships and identity
Building resilience and redefining quality of life