iMove Book

iMove, Helping Your Clients Heal from Compulsive Exercise

Does overcoming compulsive exercise feel impossible to your clients? Telling them to stop doesn’t work. Telling them to limit exercise only works to an extent. There are endless resources available to help your clients heal their relationship with food. Until now, there was no clear roadmap available to help clients heal from disordered exercise.

In iMove: Helping Your Clients Heal from Compulsive Exercise, Amy Gardner, a certified eating disorder specialist and consultant, licensed dietitian/nutritionist, and yoga teacher with over twenty-five years of experience shows you how to help your clients move out of a compulsive exercise pattern. Pulling from her own experience with compulsive exercise and from her work with many clients, she will teach you how to:

• Identify compulsive exercise patterns and how to help clients overcome them
• Understand the medical risks that accompany compulsive exercise
• Figure out why it’s so hard for your clients to stop compulsively exercising
• Create a safe space to explore your client’s relationship with exercise 
• Help clients find alternative ways to regulate their nervous systems
• Work with clients to experiment with movement that fosters a stronger mind-body connection and aligns with eating disorder recovery
• Guide clients into a more integrated experience with exercise and their bodies

This is the Intuitive Eating and Mindful Eating for movement. After reading this book, you will feel competent in your ability to help clients presenting with compulsive exercise. This is a resource all eating disorder clinicians need in their library. Learn the iMove method and guide your clients out of unhealthy exercise behaviors!