Mom, I Feel Fat: Becoming Your Daughter's Ally in Developing a Healthy Body Image - eBook

Sharon A. Hersh is a licensed professional counselor who coaches mothers and daughters to use the challenges in their relationship to strengthen their relationship. She is the director of Women's Recovery & Renewal, a ministry of counseling,
retreat, and support services for struggling women and their caregivers. The author of Bravehearts: Unlocking the Courage to Love with Abandon, she lives with her family in the Denver, Colorado area.

"Sharon Hersh has written a sensitive, thoughtful, and extremely valuable resource for mothers of girls. Her encouragement to love our daughters as God loves us, have faith in our mother's heart, and be real with our daughters is very wise. This book will help us raise young women with healthy body image and self-esteem and create a lifetime mother-daughter bond."
--Sandy Richardson Executive Director of The Remuda Foundation
and the author of Soul Hunger

"Mom, I Feel Fat! is timely, culturally informed, realistic, and Biblically based. This book will open the lines of mother-daughter communication on issues that our daughters are literally dying to talk about."
--Walt Mueller, Founder and President, The Center for Parent/Youth Understanding

"Finally, a book that says out loud what most Moms worry about in secret! This book is not only full of advice on eating disorders but it also has great questions to spark deeper conversations between any mother and daughter."
--Susan Alexander Yates, bestselling author of several books including
And Then I Had Teenagers: Encouragement for Parents of Teens and Preteens

"This well-written book is not a formula for an easy fix to the complex struggles of disordered eating, but an honest, refreshing, and practical resource for families struggling to overcome a serious challenge to the health of young women. Anyone who cares about the plight of young women today will benefit from reading Mom, I Feel Fat! I highly recommend it to parents, adolescent girls, youth workers, and teachers?in short, to anyone in a place of influence."
--Brett Andrews, National Training Director of Youth for Christ Canada, author of thesis Preparing Leaders for the Evangelism of Youth