BookPeople Presents: Vanessa Scaringi and Kathryn Garland

BookPeople welcomes Vanessa Scaringi and Kathryn Garland in conversation with Mallary Tenore Tarpley to celebrate Hungry for Connection.
About this Event

Format:

• This event is free and open to the public.
• Location: The 2nd floor of BookPeople.
• Run time: 45-60 minute discussion, followed by a signing line.

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• The author will be personalizing copies of the book.
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About the book:

In our increasingly isolated world of technology and social media, people are feeling lonely and hungry for connection—and turning to food in an effort to “fill the void.” Based on attachment theory, this timely book reframes emotional and disordered eating as a deeper struggle for meaning and security. With this guide, readers will learn to heal the attachment wounds that drive their emotional eating, and nourish true connection instead.

Are you hungry for connection?

Do you turn to food for comfort when you’re feeling lonely, anxious, or depressed? Perhaps you have a history of yo-yo dieting, or use food to deal with stress? If you struggle with emotional eating, undereating, or obsessions about nutrition, you may have an insecure attachment style that is driving your behavior. You aren’t alone. In our increasingly isolated world of technology and social media, people are turning to food or diet culture in an effort to “fill the void,” only to be left unsatisfied and unfulfilled. So, how can you nourish true connection instead?

Based in attachment theory, this essential and timely book reframes emotional and restrictive eating as a deeper struggle for safety and security. With this guide, you’ll identify and examine your own attachment style, learn how attachment wounds can impact your relationship with food, and decrease your dependence on food behaviors as a tool to self-regulate, relieve pain, and find comfort.

With this compassionate guide, you will discover tools to:

• Identify why you turn to food to numb painful feelings
• Explore the role of social media in feelings of isolation
• Cultivate healthy coping behaviors
• Feel safer and more secure in your relationships

With this groundbreaking guide, you’ll find powerful skills to heal from the loneliness, anxiety, and attachment wounds that cause disordered eating, and live with more connectedness, meaning, and true fulfillment.

About the authors:

Vanessa Scaringi, PhD, CEDS-C, is a licensed psychologist and certified eating disorder specialist. She co-owns a group therapy practice, CALM Counseling, that specializes in women’s health issues. Vanessa maintains a blog for Psychology Today, and her writing has been featured in TIME. She lives in Central Texas.
Kathryn Garland, LCSW, CEDS-C, is a clinical social worker and certified eating disorder specialist. Kathryn co-owns a group therapy practice, CALM Counseling, in Austin, TX. She completed post-graduate training in psychoanalytic psychotherapy in New York City and has spent the last two decades practicing from an attachment-based lens as well as training other therapists in these methods. She lives in Central Texas.

About the moderator:

Mallary Tenore Tarpley is a journalism and writing professor at the University of Texas at Austin’s Moody College of Communication and McCombs School of Business. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, Time, and Teen Vogue, among other publications. She is the recipient of a prestigious Alfred P. Sloan Foundation grant, which helped support her research and writing. Mallary graduated from Providence College and has a Master of Fine Arts in nonfiction writing from Goucher College. She lives outside of Austin, Texas, with her husband and two children. Slip is her first book.

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Thank you for supporting Vanessa Scaringi, Kathryn Garland, Mallary Tenore Tarpley, and your local independent bookstore!