testimonials

As a physician specializing in eating disorders, I am always looking for comprehensive resources that are appropriate for educating medical colleagues as well as patients and family members. I think that Robyn does an excellent job of presenting complex issues associated with eating disorders in a way that is informative and easy to understand. I would highly recommend The Eating Disorder Trap for anyone who wants to expand their eating disorder knowledge

– Lesley Williams, MD, CEDS
Author of Free to Be Me: Self love for All Sizes

The eating disorder field has needed this book for a long time. Robyn does an excellent job of providing a solid resource for providers and loved ones. She explains the seriousness, consequences and prevalence of eating disorder and provides examples of how to identify, assess and treat them in an easy to read and understandable way. Robyn dismantles nutrition myths and stresses that an ’empathetic collaboration’ between providers, clients and family is essential to recovery. Essential read for providers and loved ones.

– Stephanie Brooks, MS, RDN, CEDRD-S
Founder of Bay Area Nutrition LLC

Most treatment for people with eating disorders is delivered by clinicians without specialized training or experience with these complicated illnesses. The Eating Disorder Trap: A Guide for Clinicians and Loved Ones is a rich resource of both research knowledge and clinical wisdom about the assessment and treatment of eating disorders. Robyn translates complicated clinical and medical information into accessible and practical recommendations. This book provides well referenced and cutting edge information about the medical, nutritional and psychological aspects of these disorders, providing clinicians, patients, and families with the knowledge and perspective they need to support full recovery. This is a book I will recommend to clinicians, clients and their support team.

– Douglas W. Bunnell, Ph.D., CEDS-S
Fellow, Academy for Eating Disorders

Robyn Goldberg’s, The Eating Disorder Trap: A Guide for Clinicians and Loved Ones, will not only benefit those with eating disorders, but the hundreds of millions of individuals known as ‘disordered eaters’.

She reminds us to address the sources of eating challenges in current times — weight stigma, the dieting culture, health fads and negative body image that bind millions of individuals in a collective consciousness of disordered eating, suffering and shame. Robyn Goldberg offers a compassionate, intelligent, and readable roadmap through the morass of finding ones’ way out, toward freedom.

– Francie White, Ph.D., RDN
Tending the Feminine Psyche—Eating Disorder Professional Trainings

Everyone needs to read this book. It is an essential, comprehensive guide, chock full of practical and implementable tools. The Eating Disorder Trap: A Guide for Clinicians and Loved Ones is modern, progressive and eloquently dybunks the myths we have about eating disorders. Whether you need a strong starting place, or you are looking to advance your existing knowledge, Robyn’s guide is for you.

– Signe Darpinian, LMFT, CEDS-S
President SF Bay Area iaedp™Chapter
Co-author of No Weigh!

This is one of the best books I have read in some time. Even beyond your professionals audience, it is presented in an format that a lay person would find this an easy read. The layout of the chapters allow one’s knowledge to develop in a progressive sensible manner. I found the updated information on statistics, diagnostics, nutrition, support and professional support convincingly informative. As an expert therapist in the field of eating disorders, The Eating Disorder Trap: A Guide for Clinicians and Loved Ones will be in my office as a standard read for consulting professionals, patients and family members. Congratulations on a job well done. As usual, your passion and dedication to the healing arts has produced an invaluable resource that will benefit professionals and individuals with eating disorders exceptionally well.

– James D. Runyan, MS, LMFT, LPC, CEDS, F. iaedp
Past President IAEDP

Start here! The Eating Disorder Trap will help those with eating disorders, their loved ones, and clinicians new to the field find their path towards healing and helping.

– Leslie Schilling, RDN, CEDRD-S, Nutrition Therapist,
Creator & Coauthor of Born to Eat

This book offers something for everyone. The information is fundamental for all who are impacted by eating disorders. Whether you are someone suffering from an eating disorder, a family member or friend of a suffer, clinician, coach or teacher … you will find yourself flipping through this book to garner insights on a regular basis. Robyn has done an exceptional job of taking a complicated topic and dispensing essential information in a practical, easily understood fashion.

– Reba Sloan, MPH, LRD, FAED
Fellow of the Academy for Eating Disorders

Comprehensive, orderly and backed by years of solid experience, Robyn Goldberg’s The Eating Disorder Trap: A Guide for Clinicians and Loved 0nes is your go-to for the facts on eating disorders!

– Kathryn Cortese, LCSW, ACSW, CEDS
Editor-In-Chief Gurze/Salucore Eating Disorders Resource Catalogue

In The Eating Disorder Trap, Robyn L. Goldberg, RDN, CEDRD-S, offers a clear and comprehensive picture of how eating disorders emerge and the challenges in treating them. Her book is accessible to general readers and full of insights for professional behavioral health veterans. One of the book’s important messages is the need to push back against weight shaming and rethink our demonization of fat. I recommend this book as a starting point and framework for thinking about how dietitians such as myself can develop a better means for meeting the nutritional needs of people in recovery from all types of eating disorders.

– Ralph E Carson, RD, CEDRD, Ph.D.
Author of The Brain Fix
Senior clinical and research advisor to the Eating Recovery Center