Just by reading your book, over the last 7 months I went from 144 to 128, three pounds from what I weighed in high school. It was so easy and I only became more conscious and decided to remove sugar from my diet.

Diane Conrad

Singer, dancer, performer

Eat by Choice, Not by Habit is a winner

“How brilliant—combining compassionate communication with food and eating.

Brilliant!

Yours truly,

Christiane Northrup, M.D.”

Best selling author of WOMEN’S BODIES, WOMEN’S WISDOM, THE SECRET PLEASURES OF MENOPAUSE PLAYBOOK, THE POWER OF JOY, THE SECRET PLEASURES OF MENOPAUSE

“I really enjoyed your book…. it’s easy and inviting to get into, connecting, lots of good information, and understanding for the many relationships with food. I like that you can jump in at any point and get a morsel! Tasty indeed.”

Bravo! and Thank you for this contribution to NVC offerings in the world!

Love,

Sura Hart

Author of The Compassionate Classroom; Respectful Parents, Respectful Kids and The No-Fault Classroom and creator of the game – The No Fault Zone

I’ve just begin reading your book and I’m really enjoying it.

I like all the references and Sylvia’s soapbox. I love the combination of scientific information and also staying present and mindful and staying connected with feelings and needs.

Mary Mackenzie

Author of Peaceful Living, co-founder of the NVC Academy

Boy, I’m –really– liking your book. I enjoy your depth of knowledge and compelling wisdom. The day I began reading it (two weeks ago) I decided to quit ingesting sugar. I’ve been doing very well. How come I didn’t know sugar impacts osteoporosis? I have osteopenia (pre-osteoporosis condition, reversible, thank goodness). How come doctors don’t know much about food? It’s so crucial.

I think your book is seminal in that it combines facts about food, psychological insight, and a compassionate approach to the problem. I also think it’s very, very timely considering the weight concerns in the country. And your humor…delightful. Honey, I think you’re on your way to fame )

No, really. I wish you much, much luck. May many people benefit from your studies and passion. And may you continue to have great fun presenting your book. May it also contribute to security and sustainability.

With love,

Myra Walden

NVC Trainer

It’s a wonderful book with good information presented in a very kind, loving way.

Mike Milliard

U of Arizona

Hi, I want to give you some feedback on your book. I found it to be very insightful and found the concept of applying NVC to eating to be very refreshing and enlightening. I loaned it to a client who has an eating disorder. We had been discussing the concept of paying attention to feelings when the need for the dysfunctional rituals arise. We had both read of the idea in Eckert Toole’s new book. She came back the next week after reading your book and was thrilled with it. She said it got her through the week and gave her a way to handle her feelings of loneliness that fuel her eating patterns. She was able to sit with the feelings instead of eating them away – for the first time. She and I had each found passages in the book that fit her to the tee and we discussed those passages in therapy. I gave her my copy to keep so I’ll have to get another one from you.

Sylvia, I think you have something very powerful here. In fact those are the words my client used to describe the book’s effect upon her – “powerful.” She and I both said that our only criticism is that it was too short. Each sentence is pregnant with meaning, so pregnant that I found that I had to read and reread some passages in order to fully grasp what was being said. I can see from reading the book that you have spent a lifetime developing your ideas. They are well thought out and deep. They are complex ideas, layered in philosophies of nutrition, psychotherapy, NVC, and spirituality just to mention a few. I thought your book was a marvelous marriage of all the disparate disciplines. These ideas are probably second nature to you now but for the neophytes who have not delved into such philosophies, the concepts are likely to be less transparent. I felt that each concept could have filled a chapter all by itself. Hence, I have a wish. Have you thought of making a workbook? Then writing a companion book with each idea expounded upon so thoroughly that one cannot miss the point? Your book could be a wonderful prelude to something quite great. Congratulations! I hope your book gets into the hands of more people with eating disorders. It is a gold mine.

Barbara Nichols, Ph.D, Psychotherapist

Just want to put in a plug for the E Book Study Guide for Eat By Choice, Not By Habit that Sylvia mentioned tonight on the call.

I’m using it in a small study group and it’s both thought-provoking and includes some really cool exercises.

Rachel Rahn

I bring your book with me to classes I teach on nonviolence when I talk about all of the ways we can apply nonviolence to our lives…when I say ‘eat nonviolently’ that always gets a reaction!

Take care.

Kit Miller

Director of the MK Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence

I had just finished reading, cover to cover, your wonderful book, so I know I savored everything even more. You did a wonderful service by writing Eat By Choice. I found many parts very helpful, and overall I liked your accessible, “real” tone. I also liked the breadth of questions you responded to. May your book be read by many and may many be helped by it!

Laura Markowitz

Writer, editor