Breaking the Strings: A Guide to Recovery After Residential Treatment for Eating Disorders is an indispensable guide for patients who are leaving residential treatment and making the difficult transition back to “the real world”—where they got sick. That transition, if it is made with great care and expert guidance, can make all the difference between recovering or slipping back into an eating disorder or even death.

There is no precedent to Breaking the Strings; it is a unique guide that should be given to every patient upon discharge from res. Although the book is geared primarily to teens, it is also appropriate for young adults who are leaving res. The definitive guide to post-treatment transition, Breaking the Strings helps readers build a solid foundation for recovery from home.

Written by Quin Mann Weil—a teen who has been there and successfully made the transition—this book is for other teens like herself and those in their 20’s, who are getting out of treatment. Deeply researched and filled with personal experiences, practical strategies, and interviews with others who have gone through the process, Breaking the Strings guides the reader through the often confusing and painful transition from residential treatment to life at home. Along with a candid account of her own recovery, Quin shares her mistakes, with an eye to helping her readers avoid them. Chapters are concisely written for teens with short attention spans, and offer journal prompts to help readers reflect on their own recovery, create a plan for wellness, and make concrete behavioral changes. In addition, each chapter includes a 300-400 word sidebar that offers recovery tips, insights, and advice from an expert.

Breaking the Strings provides something more than any other book of its kind: it offers expert guidance from a teen for the millions of other teens and young adults, who hope to get well after residential treatment for an eating disorder—just like Quin. In this book, her readers will find an eminently trustworthy guide, as they navigate their own recovery.