Grace Sutton spent twenty years believing she had a discipline problem. She could run a department and manage a household, and she could not, apparently, stop eating standing up at the kitchen counter at ten o’clock at night. Every January she resolved to fix it. Every February she had another piece of evidence that something was wrong with her.

What eventually changed things was not another plan. It was understanding that the eating was doing something for her — regulating a feeling she had no other way to manage — and that every rule she imposed made the next episode more likely, not less.

Grace is not a clinician or a dietitian, and she writes that way deliberately. Her books contain no meal plans, no calorie counts, and no promises about anyone’s body. They are not treatment, and where a reader’s pattern needs professional care, her books say so plainly and point the way.

The Peace With Food Series is the result: eight books covering emotional eating, stress eating, sugar cravings, night eating, food guilt, bingeing, eating without rules, and the body image underneath all of it — written for the reader who has been fighting herself about food for long enough. Grace writes and publishes independently.