From Appetite to Agency: A Neuroscience-Informed Guide to the Emotional and Behavioral Side of GLP-1 Use

Name: From Appetite to Agency: A Neuroscience-Informed Guide to the Emotional and Behavioral Side of GLP-1 Use
Author: Johnson, Dr Charryse
ISBN: 9798182901307

Johnson, Dr Charryse

Language: English

Published by Dr.Charryse Johnson, 2026

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Title: From Appetite to Agency: A Neuroscience-Informed Guide to the Emotional and Behavioral Side of GLP-1 Use
Author: Johnson, Dr Charryse
Publisher: Dr.Charryse Johnson
Publication year: 2026
Condition: New
Binding: Soft cover
Language: English
ISBN 13: 9798182901307

GLP-1 medications can quiet the hunger. The patterns beneath it still need you.

For millions of people, medications like semaglutide have changed their relationship with food almost overnight. The constant food noise goes quiet. The cravings ease. But appetite was never only physical. Beneath it sit years of emotion, habit, identity, and the quiet rules we learned about comfort, control, and what our bodies are supposed to mean. No prescription reaches that part. That is the work this book is for.

In From Appetite to Agency, licensed clinical mental health counselor and behavioral health strategist Dr. Charryse Johnson brings a neuroscience-informed lens to the emotional and behavioral side of GLP-1 use, the dimension that determines whether change actually lasts. Drawing on more than a decade of clinical practice, she offers a clear, compassionate framework for moving from reacting to your cravings toward authoring your choices, so the transformation holds long after the dose.

Inside, you will learn why the food noise going quiet can feel unexpectedly unsettling, how weight loss and mindset change on completely different timelines, and what to do when the mirror changes before the mind does. You will find practical, clinically grounded tools for emotional eating, impulse regulation, body image, and identity, including her signature Awareness, Alignment, Agency approach and the Pause, Name, Nourish method. Dedicated chapters address the hormonal realities of perimenopause, the psychology of weight regain, navigating the taper, and building the self-trust that makes long-term change sustainable, whether you stay on medication or not.

This is not a book about shrinking yourself. It is about strengthening your relationship with yourself. Whether you are considering a GLP-1, currently using one, supporting someone who is, or working alongside clients navigating this terrain, From Appetite to Agency offers the psychological foundation the medication cannot provide, and a path toward a fuller life, not just a smaller body.

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Dr. Charryse Johnson, LCMHC, NCC, is a licensed clinical mental health counselor, behavioral health strategist, and nationally recognized authority on the psychology of eating, metabolic health, and sustainable behavior change. For more than a decade, she has helped people understand and transform the emotional and neurological patterns that drive their relationship with food, their bodies, and themselves.She holds a Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology with a concentration in crisis and trauma, a master's in Professional Counseling, and credentials as a Nationally Certified Counselor and Registered Yoga Teacher. Her clinical training includes Brainspotting and Emotion-Focused Therapy, and she practices as an Embodied Practitioner, integrating body-based and somatic approaches that reflect the mind-body focus at the center of her work. Her direct clinical experience spans individual therapy, partial hospitalization, intensive outpatient, and group settings, giving her a rare, full-spectrum view of how people actually change.As founder and lead clinician of Jade Integrative Counseling and Wellness, Dr. Johnson works with clients navigating eating behaviors, metabolic health, body image recovery, trauma, burnout, and life transitions. Her expertise has become especially relevant in the GLP-1 era, as patients discover that quieting physical hunger does not automatically resolve the emotional and identity-level patterns beneath it. She collaborates with physicians, integrative clinics, and wellness organizations to ensure the psychological dimension of metabolic change is not left behind.Her influence reaches well beyond the therapy room. She advises Fortune 500 companies and global organizations on behavioral health strategy, speaks nationally as a keynote presenter, and has been recognized as Top Mental Health Professional of the Year by the International Association of Top Professionals. Her insight has been featured across major media, including CNBC, SiriusXM, FOX, CBS, and ABC, and she hosts the talk show Dear Dr. Charryse.Dr. Johnson is the author of Expired Mindsets, Get Off the Scale and Heal, and the Mindset Matters series. Through every book, keynote, and client, she returns to one conviction: lasting change begins in the mind. Learn more at drcharryse.com.

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