RESOURCES
Intuitive Eating & Mindful Eating
How to Raise an Intuitive Eater: Raising the Next Generation with Food and Body by Sumner Brooks and Amee Severson. This book helps parents unpack their own issues with food and body to help raise the next generation without these issues.
Self Compassion
Needy by Mara Glatzel
“In Needy, Mara Glatzel shares her unique approach to identifying, honoring, and advocating for the most tender and true parts of yourself that yearn to be acknowledged. She invites you to embody self-acceptance, which leads to meaningful growth in self-responsibility, self-care, self- trust, and self-love”
I Thought It Was Just Me, But It Isn’t by Brene Brown
“At first glance, we might think its because we admire perfection, but that's not the case. We are actually the most attracted to people we consider to be authentic and down-to-earth. We love people who are real; we're drawn to those who both embrace their imperfections and radiate self-acceptance. Based on seven years of ground-breaking research and hundreds of interviews, I Thought It Was Just Me shines a long-overdue light on an important truth: Our imperfections are what connect us to each other and to our humanity. Our vulnerabilities are not weaknesses; they are powerful reminders to keep our hearts and minds open to the reality that we're all in this together.”
Body Image
More than a Body: Your Body is an Instrument, Not an Ornament by Linsday Kite PhD and Lexie Kite PhD.
“From Media consumption to health and fitness to self reflection and self-compassion, Lindsay and Lexie share powerful and practice advice that goes beyond “body positivity” to help readers develop body image resilience- all while cutting through the empty promises sold by media, advertisers, and the beauty and weight loss industries.”
Body Talk by Katie Sturino
“Sturino is here to help you stop obsessing about your body issues, focus on self-love, and free up space in your brain for creative and productive energy. Complete with empowering affirmations, relatable anecdotes, and actionable takeaways, as well as space to answer prompts and jot down feelings and inspirations, Body Talk encourages you to spend less time thinking about how you look and what you eat and more time discovering your inner fierceness.”
Living with Your Body and Other Things You Hate by Emily K. Sandoz PhD & Troy DuFrene
“In this book, you will not be told that your self-perceptions are wrong, that your thoughts are irrational, or that your feelings are misguided. Instead, you will learn to live with the reality that these often painful thoughts and beliefs about yourself will arise from time to time, and that what is really important is accepting these distressing thoughts without allowing them to dominate your life.”
The Body Image Workbook by Thomas F. Cash, PhD
“The Body Image Workbook offers a comprehensive program to help you stop focusing on your perceived imperfections and start feeling more confident about the way you look. As you complete the helpsheets in this book, you'll learn to celebrate your body instead of feeling ashamed of it. This new edition includes discussions of our obsession with physical appearance and with body-fixing options. It helps you discover your personal body image strengths and vulnerabilities and then guides you in creating new, life-changing experiences of mindfulness and body acceptance.”
The Body Is Not an Apology by Sonya Renee Taylor
“The Body Is Not an Apology offers radical self-love as the balm to heal the wounds inflicted by these violent systems. World-renowned activist and poet Sonya Renee Taylor invites us to reconnect with the radical origins of our minds and bodies and celebrate our collective, enduring strength.”
What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat by Aubrey Gordon
“Aubrey Gordon unearths the cultural attitudes and social systems that have led to people being denied basic needs because they are fat and calls for social justice movements to be inclusive of plus-sized people’s experiences.”
Parent & Caregiver Resources
FEAST the global organization of and serving parents like you around the world. We are here to help you understand your son or daughter’s eating disorder, support you in helping them get appropriate treatment, and get you the information you need to help them recover and thrive.
Anorexia and other Eating Disorders by Eva Musby
“With a wealth of practical examples and tips that have helped many tens of thousands of relieved parents, Eva Musby guides you through each stage of your son or daughter's recovery. She provides solace and confidence, while addressing the real-life questions that parents struggle with.”
Eva Musby Help for parents of children and teens suffering from anorexia and other eating disorders and thrive.
Fat Talk: Parenting in the Age of Diet Culture by Virginia Sole-Smith
“This book helps parents examine their beliefs about weight and food and reduce the impact of diet culture on the next generation”
When Your Teen Has an Eating Disorder by Lauren Mulheim PsyD
“With this guide, you'll learn to respectfully and lovingly oversee your teen's nutritional rehabilitation, which includes helping to normalize eating behaviors, managing meals, expanding food flexibility, teaching independent and intuitive eating habits, and using coping strategies and recovery skills to prevent relapse.”
Medical Consequences of Eating Disorders
Health at Every Size & Anti-Diet
"You Just Need to Lose Weight": And 19 Other Myths About Fat People by Aubrey Gordon
Aubrey Gordon equips listeners with the facts and figures to reframe myths about fatness in order to dismantle the anti-fat bias ingrained in how we think about and treat fat people. Bringing her dozen years of community organizing and training to bear, Gordon shares the rhetorical approaches she and other organizers employ to not only counter these pernicious myths, but to dismantle the anti-fat bias that so often underpin them.
Health at Every Size By Lindo Bacon PhD
“Fat isn't the problem. Dieting is the problem. A society that rejects anyone whose body shape or size doesn't match an impossible ideal is the problem. A medical establishment that equates "thin" with "healthy" is the problem. The solution? Health at Every Size. Tune in to your body's expert guidance. Find the joy in movement. Eat what you want, when you want, choosing pleasurable foods that help you to feel good. You too can feel great in your body right now and Health at Every Size will show you how.”
“In Anti-Diet, Christy Harrison takes on diet culture and the multi-billion-dollar industries that profit from it, exposing all the ways it robs people of their time, money, health, and happiness. It will turn what you think you know about health and wellness upside down, as Harrison explores the history of diet culture, how it's infiltrated the health and wellness world, how to recognize it in all its sneaky forms, and how letting go of efforts to lose weight or eat "perfectly" actually helps to improve people's health - no matter their size. Drawing on scientific research, personal experience, and stories from patients and colleagues, Anti-Diet provides a radical alternative to diet culture, and helps listeners reclaim their bodies, minds, and lives so they can focus on the things that truly matter.”
The F*ck It Diet By Caroline Dooner
“In The F*ck It Diet, Caroline Dooner tackles the inherent flaws of dieting and diet culture and offers listeners a counterintuitively simple path to healing their physical, emotional, and mental relationship with food. What’s the secret anti-diet? Eat. Whatever you want. Honor your appetite and listen to your hunger. Trust that your body knows what it is doing. Oh, and don’t forget to rest, breathe, and be kind to yourself while you’re at it.”
Weight Science: Evaluating the Evidence for a Paradigm Shift by Linda Bacon & Lucy Aphramor
This peer reviewed research article published in the Nutrition Journal in 2011 evaluates the evidence that supports using a weight-neutral approach to health rather than the current guidelines of weight loss for “overweight” and “obese” individuals.
Podcasts
Food Psych with Christy Harrison
The Mindful Dietitian with Fiona Sutherland
Dietitians Unplugged with Glenys Oyston and Aaron Flores
Body Kindness with Rebecca Scritchfield
Unpacking Weight Science with Fiona Willer
Eating Disorders Recovery Podcast with Tabitha Farrar
The Eating Disorder Recovery Podcast with Janean Anderson .