
Resources
As an addition to therapy, books and other resources may help you better understand your own your loved ones’ mental health challenges. Here are some that we recommend.
Eating Disorders
BOOK: 8 Keys to Recovery from an Eating Disorder by Carolyn Costin
BOOK: 'You Just Need to Lose Weight’ And 19 Other Myths About Fat People (Myths Made in America) by Aubrey Gordon
BOOK: Health At Every Size: The Truth About Your Weight by Linda Bacon
BOOK: Anti-Diet: Reclaim Your Time, Money, Well-Being, and Happiness Through Intuitive Eating by Christy Harrison, MPH, RD, CEDS
BOOK: Beyond My Body: Recovering from a Complex Eating Disorder, Reclaiming Movement, and Finding My Worth by Ally Rae Pesta and Laura L. Bush PhD
BOOK: Breaking Free from Emotional Eating by Geneen Roth
BOOK: Daring to take up Space by Danielle Koepke
BOOK: Decoding Anorexia by Carrie Arnold
BOOK: Eat, Drink, and be Mindful: How to End Your Struggle with Mindless Eating and Start Savoring Food with Intention and Joy by Susan Albers
BOOK: Eating in the Light of the Moon: How Women Can Transform Their Relationship with Food Through Myths, Metaphors, and Storytelling by Anita Johnston, PhD
BOOK: Eating While Black: Food Shaming and Race in America by Psyche A. Williams-Forson
BOOK: Fat is a Feminist Issue by Susie Orbach
BOOK: Fat Talk: Parenting in the Age of Diet Culture by Virginia Sole-Smith
BOOK: Feeding the Hungry Heart: The Experience of Compulsive Eating by Geneen Roth
WORKBOOK: Why Weight? A Guide to Ending Compulsive Eating by Geneen Roth
BOOK: How to Nourish your Child Through an Eating Disorder: A Simple, Plate-by-Plate Approach to rebuilding a Healthy Relationship with Food by Casey Crosbie, Wendy Sterling, Neville H. Golden
BOOK: How to Raise an Intuitive Eater: Raising the Next Generation with Food and Body Confidence by Summer Brooks and Amee Severson
BOOK: Intuitive Eating by Evelyn Tribole and Elysa Resch
BOOK: Life Without ED: How One Woman Declared Independence from Her Eating Disorder and How You Can Too by Jenni Schaefer
BOOK: Living in Your Body and Other Things You Hate: How to Let Go of Your Struggle with Body Image Using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy by Emily K. Sandoz and Troy DuFrene
BOOK: Mothers, Daughters, and Body Image: Learning to Love Ourselves as We Are by Hillary L. McBride and Ramani S. Durvasula
BOOK: Reclaiming Body Trust: A Path to Healing and Liberation by Hilary Kinavey and Dana Sturtevant
BOOK: Sick Enough: A Guide to the Medical Complications of Eating Disorders by Jennifer L. Gaudiani
BOOK: Take the Fight Out of Food: How to Prevent and Solve Your Child’s Eating Problems by Donna Fish
BOOK: The Body is Not an Apology by Sonya Renee Taylor
BOOK: The Craggy Hole in My Heart and the Cat Who Fixed It by Geneen Roth
BOOK: The Inside Scoop on Eating Disorder Recovery by Colleen Reichmann, and Jennifer Rollin
BOOK: This Messy Magnificent Life: A Field Guide by Geneen Roth
BOOK: What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Fat by Aubrey Gordon
BOOK: When Women Stop Hating Their Bodies by Carol H. Munter & Jane R. Hirschman
BOOK: When You Eat at the Refrigerator, Pull Up a Chair by Geneen Roth
BOOK: When Your Teen Has an Eating Disorder: Practical Strategies to Help Your Teen Recover from Anorexia, Bulimia, and Binge Eating by Lauren Muhlheim and Laura Collins Lyster-Mensh
BOOK: Come As You Are by Emily Nagoski
PODCAST: Food Psych by Christy Harrison
PODCAST: Maintenance Phase by Aubrey Gordon & Michael Hobbes
PODCAST: Millennial Body Image Project (formerly whole-hearted eating) by Cristina Hoyt and Dana Monsees
PODCAST: Find Your Food Voice (formerly Love, Food) by Julie Duffy Dillon
Trauma
BOOK: 8 Keys to Trauma Recovery: Take Charge Strategies to Empower Your Healing by Babette Rothschild
BOOK: Healing the Divided Self by Maggie Phillips & Claire Frederick
BOOK: The Body Remembers: The Psychophysiology of Trauma and Trauma Treatment by Babette Rothschild
BOOK: The Courage to Heal by Ellen Bass & Laura Davis
BOOK: The Body Keeps the Score by Bessell Van Der Kolk
Relationships
BOOK: Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment & How it Can Help You Find—and keep—Love by Amir Levine
BOOK: Power of Attachment By Diane Poole Heller
BOOK: The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work by John Gottman and Nan Silver
BOOK: Wanting Sex Again by Laurie Watson
BOOK: Your Brain on Love: The Neurobiology of Healthy Relationships by Stan Tatkin
BOOK: Love 2.0: Creating Happiness and Health in Moments of Connection by Barbara Fredrickson
PODCAST: Foreplay Radio by Dr. Laurie Watson & George Faller
Addiction
BOOK: Beautiful Boy by David Sheff
BOOK: Darkness Visible by William Styron
PODCAST: Sober Cast
General
BOOK: Adult Children of Immature Parents by Lindsay C. Gibson
BOOK: All About Love by Bell Hooks
BOOK: Broken Open – How Difficult Times Can Help Us Grow by Elizabeth Lesser
BOOK: Harold and the Purple Crayon by Crokett Johnson
BOOK: How to Keep House While Drowning by KC Davis
BOOK: I thought it was just me (but it isn’t) by Brené Brown
BOOK: No Bad Parts by Richard Schwartz
BOOK: Peace is Every Step by Thich Nhat Hanh
BOOK: Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women’s Anger by Soraya Chemaly
BOOK: The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron
BOOK: The Happiness Trap by Russ Harris
BOOK: The Woman’s Comfort Book by Jennifer Louden
BOOK: What You Feel You Can Heal by John Gray
BOOK: Positivity: Top-Notch Research Reveals the 3-to-1 Ratio That Will Change Your Life By Barbara Fredrickson
TALKS & TRAININGS: Tara Brach
TED TALK: The Power of Vulnerability by Brené Brown
Parenting
BOOK: Good Inside by Dr. Becky Kennedy
Neurodiversity
BOOK: Self-Care for Autistic People by Dr. Megan Anna Neff