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

Grief

BOOK: When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi

BOOK: How We Live is How We Die by Pema Chodron

Neurodiversity

BOOK: Self-Care for Autistic People by Dr. Megan Anna Neff