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