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Recommended Reading
Adults
- Anti-Diet: Reclaim your Time, Money, Well-Being, and Happiness Through Intuitive Eating – Christy Harrison, MPH, RD
- Belly of the Beast – Da’Shaun L. Harrison
- The Body is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love – Sonya Renee Taylor
- Bodies out of Bounds – Jana Evans Braziel and Kathleen LeBesco
- Body Kindness – Rebecca Scritchfield, RDN
- Eating in the Light of the Moon: How Women Can Transform Their Relationships with Food Through Myths, Metaphor, and Storytelling – Anita Johnston, PhD
- Fearing the Black Body: The Radical Origins of Fat Phobia – Sabrina Strings
- Framing Fat – Samantha Kwan and Jennifer Graves
- The F*ck It Diet: Eating Should be Easy – Caroline Dooner
- Gentle Nutrition: A Non-Diet Approach to Healthy Eating – Rachael Hartley, RD, LD
- Goodbye Ed, Hello Me: Recover from Your Eating Disorder and Fall in Love with Life (10th anniversary edition) – Jenni Schaefer
- Health at Every Size [Second Edition] – Lindo Bacon, PhD
- How to Nourish Yourself Through an Eating Disorder – Wendy Sterling, MS, RD, CED-S, CSSD and Casey Crosbie, RD, CEDS-S
- I’m Glad My Mom Died – Jennette McCurdy
- Intuitive Eating: A Revolutionary Anti-Diet Approach (4th edition) – Evelyn Tribole, MS, RDN, CEDRD-S and Elyse Resch, MS, RDN, CEDRD-S, FAND
- Life Without Ed: How One Woman Declared Independence from Her Eating Disorder and How You Can Too (2nd edition) – Jennie Schaefer
- Lost and Lived In – Michelle Ray Prellz
- Making Peace With Your Plate: Eating Disorder Recovery (2nd edition)– Robyn Cruze and Espra Andrus, LCSW
- Nourish: How to Heal Your Relationship with Food, Body, and Self – Heidi Schauster, MS, RDN, CEDRD-S
- The Picky Eater’s Recovery Book: Overcoming Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder – Jennifer J. Thomas, Kendra R. Becker, and Kamryn T. Eddy
- Reclaiming Body Trust: Break Free from a Culture of Body Perfection, Disordered Eating, & Other Traumas – Hilary Kinavey, MS., LPC, and Dana Sturtevant, MS, RD
- Running in Silence – Rachael Steil
- Starving for Survival: One Man’s Journey with Orthorexia – Jason Wood
- The Wellness Trap – Christy Harrison, MPH, RD
- What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Fat – Aubrey Gordon
- You Have the Right to Remain Fat – Virgie Tovar
- “You Just Need to Lose Weight” and 19 Other Myths About Fat People – Aubrey Gordon
Recovery workbooks
- 8 Keys to Recovery from an Eating Disorder – Carolyn Costin MA, MEd, MFT & Gwen Schubert Grabb, LMFT, CEDS-S
- The Body Image Workbook (2nd edition) – Thomas F. Cash Ph.D.
- The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook for Bulimia: Using DBT to Break the Cycle and Regain Control of Your Life – Ellen Astrachan-Fletcher, Ph.D. and Michael Maslar Psy.D.
- The Food & Feelings Workbook – Karen R. Koenig, LCSW, M.Ed
- The Intuitive Eating Workbook: Ten Principles for Nourishing a Healthy Relationship with Food – Evelyn Tribole, MS, RDN, CEDRD-S and Elyse Resch MS, RDN, CEDRD-S, FAND
- The Radically Open DBT Workbook for Eating Disorders: From Overcontrol and Loneliness to Recovery and Connection – Karyn D. Hall PhD, Ellen Astrachan-Fletcher PhD, Mima Simic MD
Kids and teens
For guardians and caregivers
- ARFID Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder: A Guide for Parents and Carers – Rachel Bryant-Waugh
- Diet-Proof Your Daughter: A Mother’s Guide to Raising Girls Who Have Happy, Healthy Relationships with Food and Body – Amelia Sherry, RDN, CDCES
- Fat Talk: Parenting in the Age of Diet Culture – Virgina Sole-Smith
- Food Chaining: The Proven 6-Step Plan to Stop Picky Eating, Solve Feeding Problems, and Expand Your Child’s Diet – Cheryl Fraker, CCC-SLP, CLC, Mark Fishbein, MD, Sibyl Cox, RD, LD, CLC & Laura Walbert, CCC-SLP, CLC
- Helping Your Child with Extreme Picky Eating – Katja Rowell. MD & Jenny McGlothlin, MS, SLP
- Help Your Teenager Beat an Eating Disorder – James Lock, MD, PhD and Daniel Le Grange, PhD
- How to Nourish Your Child Through an Eating Disorder – Casey Crosbie, RD, CSSD and Wendy Sterling, MS, RD, CSSD
- How to Raise an Intuitive Eater – Sumner Brooks, MPH,RDN & Amee Severson, MPP-D, RDN
- Loving Someone with an Eating Disorder – Dana Harron, PsyD
- Surviving an Eating Disorder: Strategies for Family and Friends (4th edition) – Michele Siegel, PhD, Judith Brisman, PhD, CEDS, and Margot Weinshel, LCSW