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Books We Cherish
Unlearning White Supremacy Culture
The new Jim Crow: Mass incarceration in the age of colorblindness by Michelle Alexander (2012)
Me and white Supremacy by Layla Saad (2020)
Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia by Sabrina Strings (2019)
Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons by Alexis Pauline Gumbs
Sister Outsider: Essays & Speeches by Audre Lorde
The Cult of Thinness by Sharlene Nagy Hesse-Biber
Body Liberation & HAES®
The Body is Not An Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love by Sonia Renee-Taylor (2018)
What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat by Aubrey Gordon (2020)
Fat: The Owner’s Manual by Ragen Chastain
The Wellness Trap: Break Free from Diet Culture, Disinformation, and Dubious Diagnosis, and Find Your True Wellbeing by Christy Harrison
Anti-Diet by Christy Harrison (2019)
Happy Fat by Sofie Hagen
The Wisdom of Your Body by Hillary McBride
Tiny Beautiful Things by Cheryl Strayed
The Misfit’s Manifesto by Lidia Yuknavitch
Nejma by Nayyirah Waheed
Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good by adrienne maree brown
Decolonizing Wellness: A QTBIPOC-Centered Guide to Escape the Diet Trap, Heal your Self Image, and Achieve Body Liberation by Dalia Kinsey
Nothing is Okay by Rachel Wiley
Shrill by Lindy West
Landwhale: On Turning Insults Into Nicknames, Why Body Image Is Hard, and How Diets Can Kiss My Ass by Jes Baker
Things No One Will Tell Fat Girls: A Handbook for Unapologetic Living by Jes Baker
Fierce Fatty: Love Your Body and Live Like The Queen You Already Are by Victoria Welsby
LGBTQIA+
Trans Bodies, Trans Selves: A Resource by and for Transgender Communities by Laura Erickson-Schroth (2022)
Starving in Search of Me: A Coming-Of-Age Story of Overcoming an Eating Disorder and Finding Self-Acceptance by Marissa Larocca (2018)
Fat and Queer: An Anthology of Queer and Trans Bodies and Lives edited by Miguel M. Morales, Bruce Owens Grimm, Tiff Joshua, and TJ Ferentini (2021)
Queer Attachment: An Anti-Oppression Toolkit for Relational Healing by Leah Jo Carnine and Fizz Perkal
The Queer and Transgender Resilience Workbook: Skills for Navigating Sexual Orientation and Gender Expression by Anneliese Singh
The Transgender Child: A Handbook for Families and Professionals by Stephanie Brill, Rachel Pepper
The Transgender Teen: A Handbook for Parents and Professionals Supporting Transgender and Non-Binary Teens By Stephanie Brill and Lisa Kenney
Eating Disorder Recovery
8 Keys to Recovery from an Eating Disorder: Effective Strategies from Therapeutic Practice and Personal Experience by Carolyn Costin and Gwen Schubert Grabb (2011)
Beyond a shadow of a diet: The comprehensive guide to treating binge eating disorder, compulsive eating, and emotional overeating by Matz and Frankel
Sick Enough: A Guide to the Medical Complications of Eating Disorders by Gaudiani (2018)
Intuitive eating: An anti-diet revolutionary approach by Tribole and Resch (2020)
Trauma-informed approaches to eating disorders by Seubert and Virdi
The Recovery Mama Guide to ED Recovery in Pregnancy and Postpartum
Healing-Centered Care
Therapeutic presence: A mindful approach to effective therapy by Geller, S. M. & Greenburg, L. S. (2012)
Trauma stewardship: An everyday guide to caring for self while caring for others by Lipsky, L. v. D., & Burk, C. (2009)
Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma by Peter Levine (1997)
The body keeps the score: Brain, mind, and body in the healing of trauma by Bessel van der Kolk (2014)
Neurodiversity
Parenting
How to Talk so Teens will Listen, and How to Listen so Teens with Talk Note: there are few diet culture references in this book (for example, the phrase "junk food" is used).
Good Inside: A Guide to Becoming the Parent You Want to Be by Dr. Becky Kennedy
Workbooks
Positive Body Image Workbook: A Clinical and Self-Improvement Guide
The Body Image Workbook: An Eight-Step Program for Learning to Like Your Looks
The Emotional Eating, Chronic Dieting, Binge Eating & Body Image Workbook
Body Kindness: Transform Your Health from the Inside Out--and Never Say Diet Again
Research Articles of Note
Bias & Intersectionality
Weight science: Evaluating the evidence for a paradigm shift. By Bacon and Aphramor (2011)
The epidemiology of overweight and obesity: Public health crisis or moral panic by Campos, P., Saguy, A., Ernsberger, P., Oliver, E., & Gaesser, G. (2006)
Addressing weight bias in medicine By Harvard Health Publishing
Racial Discrimination is Associated with Binge-Eating Disorder in Early Adolescents: A Cross-Sectional Analysis by Raney JH, Al-Shoaibi AA, Shao IY, Ganson KT, Testa A, Jackson DB, He J, Glidden DV, Nagata JM.
Intersectionality's Definitional Dilemmas by Collins, P. (2015)
Beyond a trauma-informed approach and towards shame-sensitive practice by Dolezal, L. & Gibson, M. (2022)
The Urgency of Intersectionality TED Talk Series by Crenshaw, K. (2016)
More than an outcome: a person-centered, ecological framework for eating disorder recovery by Kenny, T. & Lewis, S. (2023)
Body Image & Dysmorphia
Body functionality: A review of the literature by Alleva, J. M., & Tylka, T. L.
Towards a Comprehensive Understanding of Body Image: Integrating Positive Body Image, Embodiment and Self-Compassion by Burychka, D., Miragall, M., & Baños, R. M.
Body Image: A Handbook of Science, Practice, and Prevention by Cash, T. F., & Smolak, L. (Eds.)
Body Image: Understanding Body Dissatisfaction in Men, Women and Children by Sarah Grogan
Self-weighing in adolescents: helpful or harmful? Longitudinal associations with body weight changes and disordered eating by Neumark-Sztainer, D., van den Berg, P., Hannan, P. J., & Story, M.
Compulsive Exercise
No pain, no gains: Conformity to masculine norms, body dissatisfaction, and exercise dependence by Dawson and Hammer (2020)
Daily practices for mindful exercise by Calogero and Pedrotty (2007) - found on pages 141-160 of the handbook of low-cost approaches to promote physical and mental health: theory, research, and practice by L’Abate
Compulsive exercise: links, risks and challenges faced by Lichtenstein, M., Hinze, C., Emborg, B., Thomsen, F., & Hemmingsen, S. (2017)
Running on empty - a nationwide large-scale examination of compulsive exercise in eating disorders by Monell, E., Levallius, J., Mantilla, E., & Birgegard, A. (2018)
Medical and physiological complications of exercise for individuals with an eating disorder: A narrative review by Quesnel, D., Cooper, M., Fernandez-del-Valle, M., Reilly, A., & Calogero, R. (2023)
Recovery & Relapse Prevention
Time Course of Relapse Following Acute Treatment for Anorexia Nervosa by Walsh BT, Xu T, Wang Y, Attia E, Kaplan AS.
Eating disorder outcomes: findings from a rapid review of over a decade of research by Miskovic-Wheatley, J., Bryant, E., Ong, S.H. et al.
Recovered Professionals Exploring Eating Disorder Recovery: A Qualitative Investigation of Meaning by Bowlby CG, Anderson TL, Lewis Hall ME, Willingham MM
Externalizing your eating disorder: a qualitative interview study by Voswinkel, M.M., Rijkers, C., van Delden, J.J.M. et al.
Intuitive Eating
Intuitive Eating in the Treatment of Eating Disorders: The Journey of Attunement (pages 11-14) by Evelyn Tribole, MS, RD 2010
Is intuitive eating a privileged approach? Cross-sectional and longitudinal associations between food insecurity and intuitive eating by Burnette, B., Hazard, V., Larson, N., Hahn, S., Eisenberg, M., & Neumark-Sztainer, D. (2023)
Challenges and opportunities for conceptualizing intuitive eating in autistic people by Longhurst and Burnette (2023)
Is intuitive eating an effective approach for eating disorders? by Beery, H., Snell, M., Kumar, S., & Waller, S. (2023)
The attuned representation model for the primary prevention of eating disorders: an overview for school psychologists by Cook-Cottone (2006)
Nutrition Therapy
Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics: Revised 2020 Standards of Practice and Standards of Professional Performance for Registered Dietitian Nutritionists (Competent, Proficient, and Expert) in Eating Disorders by Hackert AN, Kniskern MA, Beasley TM
A review of treatment manuals for adults with an eating disorder: nutrition content and consistency with current dietetic evidence by McMaster C. et al.
Beyond Refeeding: The Effect of Including a Dietitian in Eating Disorder Treatment. A Systematic Review by Yang Y, Conti J, McMaster CM, Hay P
Recovered eating disorder therapists using their experiential knowledge in therapy: A qualitative examination of the therapists’ and the patients’ view by de Vos JA, Netten C, Noordenbos G.
Refeeding syndrome as treatment complication of anorexia nervosa by Skowrońska A, Sójta K, Strzelecki D
Anorexia Nervosa-What Has Changed in the State of Knowledge about Nutritional Rehabilitation for Patients over the Past 10 Years? A Review of Literature by Jowik K, Tyszkiewicz-Nwafor M, Słopień A.
Therapeutic Presence
The centrality of presence and the therapeutic relationship in eating disorders within Trauma-informed approaches to eating disorders by A. Seubert & P. Virdi (Eds.)
Recovered eating disorder therapists using their experiential knowledge in therapy: A qualitative examination of the therapists’ and the patients’ view by de Vos, J. A., Netten, C., & Noordenbos, G.
Therapeutic Presence: A Mindful Approach to Effective Therapy by Geller, S. M. & Greenburg, L. S.
Evidence-Based Practice in ED Care
Obsessions are strongly related to eating disorder symptoms in anorexia nervosa and atypical anorexia nervosa by Levinson CA, Brosof LC, Ram SS, Pruitt A, Russell S, Lenze EJ.
A novel outpatient treatment model for patients with severe and enduring anorexia nervosa: an observational study of patient characteristics, treatment goals, and treatment course by Ålgars M, Oshukova S, Suokas J.
Beyond generalized anxiety: the association of anxiety sensitivity with disordered eating by Bazo Perez, M., Hayes, T.B. & Frazier, L.D.
More than an outcome: a person-centered, ecological framework for eating disorder recovery by Kenny, T.E., Lewis, S.P.
Increased rates of eating disorders and their symptoms in women with major depressive disorder and anxiety disorders by Garcia S. et al.
Depression, Anxiety and Eating Disorder-Related Impairment: Moderators in Female Adolescents and Young Adults by Sander J, Moessner M, Bauer S.
Efficacy of emotion-focused therapy in the treatment of eating disorders: A systematic review by Osoro, A., Villalobos, D., & Tamayo, J. (2022)
Psychotherapies for eating disorders: findings from a rapid review by Russell, H., Aouad, P., Le, A., Marks, P., Maloney, D., National Eating Disorder Research Consortium, Touyz, S., & Maguire, S. (2023)
Clinical stance in the treatment of chronic eating disorders by Geller, J., Williams, K., Srikameswaran, S. (2001)
Harm Reduction in ED Care
Clinical stance in the treatment of chronic eating disorders by Geller, J. & Williams, K.
Setting the eating disorder aside: an alternative model of care by Williams, K. D., Dobney, T., Geller, J
Trauma-Informed Treatment in ED Care
Trauma-Informed Approaches to Eating Disorders by A. Seubert & P. Virdi
Externalizing your eating disorder: a qualitative interview study by Voswinkel, M., Rijkers, C., Delden, J., & Elburg, A. (2021)
Adaptive Information Processing Theory: Origins, Principles, Applications, and Evidence by Margaret Duval Hill (2019)
Blogs/ Articles
Truths about health and fat people: What I wish I said on The Doctors by Ragen Chastain (2021)
Things the Diet Industry Doesn’t Tell You – Expand the Curve by Ragen Chastain (January 2022)
When someone says “I just want to get back to the weight I was when I felt best.” by Ragen Chastain (February 2022)
How gym culture fuels eating disorders and disordered eating by Konstantinovsky (January 2023)
Dear Fat, Black Girls Who Were Not Spared from Diet Culture – I Understand by Jess Sims
Reflections from a Medical Trauma Therapist: New Health At Every Size® (HAES) Principles and Framework of Care by Chelsea Kramer
Podcasts
Unlearning Bias & White Supremacy
Episode 33 - Dismantling fatphobia with Ragen Chastain In Recovery Bites
Making it Awkward by Jessica Wilson
Rethinking Wellness by Christy Harrison, MPH, RD, CEDS
Harm reduction in EDs with Gloria Lucas (No. 36) on the Lovely Becoming Podcast
Body Liberation/HAES®
Belly Love with Rachel Cole
She’s All Fat: A Fat Positive Podcast with Sophie Carter-Kahn
The Lovely Becoming with Mimi Cole
Body Liberation for All with Dalia Kinsey
Men Unscripted with Aaron Flores
Neurodiversity
Neurodivergence, “Picky Eating” and ARFID with Naureen Hunani, RD on Making it Awkward
What Parents Need to Know about Kids and ARFID with Kevin Jarvis on Can I Have Another Snack
ARFID, Eating Grief, & Neurodiversity With Lauren Sharifi on Dr. Marianne-Land:
An Eating Disorder Recovery Podcast (July 2, 2024)
Trauma-Informed Treatment in ED Care
EMDR for Disordered Eating on Zero Disturbance with Kambria Evans
ED Recovery
Food Psych Christy Harrison, MPH, RD, CEDS
Recovery Bites by Karen Lewis, MA, LMFT, CEDS
Mental Note Podcast (by Pathlight/ERC)
Don’t Salt My Game by Laura Thomas, PhD
Decolonising Fitness by Ilya Parker
When Bulking Up Becomes a Problem
Intuitive Eating
Can I Have Another Snack? With Laura Thomas, PhD, RNutr
This is Not About your Body with Jessi Kneeland
The Full Plate Podcast with Abbie Attwood
Find Your Food Voice with Julie Duffy Dillon, RDN
Let Us Eat Cake with Ali Eberhardt & Hannah Robinson
Mom Genes with Rachel Coleman & Tina LaBoy
Digital Diabetes with Wendy Lopez & Jessica Jones
Diet Culture Rebel Podcast with Bonnie Roney
Websites
Weight and Healthcare Substack by Ragen Chastain
Dances with Fat by Ragen Chastain
Your Fat Friend by Aubrey Gordon
Social Media
Ryan Nicole on Instagram
Ryan Sheldon on Instagram
300 Pounds & Running on Facebook
In My Language on Youtube
Leslie Jordan on Instagram
Dr. Kera Nyemb-Diop on Instagram
Regan Chastain on Instagram
ARFIDAwareness on Instagram
ARFID.Dietician on Instagram
MyARFIDLife on Instagram
KevinDoesARFID on Instagram
Aaron Flores on Instagram
William Hornby on Instagram
Dr. Joshua Wolrich on Instagram
Mallory Page on Instagram
Men Get Eating Disorders Too on Youtube
In A World That Is Wrong About Us on Youtube
My Battle with Anorexia on Youtube
Muscle Dysmorphia: The Male Eating Disorder on Youtube
Why I’m Done Trying to Be Man Enough on Youtube
Eating disorder harm reduction 101: Turning the treatment industry on its head by Gloria Lucas on Youtube
The Plate-by-Plate Approach on Instagram
Apps
Recovery Record - Food, mood, and thought digital diary/log for patients to use in ED treatment for management and accountability. Clinicians are able to connect to patients, view logs, and communicate over the app.
Finch - An interactive app that encourages self-care and relaxation with a digital companion/pet. From the Apple App Store - “Take care of your pet by taking care of yourself!”
How We Feel - An app to help navigate emotions. From the Apple App Store - “... a science-based mood journal designed to help you achieve a more balanced sense of well-being”
Daylio - An app for tracking mood and journaling that does not require writing any lines but instead shows how activities and habits affect mood and strategies for setting goals.
Resources We Stand By
Medical Fact Sheet
for medical providers who aren’t ED-informed
from Central Texas Eating Disorder Specialists (CTEDS)
This free, downloadable, fillable PDF was created to assist medical providers in treating their patients with eating disorders. This document is widely available to any clinicians who hope to help advocate for their clients in the doctor’s office.
It includes essential facts about eating disorders that medical providers often do not know and need to know. The ED Fact sheet also includes an area for clients or their clinician(s) to provide specifics about their unique ED presentation and any relevant info.