(Some Of) Our Favorite Book Recommendations

Recovering from an eating disorder, healing your relationship with food, or improving your body image can be a challenging journey. While meeting with a dietitian for one-on-one counseling sessions can be helpful, reading books written by like-minded authors on these subjects can be incredibly healing. We’ve collected our favorite book recommendations to share some resources that will assist you on this journey because you are not alone.

Food Peace

• Unapologetic Eating: Make Peace with Food and Transform Your Life by Alissa Rumsey RD

• Anti-Diet: Reclaim Your Time, Money, Well-Being, and Happiness Through Intuitive Eating by Christy Harrison MPH RD

• Intuitive Eating, 4th Edition by Evelyn Tribole, MS, RDN and Elyse Resch, MS, RDN

• The Intuitive Eating Workbook: Ten Principles for Nourishing a Healthy Relationship with Food (A New Harbinger Self-Help Workbook) by Evelyn Tribole and Elyse Resch 

• Gentle Nutrition: A Non-Diet Approach to Healthy Eating by Rachael Hartley

• Big Girl: How I Gave Up Dieting and Got a Life by Kelsey Miller

• The Intuitive Eating Workbook for Teens by Elyse Resch

• Love Your Body by Jessica Sanders and Carol Rossetti

• No Weigh! A Teen’s Guide to Positive Body Image, Food, and Emotional Wisdom by Signe Darpinian, Wendy Sterling, and Shelley Aggarwal 

• You Are Enough: Your Guide to Body Image and Eating Disorder Recovery by Jen Petro-Roy

For Parents

• Fat Talk: Parenting in the Age of Diet Culture by Virginia Sole-Smith 

• How to Raise an Intuitive Eater: Raising the Next Generation with Food and Body Confidence by Sumner Brooks and Amee Severson 

• Body Happy Kids by Molly Frasier

• 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  

• Girls & Sex: Navigating the Complicated New Landscape by Peggy Orenstein

• Helping Your Child with Extreme Picky Eating by Katja Rowell and Jenny McGlothlin

• Raising Body Positive Teens: A Parent’s Guide to Diet-Free Living, Exercise and Body Image by Signe Darpinian, Wendy Sterling, and Shelley Aggarwal 

• Redefining Girly: How Parents Can Fight the Stereotyping and Sexualizing of Girlhood, from Birth to Tween by Melissa Atkins Wardy

• When Your Teen Has an Eating Disorder by Lauren Mulheim, PsyD

Body Image and Body Liberation 

• More than a Body: Your Body Is an Instrument, Not an Ornament  by Lexie Kite & Lindsay Kite

• The Body Is Not an Apology, Second Edition: The Power of Radical Self-Love by Sonya Renee Taylor 

• Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia by Sabrina Strings 

• Your Body Is Not an Apology Workbook: Tools for Living Radical Self-Love by Sonya Renee Taylor

• You Have the Right to Remain Fat by Virgie Tovar

• Reclaiming Body Trust: A Path to Healing & Liberation by Hilary Kinavey and Dana Sturtevant

• Body Kindness: Transform Your Health from the Inside Out--and Never Say Diet Again by Rebecca Scritchfield

• Landwhale: On Turning Insults Into Nicknames, Why Body Image Is Hard, and How Diets Can Kiss My Ass by Jes Baker

• Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay 

• Decolonizing Wellness: A QTBIPOC-Centered Guide to Escape the Diet Trap, Heal Your Self-Image, and Achieve Body Liberation by Dalia Kinsey

• Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness by Da'Shaun L. Harrison

• Don't Let It Get You Down: Essays on Race, Gender, and the Body by Savala Nolan

• You Just Need to Lose Weight”: And 19 Other Myths About Fat People (Myths Made in America) by Aubrey Gordon

• What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat by Aubrey Gordon

• Beyond Beautiful: A Practical Guide to Being Happy, Confident, and You in a Looks-Obsessed World by Anuschka Rees and Saskia Maarleveld

• It's Always Been Ours: Rewriting the Story of Black Women’s Bodies by Jessica Wilson MS RD

Movement

• Fitness for Every Body: Strong, Confident, and Empowered at Any Size by Meg Boggs 

• Fat Girls Hiking: An Inclusive Guide to Getting Outdoors at Any Size Or Ability by Summer Michaud-Skog

Eating Disorders

• Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder by Jennifer J. Thomas

• Sick Enough: A Guide to the Medical Complications of Eating Disorders by Jennifer L. Gaudiani