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Books We Love

Looking for resources to support your healing journey? We’ve gathered a collection of books that offer insight, encouragement, and practical tools for navigating eating disorder recovery, trauma, OCD, and other mental health challenges.

Body Liberation and
HAES®

Anti-Diet

by Christy Harrison

The Body is Not An Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love

by Sonia Renee-Taylor

Decolonizing Wellness: A QTBIPOC-Centered Guide to Escape the Diet Trap, Heal your Self Image, and Achieve Body Liberation

by Dalia Kinsey

Fat: The Owner’s Manual

by Ragen Chastain

Fierce Fatty: Love Your Body and Live Like The Queen You Already Are

by Victoria Welsby

Happy Fat

by Sofie Hagen

The Journal of Radical Permission

By Adrienne Maree Brown and Sonya Renee-Taylor

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

by Jes Baker

The Misfit’s Manifesto

by Lidia Yuknavitch

Nejma

by Nayyirah Waheed

Nothing is Okay

by Rachel Wiley

Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good

by Adrienne Maree Brown

Things No One Will Tell Fat Girls: A Handbook for Unapologetic Living

by Jes Baker

Tiny Beautiful Things

by Cheryl Strayed

The Wellness Trap: Break Free from Diet Culture, Disinformation, and Dubious Diagnosis, and Find Your True Wellbeing

by Christy Harrison

The Wisdom of Your Body

by Hillary McBride

What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat

by Aubrey Gordon

Eating Disorder Recovery

The Emotional Eating, Chronic Dieting, Binge Eating & Body Image Workbook

by Judith Matz, Amy Pershing, and Christy Harrison

Intuitive eating: An anti-diet revolutionary approach

by Elyse Resch and Evelyn Tribole

The Recovery Mama Guide to ED Recovery in Pregnancy and Postpartum

by Linda Shanti McCabe

Sick Enough: A Guide to the Medical Complications of Eating Disorders

by Dr. Jennifer Guadiani

Trauma-informed approaches to eating disorders

by Andrew Seubert and Pam Virdi

8 Keys to Recovery from an Eating Disorder: Effective Strategies from Therapeutic Practice and Personal Experience

by Carolyn Costin and Gwen Schubert Grabb

Beyond a shadow of a diet: The comprehensive guide to treating binge eating disorder, compulsive eating, and emotional overeating

by Matz and Frankel

Binge Eating Disorder: The Journey to Recovery and Beyond

by Amy Pershing

Parenting and ED
Recovery

Good Inside: A Guide to Becoming the Parent You Want to Be

by Dr. Becky Kennedy

How to Talk so Teens will Listen, and How to Listen so Teens with Talk

by Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish

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 and Wendy Sterling

How to Raise an Intuitive Eater

by Sumner Brook and Amee Severson

Mothers, Daughters, and Body Image

by Hilary McBride and Ramani Durvasula

Fat Talk: Parenting in the Age of Diet Culture

by Virginia Sole-Smith

Trauma and Healing

The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

by Bessel van der Kolk

Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving

by Pete Walker

My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies

by Resamaa Menakem

Healing the Shame that Binds You

by John Bradshaw

No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model

by Richard Schwartz

The Tao of Fully Feeling: Harvesting Forgiveness out of Blame

by Pete Walker

Trauma Stewardship: An Everyday Guide to Caring for Self While Caring for Others

by Laura van Dernoot Lipsky and Connie Burk

Understanding and Treating Chronic ShameHealing Right Brain Relational Trauma

by Patricia DeYoung

Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma

by Peter Levine

OCD

Breaking Free of Child Anxiety & OCD: A Scientifically Proven Program for Parents

by Eli Lebowitz

Freedom from Obsessive Compulsive Disorder: A Personalized Recovery Program for Living with Uncertainty

by Jonathan Grayson

The Mindfulness Workbook for OCD: A Guide to Overcoming Obsessions and Compulsions Using Mindfulness and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

by Jon Hershfield and Tom Corboy

Obsessed: A Memoir of My Life with OCD

by Allison Britz

Overcoming Harm OCD: Mindfulness and CBT Tools for Coping with Unwanted Violent Thoughts

by Jon Hershfield

Relationship OCD: A CBT-Based Guide to Move Beyond Obsessive Doubt, Anxiety, and Fear of Commitment in Romantic Relationships

by Sheva Rajaee

The Self-Compassion Workbook for OCD: Lean into Your Fear, Manage Difficult Emotions, and Focus On Recovery

by Kimberley Quinlan

When a Family Member Has OCD: Mindfulness and Cognitive Behavioral Skills to Help Families Affected by Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

by Jon Hershfield

Body Dysmorphia

The Adonis Complex: How to Identify, Treat and Prevent Body Obsession in Men and Boys: The Secret Crisis of Male Body Obsession

by Jarrison Pope, Katharine Phillips, and Roberto Olivardia

The BDD Workbook: Overcome Body Dysmorphic Disorder and End Body Image Obsessions

by James Claiborn and Cherlene Pedrick

The Broken Mirror: Understanding and Treating Body Dysmorphic Disorder

by Katharine Phillips

Feeling Good about the Way You Look: A Program for Overcoming Body Image Problems

by Sabine Wilhelm

Overcoming Body Image Problems Including Body Dysmorphic Disorder: A Self-help Guide Using Cognitive Behavioral Techniques

by David Veale, Rob Willson, and Alex Clarke

The Parents’ Guide to Body Dysmorphic Disorder: How to Support Your Child, Teen or Young Adult

by Nicole Schnackenberg, Bendetta Monzani, and Amita Jassi

Shattered Image: My Triumph Over Body Dysmorphic Disorder

Understanding Body Dysmorphic Disorder: An Essential Guide

by Katharine Phillips

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