Books To Help You in Your Eating Disorder, Disordered Eating and Body Image Healing Journey

The caring anti-diet dietitians at Bravespace Nutrition want you to feel as supported as possible in your healing journey from eating disorders and disordered eating. Here is a list of books they recommend:

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Intuitive Eating
Intuitive Eating

By Evelyn Tribole and Elyse Resch

Deconstructing the Fitness-Industrial Complex: How to Resist, Disrupt, and Reclaim What It Means to Be Fit in American Culture
Deconstructing the Fitness-Industrial Complex: How to Resist, Disrupt, and Reclaim What It Means to Be Fit in American Culture
The Intuitive Eating Workbook: Ten Principles for Nourishing a Healthy Relationship with Food
The Intuitive Eating Workbook: Ten Principles for Nourishing a Healthy Relationship with Food

By Evelyn Tribole, Elyse Resch, and Tracy Tylka

The Body Is Not An Apology
The Body Is Not An Apology

By Sonya Renee Taylor

Anti-Diet: Reclaim Your Time, Money, Well-Being, and Happiness Through Intuitive Eating
Anti-Diet: Reclaim Your Time, Money, Well-Being, and Happiness Through Intuitive Eating

By Christy Harrison, MPH RD

The Gospel of Wellness: Gyms, Gurus, Goop, and the False Promise of Self-Care
The Gospel of Wellness: Gyms, Gurus, Goop, and the False Promise of Self-Care
Pleasure Activism: The Politics Of Feeling Good
Pleasure Activism: The Politics Of Feeling Good

By Adrienne Maree Brown

How to Raise an Intuitive Eater Raising the Next Generation with Food & Body Confidence
How to Raise an Intuitive Eater Raising the Next Generation with Food & Body Confidence

By: Sumner Brooks, Amee Severson, FADA Resch Elyse MS RD

Sick Enough
Sick Enough

By Jennifer L. Gaudiani

Body Respect: What Conventional Health Books Get Wrong, Leave Out, and Just Plain Fail to Understand About Weight
Body Respect: What Conventional Health Books Get Wrong, Leave Out, and Just Plain Fail to Understand About Weight

By Linda Bacon and Lucy Aphramor

The Body Liberation Project: How Understanding Racism and Diet Culture Helps Cultivate Joy and Build Collective Freedom
The Body Liberation Project: How Understanding Racism and Diet Culture Helps Cultivate Joy and Build Collective Freedom
embody: Learning to Love Your Unique Body (and quiet that critical voice!)
embody: Learning to Love Your Unique Body (and quiet that critical voice!)

By Connie Sobczak

Fat Talk: Parenting in the Age of Diet Culture
Fat Talk: Parenting in the Age of Diet Culture
The Wellness Trap: Break Free from Diet Culture, Disinformation, and Dubious Diagnoses, and Find Your True Well-Being
The Wellness Trap: Break Free from Diet Culture, Disinformation, and Dubious Diagnoses, and Find Your True Well-Being
Body Kindness: Transform Your Health from the Inside Out--and Never Say Diet Again
Body Kindness: Transform Your Health from the Inside Out--and Never Say Diet Again

By Rebecca Scritchfield

Body of Truth: How Science, History, and Culture Drive Our Obsession with Weight -- and What We Can Do about It
Body of Truth: How Science, History, and Culture Drive Our Obsession with Weight -- and What We Can Do about It

By Harriet Brown

Life Without Ed: How One Woman Declared Independence from Her Eating Disorder and How You Can Too
Life Without Ed: How One Woman Declared Independence from Her Eating Disorder and How You Can Too

By Jenni Schaefer and Thom Rutledge

Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia
Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia

By Sabrina Strings

The Self-Love Revolution: Radical Body Positivity for Girls of Color
The Self-Love Revolution: Radical Body Positivity for Girls of Color

By Virgie Tovar

You Have the Right to Remain Fat
You Have the Right to Remain Fat

By Virgie Tovar

Landwhale
Landwhale

By Jes Baker

Decolonizing Wellness A QTBIPOC Centered Guide to Escape the Diet Trap Heal Your Self Image & Achieve Body Liberation
Decolonizing Wellness A QTBIPOC Centered Guide to Escape the Diet Trap Heal Your Self Image & Achieve Body Liberation

By: Dalia Kinsey

Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman
Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman

By Lindy West

Nothing Is Okay
Nothing Is Okay

by Rachel Wiley

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

By Carolyn Costin and Gwen Schubert Grabb

Big Girl: How I Gave Up Dieting and Got a Life
Big Girl: How I Gave Up Dieting and Got a Life

By Kelsey Miller

Body Positive Power: Because Life Is Already Happening and You Don't Need Flat Abs to Live It
Body Positive Power: Because Life Is Already Happening and You Don't Need Flat Abs to Live It

By Megan Jayne Crabbe

Every Body Yoga: Let Go of Fear, Get On the Mat, Love Your Body.
Every Body Yoga: Let Go of Fear, Get On the Mat, Love Your Body.

By Jessamyn Stanley

No Period. Now What?: A Guide to Regaining Your Cycles and Improving Your Fertility
No Period. Now What?: A Guide to Regaining Your Cycles and Improving Your Fertility

By Nicola J Rinaldi, Stephanie G Buckler, Lisa Sanfilippo Waddell

Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body

By Roxane Gay