Heal Your Relationship with Food Through Reading

I’m a firm believer that books are one of the greatest things on this earth. They provide entertainment, information and education, inspire curiosity and most importantly, we can start to see the world through others experiences. Here is a list of books that may be helpful if you are working on improving your relationship with food, movement, and your body. To note, not all of these books will be a good fit for you. If you have questions about specific recommendations, please ask me. Happy reading!

For Parents & Caregivers:

• 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 Amee Severson and Sumner Brooks

• Celebrate Your Body (and Its Changes, Too!): The Ultimate Puberty Book for Girls by Sonya Renee Taylor and Bianca Laureano

• 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

Fat Activism:

• Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman by Lindy West

• Things No One Will Tell Fat Girls: A Handbook for Unapologetic Living by Jes Baker

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

• You Just Need to Lose Weight": And 19 Other Myths About Fat People by Aubrey Gordon

• Fat Activism a Radical Social Movement by Charlotte Cooper

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

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

• Unashamed: Musings of a Fat, Black Muslim by Leah Vernon

• Happy Fat by Sofie Hagen

• The Not So Subtle Art of Being A Fat Girl: Loving the Skin You’re In By Tess Holiday

• Lessons from the Fat-o-sphere: Quit Dieting and Declare a Truce with Your Body by Kate Harding and Marianne Kirby

Body Image / Body Liberation:

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

• You Have the Right to Remain Fat by Virgie Tovar

• Body Positive Power: How to stop dieting, make peace with your body and live by Megan Jayne Crabbe

• Reclaiming Body Trust By Hilary Kinavey and Dana Sturtevant

• The Art of Body Acceptance: Strengthen Your Relationship with Yourself Through Therapeutic Creative Exercises by Ashlee Bennett

• The Eating Instinct: Food Culture, Body Image, and Guilt in America by Virginia Sole-Smith

• The Wellness Trap: Break Free from Diet Culture, Disinformation, and Dubious Diagnoses, and Find Your True Well-Being by Christy Harrison

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

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

• More Than A Body: Your Body Is an Instrument, Not an Ornament by Lexie Kite and Lindsay Kite

• Self-Compassion By Kristin Neff

• Fat and Queer: An Anthology of Queer and Trans Bodies and Lives by Miguel Morales, Bruce Owens Grimm, Tiff Joshua and TJ Ferentini

• Being In Your Body (Guided Journal) A Journal For Self Love and Body Positivity by Fariha Roisin

Eating Disorder Recovery and Intuitive Eating:

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

• How to Nourish Yourself Through an Eating Disorder: Recovery for Adults with the Plate-by-Plate Approach® by Casey Crosbie and Wendy Sterling

• Intuitive Eating: A Revolutionary Program that Works, 4th Ed. by Evelyn Tribole and Elyse Resch

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

• Fat and Fertile: How to get pregnant in a bigger body by Nicola Salmon

• Just Eat It: How intuitive eating can help you get your shit together around food by Laura Thomas, PhD

• Unapologetic Eating by Alissa Rumsey

• 8 Keys To Recovery From An Eating Disorder Workbook by Carolyn Costin and Gwen Schubert Grabb

• Befriending Your Body by Ann Saffi Biasetti

• The Wisdom of your Body by Hillary McBride

• Eating In The Light Of The Moon by Anita Johnston

• The Inside Scoop on Eating Disorder Recovery: Advice from Two Therapists Who Have Been There by Colleen Reichmann and Jennifer Rollin

• The Intuitive Eating Workbook: Ten Principles for Nourishing a Healthy Relationship with Food by Evelyn Tribole & Elyse Resch

Movement/Physical Activity:

• Every Body Yoga by Jessamyn Stanley

• Train Happy: An Intuitive Exercise Plan for Every Body by Tally Rye

• Yoga for Everyone: 50 Poses for Every Type of Body by Dianne Bondy

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

Cooking/Food:

• Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking by Samin Nosrat and Wendy Macnaughton

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

This is by no means an exhaustive list. There are so many resources out there. Any others I should add? Email me!