Intuitive Eating / Disordered Eating 

Books / Workbooks: 
Intuitive Eating by Evelyn Tribole & Elyse Resch

• Walks through the 10 principles of Intuitive Eating - a non-diet approach to having a healthier and more intuitive relationship with food, exercise, and your body. 

The Intuitive Eating Workbook by Evelyn Tribole & Elyse Resch

• A workbook based on Intuitive Eating - a more in-depth dive into each of the 10 principles of Intuitive Eating; includes journaling prompts and exercises. 

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

• A light-hearted memoir on Kelsey’s journey from disordered eating and dieting to intuitive eating and listening to her body. 

Healthy Eating for Life: An Intuitive Eating Workbook to Stop Dieting Forever by Cara Harbstreet

• A workbook to help you improve your relationship with food through saying no to diet culture, tuning in and listening to your body, and eating intuitively. 

Anti-Diet by Christy Harrison

• Explores both the roots and harms of diet culture, and encourages embracing intuitive eating and Health At Every Size as alternative approaches to health. 

Eat Up: Food, Appetite, and Eating What You Want by Ruby Tandoh

• Helps readers to fall back in love with food, through exploring the fun and pleasure of food. 

Nourish: How to Heal Your Relationship with Food, Body, and Self by Heidi Schauster

• Helps to transform your eating from self-control to self-love using a 10-step healing process. Encourages ditching dieting in favor of life-giving healthy habits.  

The Diet Survivor’s Handbook: 60 Lessons in Eating, Acceptance, and Self-Care by Judith Matz and Eileen Frankel

• 60 inspiring lessons to help you transform your relationship with food, your body, and yourself. 

Podcasts:
Nutrition Matters by Paige Smathers
Nourishing Women Podcast by Victoria Myers
RD Real Talk by Heather Caplan
Food Psych by Christy Harrison
The Love, Food Podcast by Julie Duffy Dillon
The Mindful Dietitian by Fiona Sutherland
Rewired: Eating Disorder Recovery w/ Meg and Safia

Blogs:
https://www.thedietitiansisters.com/blog-1
https://www.rachaelhartleynutrition.com/blog
https://alissarumsey.com/blog/
https://www.victoriamyers.net
https://christyharrison.com/blog
https://thewellful.com/read
https://www.thereallife-rd.com
http://immaeatthat.com

Instagram:
@the.dietitian.sisters            @piecebypiecenutrition
@nutritionbygabby            @thefoodfreedomlife
@thereallife_rd            @murraynutrition
@nicolecruzrd            @hgoodrichrd
@dallasnutritionalcounseling        @thewellfull
@weall_eat                @immaeatthat
@alissarumseyrd            @chr1styharrison
@rachaelhartleyrd            @themindfuldietitian
@kristenmurrayrd            @evelyntribole
@annamaire.rd            @sarahbnutrition


HAES / Body Image 

Books / Workbooks:
Health At Every Size: The Surprising Truth About Your Weight by Linda Bacon

• Explores the Health At Every Size framework, which focuses on embracing healthy behavior change at any size, rather than focusing on weight loss. 

Beauty Sick by Renee Engeln

• An in-depth dive into the ways the cultural obsession with appearance harms girls and women. Provides inspiration and solutions to help girls and women embrace their whole selves, claim the futures they deserve, and ultimately change the world. 

Body Kindness by Rebecca Scritchfield

• A practical, inspirational, and visually appealing book helping you learn to love, care for, and connect with yourself. Includes mind and body exercises to help you spiral upwards and journaling prompts to help you identify what you really want and care about. Embraces an intuitive eating and HAES framework. 

Body Respect by Linda Bacon and Lucy Aphramor

• Debunks common myths about weight and weight loss and helps you to cultivate self-care and respect for your body. 

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

• A light-hearted memoir on Kelsey’s journey from disordered eating and dieting to intuitive eating and listening to her body. 

Beautiful You: A Daily Guide to Radical Self-Acceptance by Rosie Molinary

•  A 365-day action plan that empowers women to embrace a healthy self-image, improve self-confidence, break undermining habits of self-criticism, and champion their own emotional and physical wellbeing.

Anti-Diet by Christy Harrison

• Explores both the roots and harms of diet culture, and encourages embracing intuitive eating and Health At Every Size as alternative approaches to health. 

The Body Image Workbook by Thomas Cash

• An 8-step program for improving body image and feeling more confident with the way you look. 

Reclaiming Body Trust by Hillary Kinavey and Dana Sturtevant

• A guide to "liberating" your body

Podcasts:
Nutrition Matters by Paige Smathers
Nourishing Women Podcast by Victoria Myers
RD Real Talk by Heather Caplan
Food Psych by Christy Harrison
The Mindful Dietitian by Fiona Sutherland
The BodyLove Project by Jessi Haggerty

Blogs:
https://christyharrison.com/blog
https://thewellful.com/read
https://beautyredefined.org/blog/
https://www.kristinabruce.com/blog

Instagram:
@the.dietitian.sisters            @piecebypiecenutrition
@nutritionbygabby            @thefoodfreedomlife
@dallasnutritionalcounseling        @murraynutrition
@weall_eat                @hgoodrichrd
@alissarumseyrd            @thewellfull
@rachaelhartleyrd            @immaeatthat
@gofeedyourself_            @beauty_sick
@healingcrayons            @chr1styharrison
@kristenmurrayrd            @themindfuldietitian
@annamaire.rd            @sarahbnutrition
@bodyimage_therapist



Eating Disorders:

Books / Workbooks:
    
8 Keys to Recovery from an Eating Disorder by Caroyln Costin & Gwen Schubert Grabb 

• The 8 keys explore themes such as: patience and motivation, strengthening your healthy self, both the food and non-food aspects to eating disorders, emotions, behavior change, connection, and meaning and purpose. Helpful for anyone struggling with anorexia, bulimia, or binge eating disorder. 

8 Keys to Recovery from an Eating Disorder Workbook by Carolyn Costin & Gwen Schubert Grabb

• Filled with tried and true practical exercises, goal sheets, food journal forms, clinical anecdotes and stories, readers are guided in exploring their thoughts, feelings, and coping strategies while being encouraged to choose how they want to approach the material. 

Life Without Ed by Jenni Schaefer

• Drawing on the author’s personal experiences, this book helps readers to break up with their own eating disorder (“Ed”) once and for all. 

Goodbye Ed, Hello Me by Jenni Schaefer

• The author shows you that being fully recovered is not just about breaking free from destructive behaviors with food and having a healthy relationship with your body; it also means finding joy and peace in your life.

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

• Offers patients, their families, and clinicians a comprehensive, accessible review of the medical issues that arise from eating disorders by bringing relatable case presentations and a scientifically sound, engaging style to the topic. 

Befriending Your Body: A Self-Compassion Approach to Freeing Yourself from Disordered Eating by Ann Biasetti

• A step-by-step holistic approach to eating disorder recovery, using self-compassion and embodiment practices to reduce symptoms, increase body awareness and acceptance, reconnect to others, and step back into an integrated life. Integrates and explores yoga-based movement, body-awareness practices, meditations, and journaling exercises 

Healing Your Hungry Heart by Joanna Poppink 

• A comprehensive and effective recovery program for women with eating disorders, focusing on topics such as early eating disorder warning signs, challenges in recovery, triggers to emotional eating, and the impact on sex life and relationships. 

Binge Eating Disorder: The Journey to Recovery and Beyond by Chevese Turner and Amy Pershing

• Explores BED from the patient’s perspective as well as the roots to BED and components necessary for long-term recovery. This practical roadmap to lasting change is helpful for both patients and clinicians alike. 

Podcasts:
The BodyLove Project by Jessi Haggerty
The Eating Disorder Recovery Podcast by Janean Anderson 
Food Psych by Christy Harrison 

Blogs:
https://marcird.com/blog/
https://www.emilyprogram.com/category/blog/
https://jennischaefer.com/blog/
https://www.angieviets.com/blog
http://www.colleenreichmann.com/blog/

Instagram:
@dallasnutritionalcounseling        @rachaelhartleyrd
@neda                @bodyimage_therapist
@stuff_my_ed_never_says        @jenniferrollin 
@murraynutrition            @theeatingdisorder center
@hgoodrichrd                @beatingeatingdisorders
@immaeatthat            @angie_viets 
@chr1styharrison            @alissarumseyrd



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Do's and Don'ts of Reaching out to a Loved One

1. Speak to the person privately and allow time to talk. 
2. Tell the person you are very concerned about him/her 
3. Calmly tell the person all the specific observations that have aroused your concern. 
4. Allow the person time to respond. Listen carefully and non-judgmentally. 
5. Keep the focus on problems (for example, withdrawing from others). 
6. If the information you receive suggests an eating disorder, share with that person that you: a) think that have a problem with eating (or body image or weight management), b) are concerned about their wellbeing, c) are concerned that the matter needs to be evaluated by someone that understands eating disorders. 
7. Know about some of the resources in your school and your community to which students can be referred. 
8. Tell a nurse, guidance counselor, teacher or coach immediately if the person has problems that scare you, for example, if the person is: a) bingeing and throwing up several times a day, b) passing out or complaining of chest pain, c) complaining of severe stomach ache and.
9. Seek support for yourself as a caregiver 
10. Allow independence and for them to take charge of their life

1. Don't speak to an adult without first speaking privately to the person whom you suspect of having an eating disorder (unless the situation is an emergency). 
2. Don't confront the person with a group of people, all of who are firing concerns and accusations at the person. 
3. Don't threaten or challenge the person. 
4. Don't be judgmental; don't tell the person that what they are doing is sick or crazy or stupid. 
5. Don't give advice about weight loss or exercising or appearance. 
6. Don't diagnose. 
7. Don't get into an argument or battle of wills.
8. Don't promise to keep what you have observed a secret. 
9. Don't try to keep track of what the person is eating or try to force the person to eat or not eat. 
10. Don't let the person monopolize your time and energy. 
11. Don't make mealtime a battleground
12. Don't purchase (or avoid purchasing) food solely to accommodate the eating-disordered person 
13. Don't assume the role of therapist, find a specialized therapist and suggest they go talk to someone. 

Resources courtesy of Allison Mankowski, R.D. @ ​https://www.leveluprd.com/

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