Recommended Books
Disordered Eating & Body Image:
- Big Fat Lies: The Truth About Your Weight and Your Health
- Body of Truth: How Science, History, and Culture Drive Our Obsession with Weight – and What We Can Do About It
- Health Food Junkies
- Intuitive Eating
- Making Peace With Food
- The Rules of Normal Eating
- The Body Myth
- The Food & Feelings Workbook
- The Religion of Thinness
- Secrets From the Eating Lab
Parenting:
- Brainstorm: The Power and Purpose of the Teenage Brain
- Better by Mistake: The Unexpected Benefits of Being Wrong
- Enough As She Is: How to Help Girls Move Beyond Impossible Standards of Success to Live Healthy, Happy, and Fulfilling Lives
- Mindsight
- Parenting from the Inside Out: How a Deeper Self-Understanding Can Help You Raise Children Who Thrive
- Play: How it Shapes the Brain, Opens the Imagination, and Invigorates the Soul
- Tech-Wise Family: Everyday Steps for Putting Technology in Its Proper Place
- The Whole Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child’s Developing Mind
Relationships:
- Boundaries
- How to Get a Date Worth Keeping
- Intimacy From the Inside Out
- I Thought it Was Just Me (but it wasn’t)
- Safe People
- The Seven Principles of Making Marriage Work
- You Are the One You’ve Been Waiting For
Trauma:
- The Body Keeps Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
- The Body Remembers
- The Book of Forgiving: The Fourfold Path for Healing Ourselves and Our World
- Getting Past Your Past: Take Control of Your Life with Self-Help Techniques from EMDR Therapy
- Internal Family Systems Skills Training Manual
- Introduction to the Internal Family Systems Model
- Trauma and Recovery
Personal Development:
- The Beauty of Different: Observations From a Confident Misfit
- Braving the Wilderness: The Quest For True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone
- Carry on Warrior: The Power of Embracing Your Messy, Beautiful Life
- Daring Greatly: How the Courage to be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent and Lead
- The Enneagram
- The 52 List Project
- The Gifts of Imperfection
- The Mindful Path to Self-Compassion: Freeing Yourself from Destructive Thoughts and Emotions
- Present Over Perfect
- The Ragamuffin Gospel
- Rising Strong: The Reckoning. The Rumble. The Revolution.
- This is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, About Living a Compassionate Life
- I Thought it Was Just Me (But it wasn’t)
- What’s so Amazing about Grace?
- Wounded Healer
Creativity:
Updated resources on creativity coming soon!
Treatment Centers + Providers:
- Center for Change
- Center for Discovery+Affiliates
- Monte Nido
- Reasons
- University of California San Diego Adolescent+IOP+Day Treatment Programs
Resources + Blogs:
- Academy of Eating Disorders
- Brené Brown
- The Daring Way™
- EMDRIA
- International Association of Eating Disorder Professionals
- National Eating Disorder Association
- Self Leadership
- Trauma Center
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