Resources

Body Image.

Podcasts:

  • Maintenance Phase with Aubrey Gordon and Michael Hobbes is a podcast about debunking the junk science behind health fads, wellness scams and nonsensical nutrition advice.

  • Fearless Rebelle Radio with Summer Innanen is a podcast dedicated to body positivity, self-worth, and feminism.

  • Heavy Conversation with Chubstr and Jody from Bear Skn is a podcast by two plus size men. They discusses the issues ranging from finding clothes that fit, to dating, to the myth that fat people can’t be active.

  • Body Kindness with Rebecca Scritchfield talks about how to show up with kindness for your body and to change diet culture.

Books:

  • Health at Every Size: The Surprising Truth About Your Weight by Lindo Bacon

  • Body of Truth by Harriet Brown

  • The Body Is Not An Apology by Sonya Renee Taylor

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

  • You Have the Right to Remain Fat by Virgie Tovar

Additional Resources:

• Health at Every Size (HAES) Community

Eating Disorders.

Books:

  • The Intuitive Eating Workbook: Ten Principles for Nourishing a Healthy Relationship with Food (A New Harbinger Self-Help Workbook)

  • 8 Keys to Recovery from an Eating Disorder by Carolyn Costin and Gwen Schubert Grabb

Eating Disorder Recovery Apps (iPhone/Android):

  • Recovery Record

  • Rise up and Recover

Podcasts:

  • Food Psych with Christy Harrison is a podcast focused on helping you make peace with food and your body.

  • The Love, Food Podcast with Julie Duffy Dillon is a podcast for anyone with a complicated relationship with food who wants a different approach.

  • Dietitians Unplugged with Glenys Oyston and Aaron Flores explores ideas of health & wellness from a new perspective.

  • Life. Unrestricted. with Meret Boxler interviews many leading voices in the anti- diet and Health at Every Size movements while sharing her own journey through all of it.

Trauma.

Books:

  • The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel Van Der Kolk

  • The Courage to Heal by Ellen Bass and Laura Davis

  • It Didn’t Start with You by Mark Wolynn

  • Childhood Disrupted by Donna Jackson Nakazawa

  • What my Bones Know by Stephanie Foo

  • Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving by Pete Walker

  • Healing From Trauma: A Survivor’s Guide to Understanding your Symptoms and Reclaiming your Life by Jasmin Lee Cori

Grounding Resources:

Podcasts:

  • Beyond Trauma with Melissa Sundwall, Jennifer Savage and Bridger Falkentien is a psychotherapy podcast from therapists for clients about the journey of trauma recovery.

  • Life After PTSD is a podcast that shares stories of survivors creating a life after PTSD.

Additional Resources:

Mood.

Books:

  • The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook: Practical DBT Exercises for Learning Mindfulness, Interpersonal Effectiveness, Emotion Regulation, and Distress Tolerance by by Matthew McKay, Jeffrey C. Wood and Jeffrey Brantley

  • Mind Over Mood: Change How You Feel by Changing the Way You Think (second ed.) by Dennis Greenberger and Christine Padesky

  • Acceptance and Commitment Skills for Perfectionism and High-Achieving Behaviors: Do Things Your Way, Be Yourself, and Live a Purposeful Life by Patricia E. Zurita