Recommended Reading List

Andrea’s Voice: Silenced by Bulimia – Doris Smeltzer

Big Fat Lies: The Truth about Your Weight and Your Health – Glenn Gaesser

The Body Myth: Adult Women and the Pressure to be Perfect – Margo Maine & Joe Kelly

Body Wars: Making Peace with Women’s Bodies – Margo Maine

Children and Teens Afraid To Eat: Helping Youth in Today’s Weight-Obsessed World -  Francie Berg

Dads and Daughters: How to Inspire, Understand, and Support Your Daughter When she is Growing Up So Fast – Joe Kelly

The Eating Disorder Source Book: A Comprehensive Guide to the Causes, Treatments, and Prevention of Eating Disorders – Carolyn Costin

Eating in the Light of the Moon: How Women Can Transform their Relationships with Food through Myths, Metaphors, and Storytelling – Anita Johnston

The Enchanted Tree: An Original American Tale – Flavia Weedn & Lisa Weedn Gilbert  

Father Hunger: Fathers, Daughters, and the Pursuit of Thinness – Margo Maine

Health At Every Size: The Surprising Truth About Your Weight – Linda Bacon

How I Look Journal - Nan & Molly Dellheim

Hunger Pains – Mary Pipher

I’m Gonna Like Me: Letting Off a Little Self-Esteem – Jamie Lee Curtis & Laura Cornell

I’m Like So Fat! Helping Your Teen Make Healthy Choices about Eating and Exercise in a Weight-Obsessed World – Dianne Neumark-Sztainer

Intuitive Eating: A Revolutionary Program that Works – Evelyn Tribole & Elyse Resch

It’s Okay To Be Different – Todd Parr

Life Without Ed: How One Women Declared Independence from Her Eating Disorder and How You Can Too – Jenni Schafer & Thom Rutledge

Making Weight: Healing Men’s Conflicts with Food, Weight, and Shape – Arnold Anderson, Leigh Cohn, & Tom Holbrook

Mom, I feel Fat: Becoming Your Daughter’s Ally in Developing a Healthy Body Image – Sharon Hersh

Perfect Girls, Starving Daughters: How the Quest for Perfection in Harming Young Women – Courtney Martin

Practice Guideline for the Treatment of Patients with Eating Disorders: Third Edition – American Psychiatric Association

Preventing Childhood Eating Problems: A Practical Positive Approach to Raising Kids Free of Food and Weight Conflicts – Jane Hirschmann & Lela Zaphiropoulos

The Prevention of Eating Problems and Eating Disorders: Theory, Research, and Practice – Michael Levine & Linda Smolak

Real Kids Come in All Sizes: Ten Essential Lessons to Build Your Child’s Body Esteem – Kathy Kater

Regaining Your Self: Breaking Free from the Eating Disorder Identity: A Bold New Approach – Ira Sacker

Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls – Mary Pipher & Ruth Ross

Shapesville - Andy Mills, Becky Osborn, & Erica Neitz

The Rainbow Fish - Marcus Pfister

Today I Feel Silly: And Other Moods that Make My Day – Jamie Lee Curtis & Laura Cornell

A Very Hungry Girl: How I Filled Up On Life... and How You Can, Too! – Jessica Weiner

What Are You Hungry For?: Feed Your Tummy and Your Heart - Emme Aronson, Phillip Aronson, & Erik Brooks

Your Child’s Weight: Helping without Harming – Ellyn Satter