Bibliotherapy

Something I have found helpful, both as a therapist and as a human being, is how books can expand my awareness and assist me in areas of growth. Here are some recommendations that I have read that may be helpful to you. These do not replace therapy, but can be a resource that is adjunctive to therapy or beneficial while you wait for services.

Those with * may be triggering; please take care before reading them.

Body and Food Relationships

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

Intuitive Eating, 4th Edition by Evelyn Tribole and Elyse Resch

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

Your Body is Not an Apology: The Power Radical Self-Love by Sonya Renee Taylor

Hunger by Roxanne Gay*

Trauma-Based Books and Memoirs

Trauma and Recovery by Judith Herman*

What My Bones Know by Stephanie Foo*

Know My Name by Chanel Miller*

Parenting/Caregiving for Under 18

Other Reads:

All About Love by bell hooks

The Will to Change by bell hooks

Perfectionist Guide to Losing Control by Katherine Morgan Schalfer

Beyond the Gender Binary by Alok Vaid-Menon

Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner

Untamed by Glennon Doyle

All Boys Aren’t Blue by George M. Johnson*

Tiny Beautiful Things by Cheryl Strayed

Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl

Unmasking Autism by Devon Price, PhD