Favourite Recommended Resources:

* Please note:
Often, media platforms can be sold or repurposed. When put together, these resources reflected weight-inclusive, anti-diet, body-neutral, fat-liberating & ED-informed values/philosophies. If you have discovered this is no longer the case, please let me know!

  • Anti-Diet & Nutrition

    • “The Rules of Normal Eating: A Commonsense Approach for Dieters, Overeaters, Undereaters, Emotional Eaters and Everyone in Between”, by Karen R. Koenig

    • “The Intuitive Eating Workbook: Ten Principles for Nourishing a Healthy Relationship with Food”, by Evelyn Tribole & Elyse Resch

    • “The Food and Feelings Workbook: A Full Course Meal on Emotional Health”, by Karen R. Koenig“The F*ck It Diet”, by Caroline Dooner

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

    • Gentle Nutrition”, by Rachel Hartley

    • "Lessons from the Fat-o-Sphere: Quit Dieting and Declare a Truce with Your Body", by Kate Harding & Marianne Kirby

    • "Drop the Diet: Guided Recipes for Overcoming Your Food Rules", by Lori Lieberman & Cate Sangster

    • "Enjoy it All: Improve Your Health and Happiness with Intuitive Eating", by Sarah Berneche

    Life-Enhancing Movement

    • "The Unapologetic Fat Girl's Guide to Exercise & Other Incendiary Acts", by Hanne Blank

    • "Big Gal Yoga", by Valerie Sagun

    • "Every Body Yoga", by Jessamyn Stanley

    Body Image, Fat Liberating & Weight Neutral

    • “Body Respect”, by Lindo Bacon

    • "Landwhale", by Jes Baker

    • More Than A Body: Your Body is An Instrument, Not An Ornament”, by Lindsay and Lexie Kite

    • "Things No One Tells Fat Girls", by Jes Baker

    • "The Fat Pedagogy Reader: Challenging Weight-Based Oppression Through Critical Education", by Erin Cameron & Constance Russell

    • "Fat: The Owner's Manual", by Ragen Chastain

    • "Fat Activism", by Charlotte Cooper

    • "Fat and Proud: The Politics of Size", by Charlotte Cooper

    • "Fat Shame: Stigma and the Fat Body in American Culture", by Amy Erdman Farrell

    • "What we Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat", by Aubrey Gordon

    • "You Just Need to Loser Weight, and 19 Other Myths About Fat People", by Aubrey Gordon

    • "Reclaiming Body Trust: A Path to Healing and Liberation", by Dana Sturtevant & Hilary Kinavey

    • "Fat!So?: Because You Don't Have to Apologize for Your Size", by Marilyn Wann

    Diversity & Bodies

    • The Body Is Not An Apology”, by Sonya Renee Taylor

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

    • Decolonizing Wellness: A QTBIPOC-Centered Guide to Escape the Diet Trap, Heal Your Self-Image, and Achieve Body Liberation”, by Dalia Kinsey

    • "Oppression & the Body: Roots, Resistance & Resolutions", by Christine Caldwell & Lucia Bennett Leighton

    • "Fat Girls in Black Bodies", by Joy Cox

    • "Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness", by Da'Shaun L. Harrison

    • "The Body Liberation Project: How Understanding Racism and Diet Culture Helps Cultivate Joy and Build Collective Freedom", by Chrissy King

    • "Fattily Ever After: A Black Fat Girl's Guide to Living Life Unapologetically", by Stephanie Yeboah

    • “Mindful Masculinity Workbook: A Practical Guide to Healthy Masculinity”, by Rocco Kayiatos

    • “The Queer and Transgender Resilience Workbook”, by Anneliese Singh

    • “Life Isn’t Binary: On Being Both, Beyond, and In-Between”, by Meg-John Barker & Alex Iantaffi

    • “Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation”, by Kate Bornstein & S. Bear Bergman

    • “Gender Failure”, by Rae Spoon & Ivan E. Coyote

    • “Beyond the Gender Binary”, by Alok Vaid-Menon

    • “Trans Bodies, Trans Selves: A Resource by and for Transgender Communities”, by Laura Erickson-Schroth

    • “You and Your Gender Identity”, by Dara Hoffman-Fox

    • “Ageism Unmasked: Exploring Age Bias and How to End It”, by Tracey Gendron

    Eating Disorder Specific & Medical

    • “Sick Enough”, by Jennifer L. Gaudiani

    • “Come As You Are: The Surprising New Science That Will Transform Your Sex Life”, by Emily Nagoski

    • “The Mind-Gut Connection: How the Hidden Conversation Within Our Bodies Impacts Our Mood, Our Choices, and Our Overall Health”, by Emeran Mayer

    • "Health at Any Size: The Surprising Truth About Your Weight", by Lindo Bacon

    • “The Emotional Eating, Chronic Dieting, Binge Eating, and Body Image Workbook”, by Judith Matz, Amy Pershing, & Christy Harrison

    • “Your Body Is Not An Apology Workbook: Tools for Living Radical Self-Love”, by Sonya Renee Taylor

    • “Overcoming Bulimia Workbook”, by Randi E. McCabe, Tracy L. McFarlane & Marion P. Olmstead

    • “The Anorexia Workbook”, by Michelle Heffner Macera & Georg H. Eifert

    • “The Body Image Workbook”, by Thomas F. Cash

    • “The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook for Bulimia”, by Ellen Astrachan-Fletcher & Michael Maslar

    • "The DBT Solution for Emotional Eating: A Proven Program to Break the Cycle of Bingeing and Out-of-Control Eating", by Debra Safer, Sarah Adler & Philip Masson

    • "The Radically Open DBT Workbook for Eating Disorders: From Overcontrol and Loneliness to Recovery and Connection", by Karyn Hall, Ellen Astrachan-Fletcher & Mima Simic

    • "The Renfrew Unified Treatment for Eating Disorders and Comorbidity Workbook", by Heather Thompson-Brenner, Melanie Smith, Gayle Brooks, Dee Ross Franklin, Hallie Espel-Huynh & James F. Boswell

    • “Break Free From ED - by the Centre for Clinical Interventions Workbook”, https://www.cci.health.wa.gov.au/Resources/Looking-After-Yourself/Disordered-Eating

    • “Maintenance Phase”, by Aubrey Gordon & Michael Hobbes

    • “Food Psych”, by Christy Harrison

    • “Intuitive Bites”, by Kirsten Ackerman

    • “ED Matters”, by Gurze/Salucore

    • “The Full Bloom: Body-Positive Parenting”, by the Full Bloom Project

    • “The Recovery Warrior Show”, by Jessica Flint & Recovery Warriors

    • “Eating Disorders: Navigating Recovery”, by Catherine Brown & Francis Lacobucci

    • “Fat Girls Club”, by Jessica Torres & Liesl Binx

    • “Balance is Key”, by Brittani Lancaster

    • “The F*ck It Podcast”, by Caroline Dooner

    • "Fresh Out the Cocoon", by Dr. Joy Cox

    • "The Fearless Rebelle Radio", by Summer Innanen

    • "Matter of Fat", by Cat Polivoda & Saraya Boghani

    • "She's All Fat", by Sophia Carter-Kahn

    • "Woman of Size", by Jana Schmieding

    • "The Fat Lip", by Ash

    • "Body Trauma Podcast", by Nia Patterson

    • "Body Liberation for All", by Dalia Kinsey

    • "The Belly Love Podcast", by Rachel W. Cole

    • "Hoodrat to Headwrap: A Decolonized Podcast", by Ericka Hart & Ebony Donnley

Diverse, Culturally-Sensitive
& Inclusive Care

The National Eating Disorder Information Centre (NEDIC) has guides to EDs for diverse individuals & communities, developed, “by individuals with lived experience for community members and carers” :

Rainbow Health has an ED evidence review & practical guide
for healthcare providers & researchers.

Healthcare Professionals

Click here for a list of funded ED services in Ontario.

To screen your patient for an ED, click here to open SBIRT-ED.

The Academy for Eating Disorders (AED) provides:

Balanced View BC also offers a free, self-directed course targeted towards health professionals, on: “Addressing Weight Bias and Stigma in Healthcare Settings”.

Caregivers & Loved Ones

Resources & Education for those caring for a loved one with an ED:

* Some resources are targeted to adolescences, but could be used more generally.

F.E.A.S.T (Families Empowered & Supporting Treatment for Eating Disorders) is an online, global community for loved ones, offering support groups, educational resources, and much more!