Resources
(books, podcasts, articles- updated often)

I.Eating Disorders, Body Literacy, Diet Culture, Embodiment:

How to Raise an Intuitive Eater: Raising the Next Generation with Food and Body Confidence

Intuitive Eating (Fourth Edition) - Evelyn Tribole & Elyse Resch

Health at Every Size - Lindo Bacon

The Wellness Trap - Christy Harrison

Anti-Diet - Christy Harrison

Sick Enough - Jennifer Gaudiani

Mothers, Daughters & Body Image - Hillary McBride 

Feeding yourself with Love and Good Sense - Ellyn Satter

Nourish - Heidi Schauster

What We Don’t Talk About When we Talk About Fat -

Aubrey Gordon

You Just Need to Lose Weight - Aubrey Gordon

Body Kindness - Rebecca Scritchfield

Body Respect - Lindo Bacon, Lucy Aphramor

Shrill - Lindy West

Embodiment/Body literacy/Body Justice

Fearing the Black body - Sabrina String

The Wisdom of Your Body - Hillary Mcbride

Your Body is Not an Apology - Sonya Renee Taylor

Body of Truth - Harriet Brown

Reclaiming Body Trust - Hilary Kinavey & Dana Sturtevant

Untamed - Glennon Doyle 

Decolonizing Wellness A QTBIPOC Centered Guide to Escape the Diet Trap Heal Your Self Image & Achieve Body Liberation

Sister, Outsider - Audre Lorde

Take charge of your Fertility -Toni Weschler

Eating Disorder and HAES Friendly Podcasts
Eating Disorder Recovery - Dr. Jeanean Anderson

Eating Disorder Recovery Podcast - Tabitha Farrar

ED Matters

Every Body - Daria Matza

F Your Diet - Kimberly Weiss

Fat Club Podcast

Fat Face Feelings

Fearless Rebelle RadioSummer Innanen

Food Psych - Christy Harrison

Fresh out the Cocoon - Joy Cox

Intuitive Bites Podcast -Kirsten Ackerman

Life. Unrestricted. - Meret Boxler

Life with ED- Julia Werth

Love Food - Julie Duffy Dillon

Maintenance Phase - Aubrey Gordan & Michael Hobbes

Matter of Fat Podcast

Mental Note Eating Recovery Center

Mom Genes - Rachel Coleman & Tina Laboy

Nutrition Matters- Paige Smathers

PCOS and Food Peace-Julie Duffy Dillon

Plus Mommy Podcast

She's All Fat-April K. Quioh and Sophie Carter-Kahn

The Appetite - Opal: Food + Body Wisdom

The Beyond the Food Show -Stephanie Dodier

The Bodylove Project -Jessi Haggerty

The F*ck It Diet-Caroline Dooner

The One Beautiful Yes! Podcast - Tiana Dodson

The Racist Sandwich Podcast - Soleil Ho & Zahir Janmohamed

Trust Your Body Project

Woman of Size

II.Polyvagal theory, Trauma and the Body 

The Polyvagal Theory - Stephen Porges

The Body keeps the score - Bessel Van der Kolk

My Grandmother’s Hands - Resmaa Menakem 

Waking the Tiger, Healing Trauma - Peter Levine

The Boy who was Raised as a Wolf - Bruce Perry

It Didn’t Start with You - Mark Wolyn

III.ADHD & Neurodivergence


You mean I’m not lazy, stupid or Crazy? Kelly, Ramundo

Divergent Mind - Jenara Nerenberg

Your Brain is Not Broken - Tamara Rosier

The Mindfulness Prescription for Adult ADHD: Lidia Zylowska

ADHD Podcasts

Women & ADHD (episode with Aleta Storch is BOMB.com) 

I Have ADHD 

ADHD for Smart-Ass Women with Tracy Otsuka 

The ADD Experts Podcast

IV.Art & Creativity

Big Magic - Elizabeth Gilbert 

The Artist’s Way - Julia Cameron 

The Artist’s Rule - Nurturing your Creative Soul with Monastic Wisdom - Christine Valters Paintner

Bored and Brilliant - Manoush Zomorodi

V.Deconstruction & Spiritual Exploration:

Richard Rohr - the Divine Dance

Falling Upward - Richard Rohr 

The Universal Christ - Richard Rohr

Searching for Sunday - Rachel Held Evans

The Sin of Certainty - Pete Enns

Insurrection - Peter Rollins 

Finding God in the Waves - Mike McHargue 

Seeds of Contemplation - Thomas Merton

the Hours - Rilke

Dark night of the Soul - St. John of the Cross

The Power of Now - Eckhardt Tolle

Be Here Now - Ram Dass

Start Where You Are - Pema Chodron

The Enneagram

The Path Between Us - Suzanne Stabile

The Road Back to you - Suzanne Stabile, Ian Cron

The Enneagram - Richard Rohr, Ebert

Enneagram (Podcasts):

Enneagram podcasts: 

Typology 

the Enneagram journey 

Deconstruction & Spiritual seeking (Podcasts):

You have Permission

Evolving faith

Exvangelical 

the Liturgist podcast 

Onbeing - Krista Tippett

Nomad episodes: Brian Peck episode, James Allison, Hilary McBride, Jenimah McAlpine, Miles Irving, Adele Jarret-Kerr, Lisa Gungor, Natalia Nana) 

Another name for everything - Richard Rohr 

Go home Bible, You’re drunk 

the Robcast 

You made it weird with Pete Holmes (episodes: Richard Rohr, Rob Bell, Kent Dobson, Mike McHargue) 

Encountering silence 

Spiritual Wanderlust

Humanize Me

Healing from Purity Culture

Pure - Linda Kay Klein

Shameless- Nadia Bolz-Weber

Come as you are - Emily Nagoski

VI.Empowerment

Journal of Radical Permission - Sonya Renee Taylor & adrienne marie brown

Untamed - Glennon Doyle

Tiny Beautiful things - Cheryl Strayed

VII.Meaning/Purpose/Existential

Man’s search for meaning

The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho

To Bless the Space Between Us - John O’Donohue

Staring at the Sun - Irvin Yalom

Developing the Contemplative life:

Braiding Sweetgrass - Robin Wall Kimmerer

When Things Fall Apart - Pema Chodron

Walking in wonder - John O’Donohue

Anam Cara - John O’Donohue

Seeds of Contemplation - Thomas Merton

The Hours - Thomas Merton

Thomas Merton’s Path to the Palace of Nowhere - James Finley

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek - Annie Dilliard

New & Selected Poems - Mary Oliver


What else should be on this list?

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