A collection of books that I personally have found helpful in my recovery.
They are rather varied and perhaps unknown, but I certainly feel they are worth reading.
Eating Disorder literature:
They are rather varied and perhaps unknown, but I certainly feel they are worth reading.
Eating Disorder literature:
A must read for all of you in recovery.
The Body Betrayed by Kathryn J. Zerbe , is an excellent book, covering all aspects of eating disorders, but also the co-morbidity that often co-occurs with them.
Beautifully articulated, with examples from her private practice.
I recommend this book to you all, if you have not already read it.
Johanna.S.Kandel's "Life Beyond Your Eating Disorder: Reclaim Yourself, Regain Your Health, Recover for Good."
A living example of recovered life and a massive inspiration!!
Joanna Poppink's "Healing Your Hungry Heart" comes with a number of recommendations from those who are recovering from an Eating Disorder.
The book covers a number of areas in which an Eating Disorder impacts - relationships, challenges in recovery and overcoming an Eating Disorder.
Lynn Crilly's "Hope with Eating Disorders" comes highly recommended from the Body Gossip team!
The books is described as providing; hope, strength and enabling recovery.
Rachael Oakes-Ash's "Good Girls Do Swallow" is a humorous and powerful memoir on her struggles with all forms of an Eating Disorder. It is also a courageous take on her journey through recovery and ultimate self acceptance on how you too can achieve that.
Recommendations from Men Get Eating Disorder Too site:
John Evans' "Becoming John -Anorexia's Not Just for Girls" An honest account of how the grips of Anorexia doesn't discriminate and effects men as well as women. Using pages from a diary he kept in hospital, John charts his journey through recovery and how he ultimately turned his life around.
Jenny Langley's "Boys Get Eating Disorders Too: Coping with Male Eating Disorders" in the family, is inspired by her sons battle with an Eating Disorder and her attempts to find out and source more information on how her son could overcome his struggles.
John F. Morgan's "The Invisible Man: A Self Help Guide for Men with Eating Disorders, Compulsive Exercise and Bigorexia" looks at a number of things;
- The wider cultural context of male body image problems
- Features unique to men
- Science fact and science fiction
- A 7 stage approach to treatment.
Overcoming Eating Disorders are explored from an approach of cognitive behavioural and problem-solving techniques.
These will help but are NOT self help books:
Yes, a really cheesy cover, but an excellent book.
Without diagnosing you, the book takes you through, what are potentially the core reasons behind your destructive behaviours.
Without diagnosing you, the book takes you through, what are potentially the core reasons behind your destructive behaviours.
Young, is an expert in Schema Therapy, a therapy I recommend incredibly highly.
Schema therapy is an expansion on CBT (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy) and with its expansion, focuses on those who have more complex issues than CBT can cover.
This book will hopefully give you greater insight into why you do what you do, and how you can change it.
It is NOT a self-help book, but one that can educate you and arm you with coping mechanisms to beat the eating disorder.
I loved this book. It is incredibly insightful and despite being a practitioners guide, is actually really easy to follow.
There is a lot of content but it is worthwhile content.
I first read this book about 8 years ago, but it has fast become a bible.
Ignore the fact it says it is for 'personality disorders' especially the likes of Borderline Personality Disorders, and understand it as a book that uses Schema Therapy, which digs a little deeper than CBT.
I say a little, I mean a LOT.
It focuses on schema which are our core issues.
Maladaptive schema's lead us to use destructive coping mechanisms in varying degrees.
Most of us here probably have overlapping schema's and these schema's lend us to struggle with issues such as failure, subjugation and abandonment (to name just a few).
IGNORE the title, but this book is brilliant.
Far more succinct than the last one, but with tremendous insight once again.
This book helps you assess your core schemas, with a questionnaire at the back (well worth your time completing)
Different therapies are merged together in a way that is easily understood for the reader.
Understanding Trauma:
One of THE best books I have read on trauma and its consequences.
It is excellent in ever sense of the word.
It takes you through each step of how trauma builds, how it effects our memory and cognitions.
It is also incredibly liberating because it allows you to believe there is life beyond trauma.
It is also incredibly liberating because it allows you to believe there is life beyond trauma.
Judith Lewis Herman's "Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - from Domestic Abuse to Political Terror."
Herman, always insightful, always sensitive, profiles various traumatic events and the aftermath of such violence.
Martha Ramsey's "Where I Stopped: Remembering Rape at Thirteen."
Potentially a difficult read, but an excellent book, which culminates in the recovery and surpassing of such an event.
Maya Angelou's "I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings."
Beautifully articulate, poetic and wonderful.
Again, a potentially difficult read, but beautiful.
Martha McCaughey’s “Real Knockouts- The FemaleFeminism of Self Defence,”
Emilie Buchwald, Martha Roth and Pamela R. Fletcher's "Transforming a Rape Culture."
Something a little bit different:
Writing as a Way of Healing.
This book is EXCELLENT.
This book is EXCELLENT.
If you want to discover the healing properties in writing, read this book.
It is a very easy read, with plenty of practical examples and offerings to get you started.
It helps you highlight the importance of writing in a way that HELPS not hinders.
Writing has literally saved my life and I therefore really recommend this book.
A stunning book that explores how to live a more fulfilling and inspiring life.
The Oriah Mountain Dreamer invites us, to read her words, her prose, and to discover who we truly are within.
Kay Redfield Jamison's "Touched With Fire: Manic-depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament."
An excellent exploration of creativity and mental illness.
An incredibly fascinating read.
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