Book Recommendations

BOOKS

All of the books below have a recovery orientated focus for all manner of issues or are in some way filled with healing hope, wisdom and encouragement. All of these resources have been read and checked and are as trigger free as is possible to ascertain for a wide indeterminate audience! If you have any books you’d like to suggest please email us and let us know at werfreedomfighters@gmail.com

June Alexander – A Collaborative Approach to Eating Disorders

Lisa Bevere – You Are Not What You Weigh: End Your War With Food and Discover Your True Value

Caitlin Boyle – Operation Beautiful

Jack Canfield – Chicken Soup for the Recovering Soul

Lucy Capacchione – Recovery of Your Inner Child


Pema Chodron - When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times


Pema Chodron - The Places That Scare You - A Guide to Fearlessness


Pema Chodron - Start Where You Are: How to Accept Yourself and Others


Paulo Coelho – Warrior of Light


Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist

Karen Conterio – Bodily Harm: The Breakthrough Healing Program for Self Injurers

Carolyn Costin – 8 Keys to Recovery of an ED

Lynn Crilly – Hope With Eating Disorders

John Evans – Becoming John: Anorexia’s Not Just For Girls

Sunny Sea Gold – Food: The Good Girl’s Drug

Louise L Hay – Power Thought Cards

Mindy Jacobson-Levy and Maureen Foy-Tornay – Finding Your Voice Through Creativity

Carolyn Jennings – Hunger Speaks

Anita Johnson – Eating in the Light of the Moon

Jenny Langley – Boys Get Anorexia Too: Coping With Male Eating Disorders in ‘The
Family’

Aimee Lui – Gaining: The Truth About Life After Eating Disorders

Aimee Lui – Restoring Our Bodies, Reclaiming Our Lives: Guidance and Reflections on
Recovery From Eating Disorders

Cathy Malchiodi – The Art Therapy Sourcebook

Courtney Martin – Perfect Girls, Starving Daughters – The Frightening Normalcy of Hating Your Body


Rosie Molinary - Beautiful You

John F Morgan – The Invisible Man: A Self Help Guide for Men With Eating Disorders, Compulsive Exercise and Bigorexia


Oriah Mountain Dreamer - The Invitation


Oriah Mountain Dreamer - The Call


Oriah Mountain Dreamer - The Dance


Oriah Mountain Dreamer - What We Ache For

Susan Orsillo and Lizabeth Roemer – The Mindful Way Through Anxiety: Break Free From
Chronic Worry and Reclaim Your Life

John C Parkin – Fuck It: The Ultimate Spiritual Way

Anne Paterson – Fit to Die: Men and Eating Disorders

Joanna Poppink – Healing Your Hungry Heart

Andrea Roe – You Are Not Alone: The Book of Companionship for Women Struggling With Eating Disorders

Babette Rothschild – The Body Remembers: The Psychophysiology of Trauma and Traumatic Experience

Cheryl Saban – What Is Your Self-Worth?

Jenni Schaefer – Life Without ED: How One Woman Declared Independence from Her Eating Disorder and How You Can Too

Jenni Schaefer – Goodbye ED, Hello Me: Recover From Your Eating Disorder and Fall in Love With Life

Diane Schwartz – Whose Face Is In The Mirror?

Doris Smeltzer – Silenced by Bulimia


Anthony Strano - Seeking Silence: Exploring and Practicing The Spirituality of Silence


Thich Nhat Hanh - Peace is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Every Day Life

Janet Treasure and Ulrike Schmidt – Getting Better Bit(e) By Bit(e)

Straus and Kreisman – Sometime I Act Crazy: Living With Borderline Personality Disorder

Abraham J Twerski – Addictive Thinking: Understanding Self Deception – How the Lies We
Tell Ourselves and Others Perpetuate Our Addictions

Bessel A Van Der Kolk – Traumatic Stress: Effects of Overwhelming Experience on Mind, Body and Society

Kathryn Zerbe – The Body Betrayed: A Deeper Understanding of Women, Eating Disorders and Treatment