Reading List
Suggested reading: eating disorders
Below is a list of books which are recommended by EDV to assist those wishing to recover from an eating disorder. The
list is by no means exhaustive, but is designed to assist you to get started on the road to discovering books best suited
to your own circumstances.
These books and many more are all available via the Bookshop on the EDV website at www.eatingdisorders.org.au/
books, or most are available to borrow from our library if you are a member of EDV.
8 keys to recovery from an eating disorder
Authors: Carolyn Costin, Gwen Schubert Grabb
This is no ordinary book on how to overcome an eating disorder. The authors bravely share
their unique stories of suffering from and eventually overcoming their own severe eating
disorders. Interweaving personal narrative with the perspective of their own therapist-client
relationship, their insights bring an unparalleled depth of awareness into just what it takes to
successfully beat this challenging and seemingly intractable clinical issue.
The beginner’s guide to eating disorders recovery
Author: Nancy J Kolodny
Written for young adult readers and their loved ones, this self-help guide provides the latest
information on eating disorders for anyone confronting these problems for the first time.
Eating disorders: the path to recovery
Author: Dr Kate Middleton
Written primarily for young adults, this insightful handbook is designed to push those
suffering from eating disorders towards recovery. Information is provided on every aspect of
eating disorders, including what they are, how they operate, who is prone to have them, and
how they can be treated.
Life without ed
Authors: Jenni Schaefer, Thom Rutledge
Prescriptive, supportive, and inspirational, “Life Without Ed“ shows readers how they too
can overcome their eating disorders.
Goodbye ed, hello me
Author: Jenni Schaefer
In “Goodbye Ed, Hello Me” Jenni shows you that being fully recovered is not just about
breaking free from destructive behaviors with food and having a healthy relationship with
your body; it also means finding joy and peace in your life.
Lying in weight
Author: Trisha Gura
In this groundbreaking book, science journalist Trisha Gura explodes the myth that those
who suffer from eating disorders, including anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa, are
primarily teenage girls.
Bulimia: a guide to recovery
Authors: Lindsey Hall, Leigh Cohn
This self-help guidebook offers a complete understanding of bulimia and a plan for recovery.
It includes a two-week program to stop bingeing, ideas for things to do instead of bingeing,
a guide for support groups, specific advice for loved ones, and the author’s inspirational
story of her self-cure.
Hope, help and healing for eating disorders
Author: Gregory Jantz
In this powerful book Dr. Gregory Jantz shares his well-tested and successful approach that
addresses the emotional, relational, physical, and spiritual dimensions of healing from an
eating disorder.
Sensing the self
Author: Sheila Reindl
To recover, bulimic women need to develop a sense of self--to attune to their physical,
psychic, and social self-experience.
The invisible man: a self-help guide for men with eating disorders, compulsive exercise and
bigorexia
Author: John F Morgan
Applies the latest research to produce a practical, problem-focused self-help manual for
men with eating disorders and body image problems.
Overcoming bulimia workbook
Authors: McCabe, McFarlane, Olmsted.
This workbook contains tools to help people struggling with bulimia to break the cycle of
bingeing and reacting, allowing them to take control of their lives and make positive behavior
changes.
The anorexia workbook
Authors: Michelle Heffner, Georg H Eifert.
Structured in a logical, step-by-step progression of exercises, the workbook first focuses on
providing you with a new understanding of anorexia and the ways you might have already
tried to control the problem. Then the book progresses through techniques that teach how
to use mindfulness to deal with out-of-control thoughts and feelings, how to identify choices
that lead to better heath and quality of life, and how to redirect the energy formerly spent on
weight loss into actions that will heal the body and mind.
Overcoming binge eating
Author: Christopher Fairburn
This trusted bestseller provides all the information needed to understand binge eating and
bring it under control, whether you are working with a therapist or on your own.
Why weight
Author: Geneen Roth.
A workbook that will enable readers to explore for themselves the issues that lead to
compulsive eating.
Telling ED no!
Author: Cheryl Kerrigan.
Recovery from an eating disorder requires support of all kinds, and this book is filled with
ideas, exercises, and insights.with over 100 practical recovery tools.
The mindfulness and acceptance workbook for bulimia
Author: Emily K Sandoz, Kelly G Wilson, Troy Dufrene
The approach to moving beyond bulimia in this book is different than other treatments you
may have tried. Instead of encouraging you to avoid or fight against the conflicted feelings
you have about food and your body, this workbook invites you to welcome and accept your
deepest fears, learn to live with them, and put the things that are really important in your life
first.
Beating ana
Author: Shannon Cutts.
Read about recovery, participate in self-quizzes, short exercises, motivational affirmations,
and journaling that is specifically designed to give you the courage, support, and tangible
skills to say ‘no’ to your eating disorder and ‘yes’ to your life!
Overcoming overeating
Author: Jane Hirschmann
Diet/binge. Good food/bad food. Punishment/reward. These are the compulsive eater’s
nightmares, a longtime pattern of recrimination and guilt that ultimately leads to more
overeating and more weight gain. Now, for the first time, here is a proven, step-by-step plan
that doesn’t control your eating habits--but cures them, once and for all.
Reclaiming yourself from binge eating
Author: Leora Fulvio
Are you caught in the trap of binge eating, emotional eating, mindless eating, and diet
obsession? This book will help you to stop binge eating right now.
Regaining yourself
Author: Ira M Sacker.
Do you want to get better, but are afraid to let go of your eating disorder? After all, your
eating disorder has defined who you are, has been a constant in your life, and has helped
you cope and navigate your own world. To leave it behind would mean you wouldn’t know
who you are, how to act, or where to begin. Right? Wrong.
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Reading list prepared by Eating Disorders Victoria. © 2014 Eating Disorders Foundation of Victoria Inc. Sept 2014
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