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Helpful Resources

Here are value-aligned resources I recommend!

List of Weight-Neutral Providers

Podcasts

Looking for some new podcasts to check out that promote health and body liberation? 

Books

  • Ace: What Asexuality Reveals about Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex by Angela Chen 

  • Ace Voices: What It Means to Be Asexual, Aromantic, Demi or Grey-Ace by Eris Young

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

  • Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness by Da'shaun L. Harrison (Author)  Kiese Laymon (Foreword by)

  • Beyond Beautiful: A Practical Guide to Being Happy, Confident, and You in a Looks-Obsessed World by Anuschka Rees 

  • Body Kindness: Transform Your Health from the Inside Out–And Never Say Diet Again by Rebecca Scritchfield, RDN.

  • Body of Truth: How Science, History, and Culture Drive Our Obsession with Weight -- And What We Can Do About It by Harriet Brown 

  • Body Talk: How to Embrace Your Body and Start Living Your Best Life by Katie Sturino  

  • Breaking Free from Body Shame: Dare to Reclaim What God Has Named Good by Jess Connolly 

  • A Clinician's Guide to Gender Identity and Body Image: Practical Support for Working with Transgender and Gender-Expansive Clients by Heidi Dalzell and Kayti Protos 

  • Come as You Are: Revised and Updated: The Surprising New Science That Will Transform Your Sex Life by Emily Nagoski 

  • Decolonizing the Body: Healing, Body-Centered Practices for Women of Color to Reclaim Confidence, Dignity, and Self-Worth by Kelsey Blackwell (Author)  Christena Cleveland (Foreword by)

  • Decolonizing Trauma Work: Indigenous Stories and Strategies by Renee Linklater (Author)  Lewis Mehl-Madrona (Foreword by)

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

  • Eat to Love: A Mindful Guide to Transforming Your Relationship with Food, Body, and Life by Jenna Hollenstein. 

  • Every Body Yoga: Let Go of Fear, Get on the Mat, Love Your Body by Jessamyn Stanley 

  • Fat and Fertile: How to Get Pregnant in a Bigger Body by Nicola Salmon

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

  • How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi 

  • It's Always Been Ours: Rewriting the Story of Black Women's Bodies by Jessica Wilson

  • Landwhale: On Turning Insults Into Nicknames, Why Body Image Is Hard, and How Diets Can Kiss My Ass by Jes Baker

  • Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine by Uché Blackstock 

  • Nourish: How to Heal Your Relationship with Food, Body, and Self by Heidi Schauster, MS, RDN, CEDRD-S. 

  • Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good by Adrienne Maree Brown 

  • South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation by Imani Perry 

  • The Ethical Slut, Third Edition: A Practical Guide to Polyamory, Open Relationships, and Other Freedoms in Sex and Love (Revised) by Janet W. Hardy, Dossie Easton, and Dossie Easton 

  • The F*ck It Diet: Eating Should Be Easy by Caroline Dooner

  • Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives by Linda Villarosa

  • What We Don't Talk about When We Talk about Fat by Aubrey Gordon 

  • You Just Need to Lose Weight: And 19 Other Myths about Fat People by Aubrey Gordon 

  • Your Body Is Not an Apology Workbook: Tools for Living Radical Self-Love by Sonya Renee Taylor

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