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resources

I often get asked "Where did you learn all this stuff?" From other people with lived experience. And we don't gate-keep here - this is some of the work that has most influenced my own and that I continue to recommend as an adjunct to therapy.

Neurodiversity-affirming eating disorder provider spreadsheet
International & updated regularly

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Books

Neurodivergence

  • I Will Die On This Hill: Autistic Adults, Autism Parents, and the Children Who Deserve a Better World by Jules Edwards & Meghan Ashburn

  • Unmasking Autism by Devon Price

  • Laziness Does Not Exist by Devon Price

  • Neuroqueer Heresies by Nick Walker

  • Divergent Mind by Jenara Nerenberg

  • The ADHD Effect on Marriage by Melissa Orlov
    (*CW: some non-affirming language, helpful concepts)
     

Eating disorders & body liberation

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

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

  • Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay

  • The Body Is Not an Apology: the Power of Radical Self-Love by Sonya Renee Taylor
     

Other

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

  • Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents by Lindsay Gibson

  • Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot by Mikki Kendall

Podcasts

Organizations

  • Body Reborn, an intersectional healing community for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (provides groups and mentorship)
     

  • FEDUP (Fighting Eating Disorders in Underrepresented Populations), a collective of trans+, intersex, and gender diverse people who believe eating disorders in marginalized communities are social justice issues (provides free peer-led support groups and a dietitian match program)
     

  • Nalgona Positivity Pride, in-community eating disorders and body-positive organization dedicated in creating visibility and resources for Black, Indigenous, communities of color (offers free harm reduction community circle)

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