Referrals & Resources
Eating Disorder Organizations
organizations providing general information, treatment resources, opportunities for training, and peer support:
- About Face: a non-profit that seeks to educate girls with the knowledge and tools to fight back against a culture that diminishes and disempowers them though harmful media messages. Offering a variety of programs and resources.
- AED: Academy For Eating Disorders: an international transdisciplinary organization that advocates for treatment, prevention, and research in the field of eating disorders.
- ANAD: National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Related Disorders: a non-profit whose purpose is to alleviate suffering and provide support to those struggling with eating disorders.
- APTED: aims to improve efforts in prevention, early detection, direct treatment and training, so as to lessen the incidence of eating disorders and to improve identification and treatment.
- The Body in Not an Apology: a global movement focused on radical self-love and body empowerment.
- The Body Positive: Founded to create a healing community that offers freedom from suffocating societal messages that keep people in perpetual struggle with their bodies. Provides training courses to educators and student leaders to help create body positive programs in schools and communities.
- EDC: Eating Disorders Coalition: Seeks to advance the recognition of eating disorders as a public health priority, throughout the United States.
- EDReferral: Eating Disorder Referral & Information Center: a great website for finding links to eating disorder treatment providers in your area.
- EDRC: Eating Disorder Resource Center: a non-profit committed to increasing understanding and awareness of eating disorders for the general public and health professionals.
- IAEDP: International Association of Professionals Treating Eating Disorders: works to provide quality education and top level training to multidisciplinary treatment providers who treat the full spectrum of eating disorder difficulties.
- Maudsley Parents: a volunteer organization of parents who have helped their children recover from anorexia nervosa using the Family-Based Treatment approach, also known as the Maudsley Method, and who seek to offer hope and help to other families facing eating disorders.
- Mental Health Foundations: aims to increase the accessibility of mental health support through the development of online offerings for caregivers of loved ones with eating disorders and other mental health concerns.
- NEDA: National Eating Disorders Association: a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting individuals and families affected by eating disorders.
- Project Heal: a non-profit that seeks to help people struggling with eating disorders access recovery through peer mentorship and treatment grants.
LQBTQ+ Support Organizations
organizations providing support to transgender and LGBT-Q individuals:
- National Queer & Trans Therapists of Color Network: advancing healing justice by transforming mental health for queen and trans people of color.
- Queer Body Love: provides one-on-one and group support to help individuals shift their relationship with food, their bodies and themselves.
- T-FFED: Trans Folkx Fighting EDs: a collective of trans/gender diverse folkx and allies whose mission is to address the disproportionately high incidence of eating disorders in trans and gender-diverse individuals through radical community healing, recovery institution reform, empowerment and education.
Financial Support Organizations
websites offering additional treatment grant information:
Books
helpful resources and reading to support recovery
Eating in the Light of the Moon:
How Women Can Transform Their Relationship With Through Myths, Metaphor, and Storytelling
(1996) by Dr. Anita Johnston
Health at Every Size
The Surprising Truth About Your Weight
(2008) by Linda Bacon
8 Keys to Recovery From an Eating Disorder:
Effective Strategies from Therapeutic Practice and Personal Experience
(2011) by Carolyn Costin & Gwen Schubert Grabb
Looking Queer:
Body Image and Identity in Lesbian, Bisexual, Gay, and Transgender Communities
(1998) by Dawn Atkins
Help Your Teenager Beat an Eating Disorder
Second Edition
(2004) by James Lock and Daniel Le Grange
Self-Love Diet:
The Only Diet That Works
(2013) by Michelle Minero: http://theselflovediet.org
Life Without Ed:
How One Women Declared Independence From Her Eating Disorder and How You Can Too
(2003) by Jenni Schaefer and Thom Rutledge
Good-Bye Ed, Hello Me:
Recover From Your Eating Disorder And Fall in Love With Life
(2009) by Jenni Schaefer
Embody:
Learning to Love Your Unique Body (and Quiet that Critical Voice!
(2014) by Connie Sobczak
The Body is not an Apology:
The Power of Radical Self Love
(2018) Sonya Renee Taylor
