Resources & Support

Support

Body Image Health

3D Your Whole Life: A Christian-based program that helps you achieve wholeness by eating well, living well, and loving God

Eating Disorder Referral and Information Center

I Fight Him With Love ~ Seeing Beauty in Suffering: An amazing, Catholic-based website that includes plans for the opening of a Catholic treatment center called Made in His Image for young women suffering from eating disorders and/or abuse.

Light Weigh: A Catholic approach to making peace with food and weight loss

My Real Hunger: The website/blog of a Catholic mom, health, fitness, and lifestyle coach who also overcame anorexia

National Association of Anorexia and Related Disorders

National Eating Disorders Association

Overeaters Anonymous

 

Books

The Body Image Workbook: An Eight-Step Program for Learning to Like Your Looks by Thomas Cash, Ph.D.

Captivating: Unveiling the Mystery of a Woman’s Soul by John and Stasi Eldredge

Choosing Beauty: A 30-Day Spiritual Makeover for Women by Gina Loehr

Fertility, Cycles & Nutrition (4th Edition) by Marilyn Shannon

Food Rules: An Eater’s Manual by Michael Pollan

Fit for Eternal Life by Kevin Vost

Hope, Help, and Healing for Eating Disorders: A Whole-Person Approach to Treatment of Anorexia, Bulimia, and Disordered Eating by Dr. Gregory Jantz and Ann McMurray

In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto by Michael Pollan

The Privilege of Being a Woman by Alice von Hildebrand

Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls by Mary Pipher, Ph.D.

The Rosary Workout  by Peggy Bowes

The Secret Language of Eating Disorders: How You Can Understand and Work to Cure Anorexia and Bulimia by Peggy Claude-Pierre

 

Blogs/Websites

Body Bliss Central

Body Positive

Mamas Movin’ With Mary

Geneen Roth

Fit for Faith

Something’s Fishy

 

Articles

Beyond Pearls Blog Series: Journey to Beauty: A young woman shares her struggles with her weight, an eating disorder, and finding true feminine beauty that hinges on God’s overwhelming love for her. This a four part series well worth your time.

The Way We Eat

 

Hodge Podge

Michaela-Noel: A website that offers stylist, modest junior girls’ clothing

This page is a work in progress. I plan on including some more of my favorite books and other resources related to eating disorders, body image, fitness, and food. Also, if you’ve stumbled upon a resource that you think would be helpful to readers, please contact me.

Thank you for your patience!