resources
AWARENESS, ADVOCACY & EDUCATION
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National Eating Disorder Association (NEDA) The National Eating Disorders Association (NEDA) is the leading non-profit organization in the United States advocating on behalf of and supporting individuals and families affected by eating disorders. They focus on prevention, improved access to treatment, and increased research funding to better understand and treat eating disorders. Project Heal Project HEAL: Help to Eat, Accept and Live is a 501(c) not-for-profit organization that provides scholarship funding for people with eating disorders who cannot afford treatment. Academy for Eating Disorders (AED) Designed for eating disorder professionals. AED promotes effective treatment, develops prevention initiatives, stimulates research and sponsors an international conference. Alliance for Eating Disorder Awareness Provides educational information to parents and caregivers regarding the warning signs, dangers and consequences of eating disorders. T-FEED (trans folx fighting eating disorders) T-FFED is a collective of trans/gender diverse folx and allies who believe eating disorders in marginalized communities are social justice issues. We are based in Los Angeles but are honored to have national reach in our trainings, support structures, impact, and eventually our Healing Intensives. The Body Is Not An Apology The Body Is Not An Apology is an international movement committed to cultivating global Radical Self Love and Body Empowerment. They believe that discrimination, social inequality, and injustice are manifestations of our inability to make peace with the body, our own and others. Through information dissemination, personal and social transformation projects and community building, The Body is Not An Apology fosters global, radical, unapologetic self love which translates to radical human love and action in service toward a more just, equitable and compassionate world. |
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National Association of Anorexia Nervosa & Associated Disorders (ANAD) Distributes lists of therapists, hospitals and informative materials; sponsors support groups, conferences, advocacy campaigns, research and a crisis hotline. Eating Disorders Anonymous A fellowship of individuals who share their experience, strength and hope with each other that they may solve their common problems and help others to recover from their eating disorders. People can and do fully recover from having an eating disorder. In EDA, we help one another identify and claim milestones of recovery. The only requirement for membership is a desire to recover from an eating disorder. The National Association for Males with Eating Disorders (NAMED) Provides support to males with eating disorders and their families and works to make the public more aware of the issue and to be a resource of information on the subject. The Binge Eating Disorder Association (BEDA) BEDA Provides individuals who suffer from binge eating disorder with the recognition and resources they deserve to begin a safe journey toward a healthy recovery. BEDA serves as a resource for treatment providers to prevent, detect, diagnose and treat the disorder. http://www.helpguide.org/mental/binge_eating_disorder.html Proud To be Me Proud2Bme is an online community created by and for teens. We cover everything from fashion and beauty to news, culture, and entertainment—all with the goal of promoting positive body image and encouraging healthy attitudes about food and weight. Eating Disorder Coalition EDC The EDC advances the recognition of eating disorders as a public health priority throughout the United States. They focus attention on educating and working with Congress, to effectively influence federal policy. |
BOOKS
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8 Keys to Recovery from an Eating Disorder
by Carolyn Costin & Gwen Schubert Grabb For anyone who has suffered, their family and friends, and other helping professionals, this book should be by your side. With great compassion and clinical expertise, Costin and Grabb walk readers through the ins and outs of the recovery process, describing what therapy entails, clarifying the common associated emotions such as fear, guilt, and shame, and, most of all, providing motivation to seek help if you have been discouraged, resistant, or afraid. The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love By Sonya Renee Taylor The Body Is Not an Apology offers radical self-love as the balm to heal the wounds inflicted by these violent systems. World-renowned activist and poet Sonya Renee Taylor invites us to reconnect with the radical origins of our minds and bodies and celebrate our collective, enduring strength. As we awaken to our own indoctrinated body shame, we feel inspired to awaken others and to interrupt the systems that perpetuate body shame and oppression against all bodies. When we act from this truth on a global scale, we usher in the transformative opportunity of radical self-love, which is the opportunity for a more just, equitable, and compassionate world--for us all. Women Food and God By Geneen Roth No matter how sophisticated or wealthy or broke or enlightened you are, how you eat tells all.After three decades of studying, teaching and writing about our compulsions with food, bestselling author Geneen Roth adds a powerful new dimension to her work in Women Food and God. She begins with her most basic concept: The way you eat is inseparable from your core beliefs about being alive. Your relationship with food is an exact mirror of your feelings about love, fear, anger, meaning, transformation and, yes, even God. Nonviolent Communication by Marshall Rosenberg In this internationally acclaimed text, Marshall Rosenberg offers insightful stories, anecdotes, practical exercises and role-plays that will dramatically change your approach to communication for the better. Discover how the language you use can strengthen your relationships, build trust, prevent conflicts and heal pain. Health At Every Size: The Surprising Truth About Your Weight By Linda Bacon Fat isn’t the problem. Dieting is the problem. A society that rejects anyone whose body shape or size doesn’t match an impossible ideal is the problem. A medical establishment that equates “thin” with “healthy” is the problem. Tune in to your body’s expert guidance. Find the joy in movement. Eat what you want, when you want, choosing pleasurable foods that help you to feel good. You too can feel great in your body right now—and Health at Every Size will show you how. Health at Every Size has been scientifically proven to boost health and self-esteem. The program was evaluated in a government-funded academic study, its data published in well-respected scientific journals. |
Don't Diet, Live it Workbook; Healing Food, Weight & Body Issues
by Andrea Watcher & Marsea Marcus This unique workbook is full of in-depth information, moving personal stories and insightful writing exercises to help people understand and resolve their food, weight and body image issues. Its sensitive insights teach readers how to be at peace with their bodies. Individuals and groups, world-wide, are using The Don't Diet, Live-It Workbook as a healing guide and now you can too! Food and Feelings by Karen R. Koenig An extraordinary, powerful connection exists between feeling and feeding that, if damaged, may lead to one relying on food for emotional support, rather than seeking authentic happiness. This unique workbook takes on the seven emotions that plague problem eaters — guilt, shame, helplessness, anxiety, disappointment, confusion, and loneliness — and shows readers how to embrace and learn from their feelings. Eating By the Light of The Moon by Anita Johnston Johnston’s book spirals deeply into the core issues that any woman coping with disordered eating would want to address, and she does it with a gentle, patient, and encouraging spirit. Her work uses myth, allegory and storytelling as a way of looking at the deep-seated issues of what it means to be a woman in today’s culture and how that affects our relationships with food. Daring Greatly by Brene Brown Every day we experience the uncertainty, risks, and emotional exposure that define what it means to be vulnerable or to dare greatly. Based on twelve years of pioneering research, Brené Brown PhD, LMSW, dispels the cultural myth that vulnerability is weakness and argues that it is, in truth, our most accurate measure of courage. You Are The One You've Been Waiting For by Richard Schwartz In this book, Richard Schwartz, the developer of the Internal Family Systems Model, applies the IFS Model to the topic of intimate relationships in an engaging, understandable, and personal style. Therapists and lay people alike will find this book to be an insightful exploration of how cultivating a relationship with the Self—the wise center of clarity, calmness, and compassion in each of us—creates the foundation for courageous love and resilient intimacy Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life by Steven Hayes Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) is a new, scientifically based psychotherapy that takes a fresh look at why we suffer and even what it means to be mentally healthy. What if pain were a normal, unavoidable part of the human condition, but avoiding or trying to control painful experience were the cause of suffering and long-term problems that can devastate your quality of life? The ACT process hinges on this distinction between pain and suffering. |
pODCasts
ED Matters
ED Matters: The Gurze/Salucore podcast airing once a week where we interview the top experts in the field of eating disorders, sharing information for individuals recovering from eating disorders, their loved ones, clinicians in the field, and other individuals, professional or otherwise seeking to learn about eating disorders. Healthy conversations about eating disorders.
ED Matters: The Gurze/Salucore podcast airing once a week where we interview the top experts in the field of eating disorders, sharing information for individuals recovering from eating disorders, their loved ones, clinicians in the field, and other individuals, professional or otherwise seeking to learn about eating disorders. Healthy conversations about eating disorders.
Food Psych
This podcast calls out diet culture for the life thief that it is, and challenges it in all its sneaky forms—including the restrictive behaviors that often masquerade as wellness and fitness. Launched in 2013, Food Psych is now one of iTunes' top 100 Health podcasts and the world's leading anti-diet podcast.
Recovery Warriors
Motivation and inspiration for your journey to recovery from an eating disorder. Host Jessica Flint interviews recovery warriors and treatment professionals from around the world to get their unique perspective and advice on what it takes to heal your relationship to food and body. This show is for all types of eating disorders: anorexia, bulimia, binge eating, and disordered eating.
This podcast calls out diet culture for the life thief that it is, and challenges it in all its sneaky forms—including the restrictive behaviors that often masquerade as wellness and fitness. Launched in 2013, Food Psych is now one of iTunes' top 100 Health podcasts and the world's leading anti-diet podcast.
Recovery Warriors
Motivation and inspiration for your journey to recovery from an eating disorder. Host Jessica Flint interviews recovery warriors and treatment professionals from around the world to get their unique perspective and advice on what it takes to heal your relationship to food and body. This show is for all types of eating disorders: anorexia, bulimia, binge eating, and disordered eating.
Community Mental Health Resources
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NAMI Santa Cruz www.namiscc.org/
NAMI Santa Cruz County offers practical experience, support, education, comfort and understanding to anyone concerned about mental illnesses and their treatment. In addition, they work with public and private organizations to increase knowledge of effective ways of treating the illnesses while advocating for improved services for individuals with mental illness. The Diversity Center of Santa Cruz http://www.diversitycenter.org/ The Diversity Center was founded in 1989 as the Santa Cruz Lesbian and Gay Community Center to advance the causes and priorities of the lesbian and gay community in Santa Cruz County. Over the years, the Center has grown in scope, budget, and staff, and now serves the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and questioning (LGBTQ+) community of Santa Cruz County. They offer a wide variety of programs and training to support teens, families, and schools on issues of gender, sexuality, acceptance, and overcoming discrimination. Mental Health Client Action Network of Santa Cruz County http://www.mhcan.org/ The Mental Health Client Action Network is a peer-run organization dedicated to: provide mutual support and networking, have a voice in all matters which affect us, create programs controlled by peers advocate for the right to choose our own life paths, to educate the public from our own perspective, to work to eradicate treatment disparities and confront discrimination. |
Survivors Healing Center
http://fsa-cc.org/wp41/survivors-healing-center/ Survivors Healing Center offers group therapy to survivors of childhood sexual abuse. They help empower men and women through a therapeutic healing process and work to prevent sexual abuse of children in our community through outreach and education. Family Service Agency of the Central Coast Suicide Prevention Service 24 hour toll-free Suicide Crisis Line: 1-877-ONE-LIFE / 1-877-663-5433 http://fsa-cc.org/wp41/suicide-prevention-service/. If you are a resident of Monterey, Santa Cruz, or San Benito Counties, call you can call the 24-hour toll free, multilingual suicide crisis line. Callers will talk to someone who is compassionate, supportive, and accepting of anyone experiencing suicidal thoughts or a general life crisis. In addition to the confidential suicide crisis line, you can call the administrative line at (831) 459-9373 to arrange for community education, set up trainings for service providers, or learn about bereavement support for someone who has lost a loved one to suicide. |
Community Mental Health Resources
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NAMI San Francisco
https://www.namisf.org/find-support At the heart of NAMI San Francisco's mission is the sharing of information and striving to end the stigma associated with mental illness. To this end, we offer a Helpline, support groups, educational meetings, newsletters, and a number of educational classes on mental illness held at various locations throughout the city. HealthRIGHT 360 https://www.healthright360.org/ HealthRIGHT 360 is a family of integrated health programs that provides compassionate care and treatment to over 38,000 individuals a year through more than 70 distinct and culturally competent programs in 13 California counties. Services include: Social Support & Re-entry Substance Use Disorder Treatment Primary Medical Care Mental Health Services San Francisco Suicide Prevention www.sfsuicide.org San Francisco Suicide Prevention is the oldest community-based telephone crisis center in the United States, founded in 1962 by Bernard Mayes, a journalist from the British Broadcasting Corporation. To this day, the agency trains local volunteers who provide suicide prevention and crisis intervention services to callers, over 500 other crisis centers across the United States now utilize the same concept. THE SF LGBT CENTER http://www.sfcenter.org/the-center The mission of the SF LGBT Center is to connect our diverse community to opportunities, resources and each other to achieve our vision of a stronger, healthier, and more equitable world for LGBT people and our allies. When visitors arrive at the Center, they find free services like career counseling, job fairs, computer lab, social activities, mentorships, youth meals, daycare, various workshops and much more. Here they can connect with other LGBT people and organize to secure our equal rights. The Center is truly the heart, home and hands of the San Francisco LGBT community. |
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TransLife https://www.sfaf.org/programs/translife/ TransLife is an inclusive group of multiracial, male and female transgender, old and young, at many stages of transition. TransLife is a group for people looking for support for issues related to gender, identity, sexuality, drugs, sex work, hormone therapy, gender surgery and HIV. They welcome allies, friends and others who wish to learn and grow with the transgender community. Mental Health Board of San Francisco http://www.mhbsf.org/resources/ The Mental Health Board is a state mandated group of citizens who advise the Board of Supervisors and the Mental Health Director about funding, services, and policy as they relate to mental health in San Francisco. This mission of the Mental Health Board of San Francisco represents and ensures the inclusion of the diverse voices of consumers, citizens, and stakeholders in advising how mental health services are administered and provided. Through its state and city mandates, the Mental Health Board advises, reviews, advocates, and educates; with the aim of having that advice integrated, incorporated, and reflected in implementation of mental health policy; with the ultimate goal of ensuring quality mental health services. The Mental Health Board meets monthly and meetings are open to the public. Call (415) 255-2474 for meeting information. Association for Professionals Treating Eating Disorders (APTED) http://www.aptedsf.org/ The Association of Professionals Treating Eating Disorders (APTED) is a non-profit organization comprised of a loose affiliation of professionals working in the Eating Disorder field. They offer training and networking opportunities for professionals, support and referrals to professionals of other disciplines as well as support, referrals and direct service to those in recovery from eating disorders. |
What does it mean to be a supporter? Sometimes it means just listening, sometimes it means giving space, sometimes it means taking action. Whether you are supporting a child, a friend, a sibling, a partner or a parent, there are resources available to help guide your unique support journey.
BOOKS & PODCASTS
Help Your Teenager Beat an ED
Surviving an ED- Family & Friends
Skills Based Learning for Supporters
Food Chaining
Your Dieting Daughter
The Transgender Teen: A Handbook for Parents & Professionals Supporting Transgender & Non-Binary Teens
How to Nourish Your Child Through an Eating Disorder
ED Matters
Food Psych
Recovery Dad & Recovery Girl
Surviving an ED- Family & Friends
Skills Based Learning for Supporters
Food Chaining
Your Dieting Daughter
The Transgender Teen: A Handbook for Parents & Professionals Supporting Transgender & Non-Binary Teens
How to Nourish Your Child Through an Eating Disorder
ED Matters
Food Psych
Recovery Dad & Recovery Girl
WEBSITES, ONLINE TOOLS & ARTICLES
NEDA Parent Toolkit
NEDA Supporter Resources
NEDA Blog
NEDA Screening tool
Tips for Supporters
Tips for Parents
Santa Clara Transfamily Support
Descentering the narrative: Trans Folks, Body Image, and EDs
5 Ways to Help A Partner with an Eating Disorder
F.E.A.S.T.
RAIN| the nation's largest anti-sexual violence organization
NEDA Supporter Resources
NEDA Blog
NEDA Screening tool
Tips for Supporters
Tips for Parents
Santa Clara Transfamily Support
Descentering the narrative: Trans Folks, Body Image, and EDs
5 Ways to Help A Partner with an Eating Disorder
F.E.A.S.T.
RAIN| the nation's largest anti-sexual violence organization
sUPPORT GROUPS FOR SUPPORTERS
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Eating Disorder Specific Groups
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Groups for Supporting Transgender and Non-Binary Teens/Young Adults
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