Healing binge eating, sugar addiction, bulimia, food addiction, obesity, chronic dieting and more can feel overwhelming, as there are several layers of healing that are occurring at the same time – physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual. To heal we need to care for and attend to all the layers.
To help guide you, we’ve assembled a list of resources that have been helpful to Karly and other women at First Ourselves. Please use your best judgment in finding the resources that are the best fit for you.
Nutritional support and physiological healing:
- Body ecology diet, Donna Gates, help with candida and digestion
- Weston A. Price foundation
- Gut and Psychology Syndrome by Dr. Natasha Campbell McBride
- The Specific Carbohydrate Diet by Elaine Gottschall
- Dr. Julia Ross, author of The Mood Cure and The Food Cure; specializes in helping heal the brain with nutritional supplements
- Dr. Amen, healing the physical brain
- Joan Matthews Larsen, author of Depression Free Naturally, healing the brain with nutrition and supplements
- Ann Louise Gittleman, author of several best selling books
- Gary Taubes, science writer
- the Livin’ La Vida Low Carb podcast – interviews with top authors
- Dr. Mercola
Nutrition/health books:
- Chakra Foods for Optimum Health by Deanna Minich
- Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser
- Mindless Eating: Why We Eat More than We Think by Brian Wansink
- The Crazy Makers: How the Food Industry is Destroying Our Brains and Harming Our Children by Carol Simontacchi
- The Slow Down Diet by Marc David
- Ultra Metabolism by Mark Hyman
- The End of Overeating by David Kessler
- Anatomy of a Food Addiction by Anne Katherine
Mindful eating:
- Eat by Choice, Not by Habit by Sylvia Haskvitz
- Eating with Fierce Kindness by Sasha Loring
- The Zen of Eating by Ronna Kabatznick
Sugar addiction support:
- Beat Sugar Addiction Now! by Jacob Teitelbaum
- Get the Sugar Out: 501 Simple Ways to Cut the Sugar Out of Any Diet by Ann Louise Gittleman
- Lick the Sugar Habit by Nancy Appleton
- Little Sugar Addicts by Kathleen Des Maisons
- Potatoes Not Prozac by Kathleen Des Maisons
- Sugar Blues by William Duffy
- Sugar Shock! by Connie Bennett
Alternative/holistic healing resources:
Emotional healing:
- Tara Brach, meditation teacher, author, Radical Acceptance
- Jack Kornfield, author, psychotherapist, meditation teacher
- Pema Chodron, Buddhist teacher
- Insight meditation
- Transcendental meditation
- Marshall Rosenberg, creator, nonviolent communication
Psychological healing – mindfulness, slowing down, self kindness:
- Abby Seixas, author, therapist, workshop leader on slowing down, Finding the Deep River Within
- Kristin Neff, author, Self Compassion, researcher on self compassion
- Rick Hanson, author, meditation teacher
- Sharon Salzberg, author, meditation teacher
Psychological healing – attachment/relationships:
- Dr. Gordon Neufeld, attachment theorist, developmental psychologist, author, Hold Onto Your Kids
- Dr. Gabor Mate, physician, addiction specialist, author of several books
- Dr. Sue Johnson, author, attachment theorist focusing on intimate relationship
- Imago therapy, Dr. Harville Hendrix
Psychological healing – intution, listening:
- Clarissa Pinkola Estes
- Mona Lisa Schulz, medical intuitive
Psychological support, high sensitivity:
- Elaine Aron, author, The Highly Sensitive Person
- Judith Orloff, author, psychotherapist
- Elisabeth Fitzhugh, author, Dancers Beyond Realms
Psychological healing – shame:
- Dr. Brene Brown, shame researcher, author
Spiritual healing:
- Rumi
- Wayne Muller, minister, therapist
- Danna Faulds
- Mary Oliver
- Hafiz
- David Whyte
- John O’ Donohue
