Internet fiend that I am, I could hardly ignore the interwebs as a potential source of good body-image medicine for myself, and having done the finding, why not share?
Also stuck a few favorite relevant books on at the end.
If you know of something that should be on this list but isn't, please drop me a comment!
Body image:
- Already Pretty
- Operation Beautiful
- REVOLUTION OF REAL WOMEN flickr pool
- rvxn
- Sociological Images
- Weightless
- You Are Remarkable
Eating disorder recovery:
Recovery support:
- MentorCONNECT: mentorship and moderated forums for eating disorder recovery
- We Bite Back: "post-pro-ana" site and forum
Blog posts:
- Empty Bellies Do Not Beget Genius
- How Do You Embrace & Celebrate Your Body?
- How To Practice Major Mega Supreme Body Love...Daily!
- It's All Good. No, Really. *All* of It.
- How to Survive a Case of The Uglies
- Another Reminder
- 50 Ways to Soothe Yourself Without Food, by Susan Albers
- Intuitive Eating, by Evelyn Tribole and Elyse Resch
- North of Beautiful, by Justina Chen Headley
- Traveling Mercies, by Anne Lamott
- The Beauty Myth, by Naomi Wolf
- The Good Body, by Eve Ensler
- Life Inside the "Thin" Cage, by Constance Rhodes
- The Diet Survivor's Handbook, by Judith Matz and Ellen Frankel
- Shannon Cutts' list of nonfiction recovery books
- Sui's list of 8 books to transform your body image and eating
And on Twitter, my list of recovery/body image tweeters.
Why thank you for including me on such an illustrious list :)
ReplyDeletePoppy - Would have included your "sensible" blog if there were anything left of it! Haha.
ReplyDeleteHello, you are fast becoming one of my favourite bloggers! At the moment I am reading Eve Ensler - The Good Body which is all sorts of short stories about body image and pretty amazing I think:)
ReplyDeleteThe Pieces - Oh, thank you so much! :D I've added that to the list. Now I need to get my act together and finally read some Ensler!
ReplyDeleteAlso have a look at Operation Beautiful dot com, and You are Remarkable dot wordpress dot com :)
ReplyDeleteAnonymous - Thanks! Have added. May have to join the project myself...:)
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