**Life Without Ed: A Personal Recovery Experience**

For me, Life Without Ed was such a significant book in my personal recovery when I was an inpatient for 3 days. All I did was read this book over and over again, it was truly an anchor for me. There were so many things I took away from this book that I still carry with me today, like giving a name to your eating disorder. I call mine Anna because of Jenny Schaefer. I wrote my declaration of independence from Anna and had a bunch of people in my support circle sign it. Unfortunately, I no longer have it, but these books were such stable stepping stones to my recovery.

I truly believe that these books are super important for anyone to read who is looking to educate themselves more about eating disorders or looking for their own personal help or looking to help somebody in their life that may be dealing with this. These books are fantastic reads and I would totally recommend them for the rest of my life because I think they are such important books for your collection of eating disorder books.

**Crave: A Book on Binge Eating Disorder**

The final book on my list is actually one I just recently finished, this month in preparation for this video, and that is Crave by Cynthia M. Bullock. You may have noticed a big eating disorder that was missing from the eating sweater literature goes, specifically with fiction, uh you may have noticed a big eating disorder that was missing from there is binge eating disorder. I knew I wanted to have a book in this recommendations video and I wanted to read it for myself about binge eating disorder and I felt a non-fiction book would be of great help to me although I've suffered from anorexia for half of my life, I'm no stranger to binge eating and I really do understand how destructive that behavior can be.

So, I personally got so much out of crave. The number one thing I took away from this book was information, because it was so educational, it's so well written to the point where you're learning so much and not even feel like it's dragged down. I personally don't read a lot of non-fiction, I'm very scared that it's not going to hold my interest but this one definitely did. I learned a lot about binge eating disorder and binge eating in general and there were also a lot of great tips and kind of self-reflective moments in this book that I really took away from it.

There's a lot of sections on this book that help you personally identify what type of Binger you are, what are your triggers, what situations cause you to binge the most, and what is going to help you stop. This book was just such an introspective read for me, it really made me look at myself and my own personal relationship with food. I honestly took so much out of it that I feel much more confident going into my day now, specifically because of everything I took away from this book.

**The Importance of Representation in Eating Disorder Literature**

One thing I want to note about Crave is there's kind of a heavy focus on binge eating disorder and obesity. Not anyone who binge eats or suffers from binge eating disorder is going to be overweight or needs to lose weight, and there are certain passages that are very heavily focused on maintaining a healthy weight, losing weight, and keeping that weight off, and the dangers of obesity. While these are all really important things, if you're somebody like me who has an issue with losing weight, you might want to skip those passages because I definitely did.

However, otherwise this book was absolutely fantastic. I took a lot out of it and um it was actually recommended to me by a lot of you guys when I said I was looking for binge eating disorder books, and so I'm really, really thankful that I read it.

**Eating Disorder Book Recommendations**

These are just a few of my eating book recommendations, there are so many other books out there that I cannot wait to read. I loved each and every one of these. I would love to know your thoughts on if you've read any of them, if you're planning on reading any of them after this video or if you have any eating disorder books that you'd like to recommend to me because I would love some more books about something that I can really relate to that I would love to talk about on my channel.

That is it for my video on eating sweater book recommendations. I am really excited for Nita week this year, I'm super excited to keep fighting stigma and spreading awareness for eating disorders as if I don't every other day but specifically because it is a week dedicated to Bringing awareness to talking about these issues and to maybe helping others that might be in that situation.

So, thank you guys so much for watching, and I will see you soon for a new video.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhey what's up hello my name is Emma and today is National eating disorder awareness week I have been so pumped for this week for months I got my needle shirt on and I am ready to go if you did not know I have been battling an eating disorder for the past decade of my life since I was 11 years old and I've been in recovery for it for about 5 or 6 years now obviously the national Eating Disorders Association has been a huge part of my life I actually went to the last needle walk in October in New York City and it was the greatest experience and I actually got to meet all of Nita's staff at a breakfast following the fundraiser and it was just like the most amazing experience in honor of this week I have left some information below about Nita the natural Eating Disorders Association as well as other Pages related to eating disorders if you'd like to increase your knowledge so for today's video as I am an Avid Reader I wanted to share some of my favorite en sweater books with you guys and recommend them to you I have four ya fiction novels as well as three non-fiction kind of self-help books on this list that I would like to recommend to you guys if you are somebody who is dealing with an eating disorder yourself or you're somebody who somebody in your life has been dealing with this or even if you just like to increase your knowledge and maybe hear more about stories of people who have suffered from this I really hope that you got at least one good book recommendation out of this video but of course as we are talking about a sensitive topic I do just want to place a trigger warning for all these books because they do obviously deal with eating disorders these books approach these topics at a variety of different levels there are someone here that might be very triggering for you there there or some that might not be triggering at all so I ask if you're interested in any of these books and would like to read them for yourself I would just recommend being wary trying to evaluate yourself and reaching out to any help service if you feel triggered by the nature of the content so without further Ado here are some of my eating dis sweater book recommendations the first one on this list is winter Girls by Lorie Hall Anderson this book follows a girl named Leah who suffers from anorexia and recently her friend Cassie who is also dealing with another eating disorder bulimia has just recently passed away so in addition to Leah's illness she's also dealing with the grief of one of her past closest friends this one has been recommended to me like a million times over and I'm so happy I finally read it because I just absolutely loved this book with all of my heart it really captured what it's like to be in the mind of somebody who deals with anorexia as that's something I've dealt with myself it really delves into the bitterness and anger and coldheartedness that can come from experiencing this but it also dealt with the need for help it really delves into how destructive this illness can be and I am so appreciative that it exists because I related to it on such a personal level like I said this book is really explicit when it comes to describing the thoughts somebody with an eating disoder might feel so I would put a very high trigger warning on this one but nonetheless I think it is such an important book and if you are looking to understand what it's really like to be in the head of somebody who is dealing with this I would recommend it and put it at like the top of my recommendations list next book I have here is very similar to Winter girls and because I know winter girls is a very popular book about eating disorders many people have read it I think think if you liked winter girls you would definitely like paper weight by Meg hasten this is a book about a girl named Stevie who is suffering from bulimia and her parents have sent her off to this like 60-day Treatment Center miles and miles away from home like many of us who enter eating disorder treatment she does not want to be there she doesn't think she's sick she just wants to keep going until she disappears this experience is going to be hard enough on Stevie but she's actually approaching the one-year anniversary of the day her brother died which she blames herself for and she plans on committing suicide before the end of her treatment so a very very heavy book but nonetheless again I feel it is just so authentic and raw this was the first fictitious novel about an eating disorder that I've ever read and I've never felt so identified in my life as I did at that moment there were just so many points in this book where I was like I can't believe other people felt these things thought these things did these things it really made me feel like I wasn't alone during that time when I was suffering so badly again the language is very descriptive and I would put it at the same kind of high trigger warning as winter girls but I feel like sometimes the rawness that can come from a story that is so explicit and graphic can really complement it in a positive way and what I love about both of these stories is things don't end in a pretty wrapped bow because when you're dealing with an eating disorder recovery is just the first step to getting better it's not like you enter treatment and everything is okay it's something that still torments you for years to come and you have to constantly work at it and I feel like these books just end at a perfect point to promote people to go into recovery and I just really love that about these two books I think they're really similar which is why I like to group them together but if you liked one you will love the other the next one on here I am super excited to talk about cuz it's not one of the more mainstream eating disorder books but that is not otherwise specified by Hannah moscowitz first few things I loved about this book number one it follows a black teen which is like totally unheard of in eating disorder media for some reason everyone always thinks it's skinny white girls but it's not eating disorders affect all ethnicities all genders all sexualities which leads into my second point that this is also about a bisexual so we get some lgbtqia plus representation which is equally as important so if you're looking for an osota wreck that is hella diverse I would recommend not otherwise specified this book follows a teen named Eda who is currently recovering from what is known as otherwise specified feeding or eating disorder or previously known as eating disorder not otherwise specified Eda is a ex ballerina who's still currently dancing and she's going through the motions of her group therapy sessions essentially AA feels like she doesn't fit in anywhere her friend group is not very accepting of her sexuality as it differs from theirs she doesn't feel like she's sick enough and she feels like she's not reaching her dancing potential because B is too triggering for her so in eda's eating disorder group therapy session she meets this 14-year-old girl named Bianca who is obviously very sick and Eda and Bianca form this unlikely friendship through their situations I think my absolute favorite thing about this book is it's a book I have been searching for for years now for the longest time I have been saying I want a book about somebody who is dealing with an anos who who has gone into recovery who has started the treatment process and while they're on their way to getting better and developing a more healthy relationship with food they are still dealing with their eating disorder we have so many books about individuals with eating disorders who are either not in treatment yet or they are really resentful of entering treatment and it always seems to stop right after they enter treatment for the first time as somebody who has been in treatment for 5 years and is still recovering I had not found my story until this one it was so refreshing to see my present mindset reflected into a book instead of my 14-year-old mindset and I just can't tell you what an amazing feeling it was to feel just that identified like I was really reading my present feelings it was just so emotional for me like I truly feel like I'm changed I review my recovery differently because of Eda story as trigger warnings go I don't think that otherwise specified is as triggering as books like paper weight or winter girls it might be different for you and I want to enforce that my experience is reading these books are not going to be the same as yours but I feel like this book truly did a great job of describing what it's like to suffer from an eating disorder in recovery specifically without making you want to revert to those old feelings or putting them back in your head and that's like super important to me when it comes to eating disorder literature this book was just so great I would highly highly recommend it I think it's a story that everyone could benefit from Reading because there's so much diversity in it and at a story is just truly one that is going to motivate and inspire you and I just couldn't be happier with this book and so the final why a fiction book on this list actually comes out this week during Neato week it comes out on February 28th and that is sad Perfect by Stephanie Elliot I will be posting a review of this on the release date so if you wait around a couple days you'll hear all of my thoughts on this book the real reason why I want to recommend this on this list is because it deals with a individual who is suffering from arfid or known as avoidant restrictive food intake disorder if you aren't very familiar with the different denominations of Eating Disorders you might not even know that exists which is why I am so happy this book is going to be on shelves arfa's kind of different from a lot of Eating Disorders you might have heard about previously like anorexia bulimia or osfed it's primarily focused around individuals who feel they are incapable of eating certain foods like the thought of different foods whether it's based on texture color taste anything of that Sora gives them so much anxiety that they cannot eat certain foods it's extremely intrusive it's as serious as any other eating disorder but most people don't know about it because it's a fairly new diagnosis so this book follows 16-year-old Pia who has recently been diagnosed with arit and she is just so ecstatic to finally know what she has felt has been wrong with her for her entire life she's excited to enter recovery which is like the greatest thing you could possibly put in an eating disorder book she really wants to get better and that's amazing now Pia is also on depression and anxiety medication from a previous hospitalization but she recently meets this boy named Ben and Ben and Pia grow madly in love very very quickly like a lot of teenagers do and as a result of that Pia stops taking her medication because she feels so happy and she feels feels so much better around Ben that she feels she doesn't need them anymore which is a really really bad thing and so this book takes us through the course of the repercussions of P's actions of placing somebody else above her own mental health which is the entire point of the novel and I love that I really really loved this book I was able to see so much of myself and Pia in our similar food relationships even though I don't suffer from arfid what's really amazing about it to me is this opened my eyes to a lot of the unhealthy eating habits I still carry with me and after reading this book I was able to go to my therapist and we talked about a lot of those and as a result of reading this book I was able to eat a certain food I hadn't allowed myself to eat for my entire life in 21 years of existence and that is just like the most amazing thing for me and I'm getting emotional thinking about it because it just it makes me so proud to know that this is something I was able to do and it really was because of this book as triggers go for this book I personally did not find this book very triggering but again I don't have arfid so I can't tell you how it would affect you personally the way Pia describes certain foods are the type of authenticity and rawness I like to see in books about e disorders but they might provide to be triggering for other individuals because I do know there was one person that was very very triggered by this novel and that goes for all of these again I cannot tell you how you are going to interpret this book which is why I ask you to proceed with caution I do just want to place a trigger warning for self harm on this book though because it's not explicitly stated in the synopsis and it's something I feel you guys should know but overall I'm just so happy sad perfect exists I've had people over over the years asking me for recommendations about arfid and for so long I had to tell them I don't have any books for you I'm very sorry I finally have one and I am so excited to recommend it to those three individuals who have reached out to me and to any of you who are interested in reading this novel but I loved sad perfect it's a story that is going to be very close to my heart for a very long time and I'm happy I read it so these conclude my 4 ya mental health fiction works and as for everything in this video all the good reads links for these books will be in the description of this video if you'd like to find out more about them but now I have three non-fiction works I do want to share with you guys I think if you truly want to educate yourself on an issue like eating disorders it's important that while we consume fiction that would make us very happy and still be very enlightening we should also read some non-fiction so the first two non-fiction books I have are actually from the same author and that is life without Ed and goodbye Ed hello me both by Jenny Schaefer these are essentially Memoir SL self-help books about a woman who has been dealing with an E orderer for like 20 to 30 years now these books are basically filled with different anecdotes of Jenny's life about different significant moments in her eating disorder and Recovery treatment they also include a lot of helpful exercises and coping strategies that can help you through this time of recovering from your eating disorder or breaking off your relationship with Ed I have to say life without that Ed specifically was such a significant book in my personal recovery when I was an inpatient for 3 days all I did was read life without Ed over and over and over again it was truly an anchor for me there were so many things I took away from from this book that I still carry with me today like giving a name to your eating your soda and I call mine Anna because of Jenny Schaefer I wrote my declaration of independence from Anna and I had a bunch of people in my support Circle sign it and I really wish I still had it but these books were such stable Stepping Stones to my recovery from me and I think that they are super important for anyone to read who is looking to educate themselves more who is looking for their own personal help or looking to help somebody in their life that may be dealing with this really really fantastic reads I would totally recommend these for the rest of my life because I think they are such important books for you to have to your collection of eating disorder books and the final book on my list is actually one I just recently finished this month in preparation for this video and that is crave why you binge and had a stop by Cynthia M bulock so as eating your sweater literature goes specifically with fiction uh you may have noticed a big eating disorder that was missing from there is binge eating disorder so I knew I wanted to have a book in this recommendations video and I wanted to read it for myself about binge eating disorder and I felt a non-fiction book would be of great help to me although I've suffered from anorexia for half of my life I'm no stranger to binge eating and I really do understand how destructive that behavior can be so I really felt it would be important for me not only to read this book to get something out of it but also to recommend it to you guys who may not see as much representation for a disorder you or somebody you know might be suffering from I personally got so much out of crave like the number one thing I took away from this book was information because it was so educational it's so well written to the point where you're you're learning so much and not even feel like it's dragged down like I personally don't read a lot of non-fiction I'm very scared that it's not going to hold my interest but this one definitely did I learned a lot about binge eating disorder and binge eating in general and there were also a lot of great tips and kind of self-reflective moments in this book that I really took away from it there's a lot of sections on this book that help you personally identify what type of Binger you are what are your triggers what situations cause you to binge the most and what is going to help you the most stop this book was just such an introspective read for me it really made me look at myself and my own personal relationship with food and I honestly took so much out of it that I feel much more confident going into my day now specifically because of everything I took away from this book the one thing I do want to note about it is there is kind of a heavy focus of binging disorder and obesity not anyone who binge eats or suffers from binging disorder is going to be overweight or needs to lose weight and there are certain passages that are very heavily focused on maintaining a healthy weight on losing weight and keeping that weight off and the dangers of obesity while those are all really important things if you're somebody like me who has an issue with losing weight you might want to skip those passages cuz I definitely did but otherwise this book was absolutely fantastic I took a lot out of it and um it was actually recommended to me by a lot of you guys when I said I was looking for bingi diser books and so I'm really really thankful I read it so these are just a few of my eting S book recommendations there are so many other books out there that I cannot wait to read I loved each and every one of these I would love to know your thoughts on if you've read any of them if you're planning on reading any of them after after this recommendations video or if you have any eating dis s books that you'd like to recommend to me because I would love some more books about something that I can really relate to that I would love to talk about on my channel but that is it for my video on eating sweer book recommendations I am really excited for Nita week this year I'm super excited to keep fighting stigma and spreading awareness for eating disorders as if I don't every other day but specifically because it is a week dedicated to Bringing awareness to talking about these issues and to maybe helping others that might be in that situation so that is it for this video thank you guys so much for watching and I will see you soon for a new video byehey what's up hello my name is Emma and today is National eating disorder awareness week I have been so pumped for this week for months I got my needle shirt on and I am ready to go if you did not know I have been battling an eating disorder for the past decade of my life since I was 11 years old and I've been in recovery for it for about 5 or 6 years now obviously the national Eating Disorders Association has been a huge part of my life I actually went to the last needle walk in October in New York City and it was the greatest experience and I actually got to meet all of Nita's staff at a breakfast following the fundraiser and it was just like the most amazing experience in honor of this week I have left some information below about Nita the natural Eating Disorders Association as well as other Pages related to eating disorders if you'd like to increase your knowledge so for today's video as I am an Avid Reader I wanted to share some of my favorite en sweater books with you guys and recommend them to you I have four ya fiction novels as well as three non-fiction kind of self-help books on this list that I would like to recommend to you guys if you are somebody who is dealing with an eating disorder yourself or you're somebody who somebody in your life has been dealing with this or even if you just like to increase your knowledge and maybe hear more about stories of people who have suffered from this I really hope that you got at least one good book recommendation out of this video but of course as we are talking about a sensitive topic I do just want to place a trigger warning for all these books because they do obviously deal with eating disorders these books approach these topics at a variety of different levels there are someone here that might be very triggering for you there there or some that might not be triggering at all so I ask if you're interested in any of these books and would like to read them for yourself I would just recommend being wary trying to evaluate yourself and reaching out to any help service if you feel triggered by the nature of the content so without further Ado here are some of my eating dis sweater book recommendations the first one on this list is winter Girls by Lorie Hall Anderson this book follows a girl named Leah who suffers from anorexia and recently her friend Cassie who is also dealing with another eating disorder bulimia has just recently passed away so in addition to Leah's illness she's also dealing with the grief of one of her past closest friends this one has been recommended to me like a million times over and I'm so happy I finally read it because I just absolutely loved this book with all of my heart it really captured what it's like to be in the mind of somebody who deals with anorexia as that's something I've dealt with myself it really delves into the bitterness and anger and coldheartedness that can come from experiencing this but it also dealt with the need for help it really delves into how destructive this illness can be and I am so appreciative that it exists because I related to it on such a personal level like I said this book is really explicit when it comes to describing the thoughts somebody with an eating disoder might feel so I would put a very high trigger warning on this one but nonetheless I think it is such an important book and if you are looking to understand what it's really like to be in the head of somebody who is dealing with this I would recommend it and put it at like the top of my recommendations list next book I have here is very similar to Winter girls and because I know winter girls is a very popular book about eating disorders many people have read it I think think if you liked winter girls you would definitely like paper weight by Meg hasten this is a book about a girl named Stevie who is suffering from bulimia and her parents have sent her off to this like 60-day Treatment Center miles and miles away from home like many of us who enter eating disorder treatment she does not want to be there she doesn't think she's sick she just wants to keep going until she disappears this experience is going to be hard enough on Stevie but she's actually approaching the one-year anniversary of the day her brother died which she blames herself for and she plans on committing suicide before the end of her treatment so a very very heavy book but nonetheless again I feel it is just so authentic and raw this was the first fictitious novel about an eating disorder that I've ever read and I've never felt so identified in my life as I did at that moment there were just so many points in this book where I was like I can't believe other people felt these things thought these things did these things it really made me feel like I wasn't alone during that time when I was suffering so badly again the language is very descriptive and I would put it at the same kind of high trigger warning as winter girls but I feel like sometimes the rawness that can come from a story that is so explicit and graphic can really complement it in a positive way and what I love about both of these stories is things don't end in a pretty wrapped bow because when you're dealing with an eating disorder recovery is just the first step to getting better it's not like you enter treatment and everything is okay it's something that still torments you for years to come and you have to constantly work at it and I feel like these books just end at a perfect point to promote people to go into recovery and I just really love that about these two books I think they're really similar which is why I like to group them together but if you liked one you will love the other the next one on here I am super excited to talk about cuz it's not one of the more mainstream eating disorder books but that is not otherwise specified by Hannah moscowitz first few things I loved about this book number one it follows a black teen which is like totally unheard of in eating disorder media for some reason everyone always thinks it's skinny white girls but it's not eating disorders affect all ethnicities all genders all sexualities which leads into my second point that this is also about a bisexual so we get some lgbtqia plus representation which is equally as important so if you're looking for an osota wreck that is hella diverse I would recommend not otherwise specified this book follows a teen named Eda who is currently recovering from what is known as otherwise specified feeding or eating disorder or previously known as eating disorder not otherwise specified Eda is a ex ballerina who's still currently dancing and she's going through the motions of her group therapy sessions essentially AA feels like she doesn't fit in anywhere her friend group is not very accepting of her sexuality as it differs from theirs she doesn't feel like she's sick enough and she feels like she's not reaching her dancing potential because B is too triggering for her so in eda's eating disorder group therapy session she meets this 14-year-old girl named Bianca who is obviously very sick and Eda and Bianca form this unlikely friendship through their situations I think my absolute favorite thing about this book is it's a book I have been searching for for years now for the longest time I have been saying I want a book about somebody who is dealing with an anos who who has gone into recovery who has started the treatment process and while they're on their way to getting better and developing a more healthy relationship with food they are still dealing with their eating disorder we have so many books about individuals with eating disorders who are either not in treatment yet or they are really resentful of entering treatment and it always seems to stop right after they enter treatment for the first time as somebody who has been in treatment for 5 years and is still recovering I had not found my story until this one it was so refreshing to see my present mindset reflected into a book instead of my 14-year-old mindset and I just can't tell you what an amazing feeling it was to feel just that identified like I was really reading my present feelings it was just so emotional for me like I truly feel like I'm changed I review my recovery differently because of Eda story as trigger warnings go I don't think that otherwise specified is as triggering as books like paper weight or winter girls it might be different for you and I want to enforce that my experience is reading these books are not going to be the same as yours but I feel like this book truly did a great job of describing what it's like to suffer from an eating disorder in recovery specifically without making you want to revert to those old feelings or putting them back in your head and that's like super important to me when it comes to eating disorder literature this book was just so great I would highly highly recommend it I think it's a story that everyone could benefit from Reading because there's so much diversity in it and at a story is just truly one that is going to motivate and inspire you and I just couldn't be happier with this book and so the final why a fiction book on this list actually comes out this week during Neato week it comes out on February 28th and that is sad Perfect by Stephanie Elliot I will be posting a review of this on the release date so if you wait around a couple days you'll hear all of my thoughts on this book the real reason why I want to recommend this on this list is because it deals with a individual who is suffering from arfid or known as avoidant restrictive food intake disorder if you aren't very familiar with the different denominations of Eating Disorders you might not even know that exists which is why I am so happy this book is going to be on shelves arfa's kind of different from a lot of Eating Disorders you might have heard about previously like anorexia bulimia or osfed it's primarily focused around individuals who feel they are incapable of eating certain foods like the thought of different foods whether it's based on texture color taste anything of that Sora gives them so much anxiety that they cannot eat certain foods it's extremely intrusive it's as serious as any other eating disorder but most people don't know about it because it's a fairly new diagnosis so this book follows 16-year-old Pia who has recently been diagnosed with arit and she is just so ecstatic to finally know what she has felt has been wrong with her for her entire life she's excited to enter recovery which is like the greatest thing you could possibly put in an eating disorder book she really wants to get better and that's amazing now Pia is also on depression and anxiety medication from a previous hospitalization but she recently meets this boy named Ben and Ben and Pia grow madly in love very very quickly like a lot of teenagers do and as a result of that Pia stops taking her medication because she feels so happy and she feels feels so much better around Ben that she feels she doesn't need them anymore which is a really really bad thing and so this book takes us through the course of the repercussions of P's actions of placing somebody else above her own mental health which is the entire point of the novel and I love that I really really loved this book I was able to see so much of myself and Pia in our similar food relationships even though I don't suffer from arfid what's really amazing about it to me is this opened my eyes to a lot of the unhealthy eating habits I still carry with me and after reading this book I was able to go to my therapist and we talked about a lot of those and as a result of reading this book I was able to eat a certain food I hadn't allowed myself to eat for my entire life in 21 years of existence and that is just like the most amazing thing for me and I'm getting emotional thinking about it because it just it makes me so proud to know that this is something I was able to do and it really was because of this book as triggers go for this book I personally did not find this book very triggering but again I don't have arfid so I can't tell you how it would affect you personally the way Pia describes certain foods are the type of authenticity and rawness I like to see in books about e disorders but they might provide to be triggering for other individuals because I do know there was one person that was very very triggered by this novel and that goes for all of these again I cannot tell you how you are going to interpret this book which is why I ask you to proceed with caution I do just want to place a trigger warning for self harm on this book though because it's not explicitly stated in the synopsis and it's something I feel you guys should know but overall I'm just so happy sad perfect exists I've had people over over the years asking me for recommendations about arfid and for so long I had to tell them I don't have any books for you I'm very sorry I finally have one and I am so excited to recommend it to those three individuals who have reached out to me and to any of you who are interested in reading this novel but I loved sad perfect it's a story that is going to be very close to my heart for a very long time and I'm happy I read it so these conclude my 4 ya mental health fiction works and as for everything in this video all the good reads links for these books will be in the description of this video if you'd like to find out more about them but now I have three non-fiction works I do want to share with you guys I think if you truly want to educate yourself on an issue like eating disorders it's important that while we consume fiction that would make us very happy and still be very enlightening we should also read some non-fiction so the first two non-fiction books I have are actually from the same author and that is life without Ed and goodbye Ed hello me both by Jenny Schaefer these are essentially Memoir SL self-help books about a woman who has been dealing with an E orderer for like 20 to 30 years now these books are basically filled with different anecdotes of Jenny's life about different significant moments in her eating disorder and Recovery treatment they also include a lot of helpful exercises and coping strategies that can help you through this time of recovering from your eating disorder or breaking off your relationship with Ed I have to say life without that Ed specifically was such a significant book in my personal recovery when I was an inpatient for 3 days all I did was read life without Ed over and over and over again it was truly an anchor for me there were so many things I took away from from this book that I still carry with me today like giving a name to your eating your soda and I call mine Anna because of Jenny Schaefer I wrote my declaration of independence from Anna and I had a bunch of people in my support Circle sign it and I really wish I still had it but these books were such stable Stepping Stones to my recovery from me and I think that they are super important for anyone to read who is looking to educate themselves more who is looking for their own personal help or looking to help somebody in their life that may be dealing with this really really fantastic reads I would totally recommend these for the rest of my life because I think they are such important books for you to have to your collection of eating disorder books and the final book on my list is actually one I just recently finished this month in preparation for this video and that is crave why you binge and had a stop by Cynthia M bulock so as eating your sweater literature goes specifically with fiction uh you may have noticed a big eating disorder that was missing from there is binge eating disorder so I knew I wanted to have a book in this recommendations video and I wanted to read it for myself about binge eating disorder and I felt a non-fiction book would be of great help to me although I've suffered from anorexia for half of my life I'm no stranger to binge eating and I really do understand how destructive that behavior can be so I really felt it would be important for me not only to read this book to get something out of it but also to recommend it to you guys who may not see as much representation for a disorder you or somebody you know might be suffering from I personally got so much out of crave like the number one thing I took away from this book was information because it was so educational it's so well written to the point where you're you're learning so much and not even feel like it's dragged down like I personally don't read a lot of non-fiction I'm very scared that it's not going to hold my interest but this one definitely did I learned a lot about binge eating disorder and binge eating in general and there were also a lot of great tips and kind of self-reflective moments in this book that I really took away from it there's a lot of sections on this book that help you personally identify what type of Binger you are what are your triggers what situations cause you to binge the most and what is going to help you the most stop this book was just such an introspective read for me it really made me look at myself and my own personal relationship with food and I honestly took so much out of it that I feel much more confident going into my day now specifically because of everything I took away from this book the one thing I do want to note about it is there is kind of a heavy focus of binging disorder and obesity not anyone who binge eats or suffers from binging disorder is going to be overweight or needs to lose weight and there are certain passages that are very heavily focused on maintaining a healthy weight on losing weight and keeping that weight off and the dangers of obesity while those are all really important things if you're somebody like me who has an issue with losing weight you might want to skip those passages cuz I definitely did but otherwise this book was absolutely fantastic I took a lot out of it and um it was actually recommended to me by a lot of you guys when I said I was looking for bingi diser books and so I'm really really thankful I read it so these are just a few of my eting S book recommendations there are so many other books out there that I cannot wait to read I loved each and every one of these I would love to know your thoughts on if you've read any of them if you're planning on reading any of them after after this recommendations video or if you have any eating dis s books that you'd like to recommend to me because I would love some more books about something that I can really relate to that I would love to talk about on my channel but that is it for my video on eating sweer book recommendations I am really excited for Nita week this year I'm super excited to keep fighting stigma and spreading awareness for eating disorders as if I don't every other day but specifically because it is a week dedicated to Bringing awareness to talking about these issues and to maybe helping others that might be in that situation so that is it for this video thank you guys so much for watching and I will see you soon for a new video bye\n"