Resources

• National Alliance for Eating Disorders

• Association for Size Diversity & Health

• International Association of Eating Disorders Professionals

• Academy for Eating Disorders: A Guide to Medical Care

• HAES Health Sheets

• The Eating Disorder Foundation

• Project Heal

Mast Cell Activation Syndrome (MCAS) Information

MCAS Blog 1: What is MCAS, and why should clinicians and people with eating disorders care?

MCAS Blog 2: Diagnosing MCAS

MCAS Blog 3: Fundamentals of Treating MCAS 

MCAS Blog 4: Next Steps of Medical Management 

iaedp 2023 MCAS Presentation by Dr. Sarah-Ashley Robbins

MCAS Screening Tools:

Gaudiani Clinic MCAS “RASH-PF” Mini-Screen

Gaudiani Clinic MCAS Questionnaire

Helpful Articles & Videos

• Healthy eating curriculum may contribute to eating disorders in kids

• The Broken Lens: How Anti Fat Bias in Psychotherapy is Harming Our Clients and What To Do About It (PDF)

• Why Aren’t We Talking About Anorexia in Men?

• Women Are Calling Out ‘Medical Gaslighting’

• The Many Faces of Binge Eating Disorder

• Seven Types of Self-Care Activities for Coping with Stress

• Thinking about your weight? What you might be getting wrong about the Health at Every Size approach

• Growth charts & goal weight made simple: eating disorder recovery

• Should You Worry About Your Kid’s Pandemic Weight Gain?

• In Obesity Research, Fatphobia Is Always the X Factor

• Unlocking the Mysteries of Long COVID

• All Bodies on Bikes Documentary

• Is postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS) a central nervous system disorder?

• Is B.M.I. a Scam?

• I Feel Great About My Neck

• Light Documentary Discussion Panel 6.2.2021

• ‘Fat’ Isn’t a Bad Word—It’s Just the Way I Describe My Body

• When in Doubt, Aim Higher: What I Wish I’d Known About Target Weights in Recovery

• What is Thin Privilege?

• The Connection Between Mental Contamination, OCD, and Trauma

• Sugar Is Not the Enemy

• Eating Disorder Coaching Is Revolutionizing Treatment And Recovery

• Stop sucking in your stomach all the time — it could be bad for your health

• We Need to Talk About ‘The Giving Tree’

• What parents need to know about the hidden body image issues in boys

• Doctors Gave Her Antipsychotics. She Decided to Live With Her Voices.

• Could Exercise Be a Tool in Eating Disorder Recovery?

• What To Do If You've Been Told You Can't Get IVF Because Of Your Weight

• How to Find a Doctor Who Isn’t Laser-Focused on Your Weight

• Your Clothes Were Never Meant to Fit You

• Orthorexia: An eating disorder that few people understand and many accidentally applaud

Helpful Articles for Athletes

• October 2023 IOC Consensus Statement on Relative Energy Deficiency in Sport (REDs)

• Light: Climbing Documentary by Caroline Treadway

• Dear Younger Lauren

• I Changed My Body for My Sport. No Girl Should.

  Anti-racism Resources

  Our team is dedicated to continuing to learn how to do and be better.
  We also remain dedicated to unlearning and fighting messages rooted in racism and white supremacy.
  In this space, we’ll be sharing what we’re reading/listening to/doing as individually and as a team.

Books
How to be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
The Body Is Not An Apology by Sonya Renee Taylor

Podcasts

Confronting Systemic Racism in Healthcare
Food Psych #196: Diet Culture’s Racist Roots with Sabrina Strings

Articles

The Quest to Make Eating Disorder Treatment More Inclusive
It’s Not Obesity. It’s Slavery.
The Racist Roots of Fighting Obesity
NYT Juneteenth

Non-profit & Community Organizations

Black Mental Health Alliance
The Loveland Foundation
Inclusive Therapists
Fat Women of Color
Therapy for Black Girls
Black Emotional and Mental Health Collective (BEAM)

Businesses

Semicolon Bookstore

What we’re reading/watching/listening to this week selections:

The Me You Can’t See

Unlocking Us with Brené Brown and Sonya Renee Taylor

What My Sled Dogs Taught Me About Planning for the Unknown

Paging Dr. Hamblin: I Don’t See the Upside of a Flu Shot