Resources for ongoing learning and support:

These books and social media accounts are focused on eating disorders and general mental health, particularly with an emphasis on relevant social and cultural factors. Jennie is committed to ongoing learning and brings these explorations into therapy services.

Books:

  • The Body is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love, by Sonya Renee Taylor

  • What Happened To You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing, by Bruce D. Perry and Oprah Winfrey

  • What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Fat, by Aubrey Gordon

  • Famished: Eating Disorders and Failed Care in America by Rebecca Lester

  • Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia, by Sabrina Strings

  • Don’t Let It Get You Down: Essays on Race, Gender, and the Body, by Savala Nolan

  • The Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness by Da’Shaun L. Harrison

  • Laziness Does Not Exist, by Devon Price

  • Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman, by Lindy West

  • How to Be an Anti-Racist by Ibram X. Kendi

  • Bad Feminist, by Roxane Gay

  • So You Want to Talk About Race, by Ijeoma Oluo

  • Abolition. Feminism. Now. by Angela Y. Davis

  • Decarcerating Disability, by Liat Ben Moshe

  • We Do This Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice by Mariame Kaba

  • I Will Die On This Hill: Autistic Adults, Autism Parents, and the Children Who Deserve a Better World, by Jules Edwards and Meghan Ashburn

  • Unmasking Autism, by Devon Price

  • Neuroqueer Heresies, by Nick Walker

  • It’s Always Been Ours: Rewriting the Story of Black Women’s Bodies, by Jessica Wilson

  • Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents, by Lindsay Gibson

  • Pure: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Shamed a Generation of Young Women and How I Broke Free by Linda Kay Klein

  • When Religion Hurts You: Healing from Religious Trauma and the Impact of High Control Religion by Dr. Laura Anderson

  • Empty the Pews: Stories of Leaving the Church by Chrissy Stroop and Lauren O’Neal

  • #ChurchToo: How Purity Culture Upholds Abuse and How to Find Healing by Emily Joy Allison

  • The Wisdom of Your Body by Hillary L. McBride

Podcasts:

  • Body Justice with Allyson Ford

  • The Lovely Becoming with Mimi Cole

  • Maintenance Phase with Aubrey Gordon and Michael Hobbes

  • Uniquely Human with Barry Prizant and Dave Finch

  • Neurodivergent Narratives with Sandra Coral

Social Media Accounts:

  • @dr.jenniewh

  • @edadhd_therapist

  • @victoriarleon

  • @bodyjustice.therapist

  • @therapywithjocelyn

  • @projectlets

  • @fedupcollective

  • @whitneytrotter.rd

  • @vanislevoicesforeds

  • @idha_nyc

  • @recoveredandrestored

  • @sacredspaceforfatbodies

  • @blackandembodied

  • @haes_by_asdah

  • @equiphealth

  • @inclusivetherapists

  • @black.nutritionist

  • @the.lovelybecoming

  • @reclamationcollective

  • @traumaresolutionandrecovery

  • @drlauraanderson

  • @religioustraumainstitute

  • @ericasmith.sex.ed

Crisis and Crisis Preparation

  • THRIVE Text Support line- 1-313-662-8209

  • Trans Lifeline- 877-565-8660

  • Samaritans of NY- 212-673-3000

  • National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs- 212-714-1141

  • Fireweed Collective Crisis Toolkit

    Peer Support

  • Project Return Peer Support Warm Line- 888-448-9777

  • Wildflower Alliance Peer Support Line- 888-407-4515

  • Fed Up Collective- A Trans and Intersex Collective

  • IG Live Liberation Lunches @dr.jenniewh

  • Kiva Centers- Daily online peer support groups

  • MH First- 916-670-4062

  • Peer Support Space- Virtual peer support groups