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