Recommended Reading 2022 – Dr. Flores’s Library

By: Sanford Behavioral Health
Posted on: September 13, 2022

A good book after a walk in Michigan autumn!

One of the joys of a Michigan autumn (after shuffling through leaves and looking at color) is to settle in with a lap blanket and a good book. For those in recovery, reading can be a distraction, an escape, and even a stress and anxiety reliever. Reading a good book about another person’s experience can give one perspective on their own life and make them feel a little less alone.

Sanford Behavioral Health’s Dr. Anna Flores shares her recommended reading list. Anna Flores is a Doctor of Clinical Nutrition specializing in eating disorder and co-occurring substance use disorder treatment at Sanford Comprehensive Treatment for Eating Disorders.

Dr. Anna Flores

Dr. Flores says, “My clinical approach is grounded in identifying and addressing root causes, as opposed to only providing a band-aid for symptoms. Entering a healing partnership with me means that you are seen, heard, and supported exactly as you are. And that we will work together in cultivating and nourishing a positive relationship with food.”

Recommended Reading 2022

Eating Disorder Reading List:

Non-Fiction & Self-Help

Goodbye Ed, Hello Me, by Jenni Schaefer
Life Without ED, by Jenni Schaefer
8 Keys to Recovery from an Eating Disorder, by Carolyn Costin
Eating in the Light of the Moon, by Anita Johnston
Body Outlaws: Rewriting the rules of beauty and body image, by Orphia Edut
Gaining: the truth about life after eating disorders, by Aimee Liu
Unbearable Weight: feminism, western culture, and the body, by Susan Bordo
The Body Keeps the Score, by Bessel van der Kolk
The Body is Not an Apology, by Sonya Renee Taylor
The Gifts of Imperfection, by Brene Brown
Rewire Your Brain: Think Your Way to a Better Life, by John B Arden
A Hunger So Wide and So Deep: A multi-racial view of women’s eating problems, by Becky W. Thompson

Memoirs

Not All Black Girls Know How To Eat, by Stephanie Covington Armstrong
The Body Tourist, by Dana Lise Shavin
Unbearable Lightness: A story of loss and gain, by Portia de Rossi
Wasted: A memoir of anorexia and bulimia, by Marya Hornbacher
Going Hungry: Writers on Desire, Self Denial, and Overcoming Anorexia, by Kate M. Taylor
Please Eat: A mother’s struggle to free her teenage son from anorexia, by Bev Mattocks
The Mean Disease: growing up in the shadow of my mother’s anorexia nervosa, by Daniel Becker
Loud in the House of Myself: Memoir of a strange girl, by Stacy Pershall
Hunger: A memoir of (my) body, by Roxane Gay

Poetry

Milk and Honey, by Rupi Kaur
Home Body, by Rupi Kaur
You Remind Me of You: A poetry memoir, by Eireann Corrigan

Adolescent/Young Adult

Things I’ll Never Say, edited by Anne Angel
Wintergirls, by Laurie Halse Anderson
Guts, by Raina Telgemeier

Substance Use Disorder Reading List:

Non-Fiction & Self-Help

The Four Agreements, by Don Miguel Ruiz
The Gifts of Imperfection, by Brene Brown
Eating in the Light of the Moon, by Anita Johnston
Never Enough – The Neuroscience and Experience of Addiction, by Judith Grisel
Rewire Your Brain: Think Your Way to a Better Life, by John B Arden
Undoing Drugs (The Untold Story of Harm Reduction and the Future of Addiction), by Maia Szalavitz
The Road Less Traveled, by Scott Peck
Living Clean: The Journey Continues
Refuge Recovery: A Buddhist Path to Recovering from Addiction, by Noah Levine
Man’s Search for Meaning, by Viktor E. Frankl
A Woman’s Way Through the Twelve Steps, by Stephanie Covington
Drop the Rock, by Bill P, Todd W., and Sara S.

Memoirs

Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget, by Sarah Hepola
Drinking: A Love Story, by Caroline Knapp
Terry: My Daughter’s Life-and-Death Struggle with Alcoholism, by George McGovern
The Big Fix: Hope After Heroin, by Tracey Helton Mitchell
In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters With Addiction, by Gabor Maté
Cherry, by Nico Walker
Drink: The Intimate Relationship Between Women and Alcohol, by Ann Dowsett Johnston
Quit Like a Woman, by Holly Whitaker
The Unexpected Joys of Being Sober, by Katherine Gray
Recovery: Freedom From Our Addictions, by Russell Brand
Unchain Your Brain, by Daniel G. Amen
Dry, by Augusten Burroughs
Drinking, by Caroline Knapp
This Naked Mind, by Annie Grace
The Sober Lush, by Amanda Eyre
My Fair Junkie: A Memoir of Getting Dirty and Staying Clean, by Amy Dresner
Girl Walks Out of a Bar, by Lisa F. Smith
A Million Little Pieces, by James Frey
Beautiful Boy, by David Sheff
Drunk Mom, by Jowita Bydlowska
The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself Self-Compassion, by Kristin Neff, PhD

Sanford Behavioral Health

Sanford Behavioral Health is licensed and accredited as an addiction, eating disorder, and co-occurring mental health treatment facility, serving all of Michigan and beyond. Each of Sanford’s facilities in Greater Grand Rapids is carefully and diligently crafted to create a welcoming and comforting environment. Sanford is led by a growing team of medical, clinical, and support personnel providing medication-assisted, evidenced-based treatment to residential, outpatient, and telehealth patients. For more information, visit www.sanfordbehavioralhealth.com.