Recommended Reading 2022 – Dr. Flores’s Library

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:Â
Non-Fiction & Self-Help
- Goodbye Ed, Hello Me, by Jenni SchaeferÂ
- Life Without ED, by Jenni SchaeferÂ
- 8 Keys to Recovery from an Eating Disorder, by Carolyn CostinÂ
- Eating in the Light of the Moon, by Anita JohnstonÂ
- Body Outlaws: Rewriting the rules of beauty and body image, by Orphia EdutÂ
- Gaining: the truth about life after eating disorders, by Aimee LiuÂ
- Unbearable Weight: feminism, western culture, and the body, by Susan BordoÂ
- The Body Keeps the Score, by Bessel van der KolkÂ
- The Body is Not an Apology, by Sonya Renee TaylorÂ
- The Gifts of Imperfection, by Brene BrownÂ
- Rewire Your Brain: Think Your Way to a Better Life, by John B ArdenÂ
- A Hunger So Wide and So Deep: A multi-racial view of women’s eating problems, by Becky W. ThompsonÂ
MemoirsÂ
- Not All Black Girls Know How To Eat, by Stephanie Covington ArmstrongÂ
- The Body Tourist, by Dana Lise ShavinÂ
- Unbearable Lightness: A story of loss and gain, by Portia de RossiÂ
- Wasted: A memoir of anorexia and bulimia, by Marya HornbacherÂ
- Going Hungry: Writers on Desire, Self Denial, and Overcoming Anorexia, by Kate M. TaylorÂ
- Please Eat: A mother’s struggle to free her teenage son from anorexia, by Bev MattocksÂ
- The Mean Disease: growing up in the shadow of my mother’s anorexia nervosa, by Daniel BeckerÂ
- Loud in the House of Myself: Memoir of a strange girl, by Stacy PershallÂ
- Hunger: A memoir of (my) body, by Roxane GayÂ
PoetryÂ
- Milk and Honey, by Rupi KaurÂ
- Home Body, by Rupi KaurÂ
- You Remind Me of You: A poetry memoir, by Eireann CorriganÂ
Adolescent/Young AdultÂ
- Things I’ll Never Say, edited by Anne AngelÂ
- Wintergirls, by Laurie Halse AndersonÂ
- Guts, by Raina TelgemeierÂ
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Substance Use Disorder Reading List:Â
Non-Fiction & Self-HelpÂ
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The Four Agreements, by Don Miguel Ruiz
- The Gifts of Imperfection, by Brene BrownÂ
- Eating in the Light of the Moon, by Anita JohnstonÂ
- Never Enough – The Neuroscience and Experience of Addiction, by Judith GriselÂ
- Rewire Your Brain: Think Your Way to a Better Life, by John B ArdenÂ
- Undoing Drugs (The Untold Story of Harm Reduction and the Future of Addiction), by Maia SzalavitzÂ
- The Road Less Traveled, by Scott PeckÂ
- Living Clean: The Journey Continues
- Refuge Recovery: A Buddhist Path to Recovering from Addiction, by Noah LevineÂ
- Man’s Search for Meaning, by Viktor E. FranklÂ
- A Woman’s Way Through the Twelve Steps, by Stephanie CovingtonÂ
- Drop the Rock, by Bill P, Todd W., and Sara S.
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MemoirsÂ
- Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget, by Sarah HepolaÂ
- Drinking: A Love Story, by Caroline KnappÂ
- Terry: My Daughter’s Life-and-Death Struggle with Alcoholism, by George McGovernÂ
- The Big Fix: Hope After Heroin, by Tracey Helton MitchellÂ
- In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters With Addiction, by Gabor Maté
- Cherry, by Nico WalkerÂ
- Drink: The Intimate Relationship Between Women and Alcohol, by Ann Dowsett JohnstonÂ
- Quit Like a Woman, by Holly WhitakerÂ
- The Unexpected Joys of Being Sober, by Katherine GrayÂ
- Recovery: Freedom From Our Addictions, by Russell BrandÂ
- Unchain Your Brain, by Daniel G. AmenÂ
- Dry, by Augusten BurroughsÂ
- Drinking, by Caroline KnappÂ
- This Naked Mind, by Annie GraceÂ
- The Sober Lush, by Amanda EyreÂ
- My Fair Junkie: A Memoir of Getting Dirty and Staying Clean, by Amy DresnerÂ
- Girl Walks Out of a Bar, by Lisa F. SmithÂ
- A Million Little Pieces, by James FreyÂ
- Beautiful Boy, by David SheffÂ
- Drunk Mom, by Jowita BydlowskaÂ
- The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself Self-Compassion, by Kristin Neff, PhDÂ
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