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 bring 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

  • Unmasking Autism, by Devon Price

  • 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

Social Media Accounts:

  • @dr.jenniewh

  • @victoriarleon

  • @projectlets

  • @fedupcollective

  • @whitneytrotter.rd

  • @vanislevoicesforeds

  • @idha_nyc

  • @recoveredandrestored

  • @sacredspaceforfatbodies

  • @blackandembodied

  • @haes_by_asdah

  • @equiphealth

  • @inclusivetherapists

  • @black.nutritionist

  • @the.lovelybecoming

  • @traumaresolutionandrecovery

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

  • Stronger Together Discord