Books that Inspire
Whole Family Health
When I go to local community events, parents always ask about where to get reading materials that support their whole family's health.
Here is a listing of a wide range of books that have inspired and align with the Family in Focus® approach to whole family health from the inside out. Quick on the links to find your copy online or go ask your favorite local bookseller to get a copy in store for you!
Body image, weight, stigma
Starfish, Lisa Fipps
Anti-Diet: Reclaim Your Time, Money, Well-Being, and Happiness Through Intuitive Eating, Christy Harrison, MPH, RD, CDES
Fat Talk: Parenting in the Age of Diet Culture, Virginia Sole-Smith
More Than a Body: Your Body is an Instrument, Not an Ornament, Lindsay & Lexie Kite
Real Kids Come in All Sizes Kathy Kater
Healthy Family Eating
Raising a Happy, Healthy Eater Nimali Fernandez, MD “Dr Yum” & Melanie Potock
Secrets of Feeding a Healthy Family, Ellyn Satter, RD
Red Light, Green Light, Eat Right: The Food Solution that Lets Kids Be Kids, Joanna Dolgoff, MD
The Obesity Code, The Diabetes Code Jason Fung, MD
Emotions & Emotional Health
All About Feelings Felicity Brooks (Usborne)
Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain, Lisa Feldman Barrett, PhD
Mental Health
Rest is Resistance Tricia Hersey “The Nap Minister”
The Anxious Generation Jonathan Haidt
The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness and Healing in a Toxic Culture, Gabor Mate, MD
Habits
Atomic Habits, James Clear
