Community History Books

Writing is a valuable form of communication and expression for everyone. When natural disasters, such as drought, bushfires, and floods, occur, storytelling is one way that residents in affected communities can process and come to terms with their changed circumstances, and free themselves to move forward with their lives. I...

Boldly written with graphic honesty, Grief Diaries: Through the Eyes of an Eating Disorder features the stories of 13 women who struggled from childhood into adulthood with anorexia nervosa, bulimia, and binge eating disorder. Revealing the desperate secrets of their devastating illness for the first time, the women expose the painful truths...

Above all, the catalyst for this book was a desire to explore and reveal through the unsolicited diaries of patients, the potential of diary writing as a therapeutic tool in self-renewal and healing. The story behind Using Writing as a Therapy for Eating Disorders: The Diary Healer began in 1962,...

June is travelling the world to raise raise awareness of the importance of family involvement and support in the treatment of eating disorders. This picture was taken at the Academy for Eating Disorders’ annual conference in Salzburg in 2010. My Kid is Back explains how family-based treatment can greatly reduce...

I am in Sixth Grade at school and I am developing Anorexia Nervosa. My parents are worried sick about me. They think I won’t make it to my 12th birthday. No one understands me. I don’t understand, either. I only know that I have to lose weight. I am too scared...

Getting Better Bite by Bite is a survival kit for sufferers of bulimia nervosa and binge eating disorders. Every page of this self-help book carries the message that recovery from bulimia nervosa and binge eating disorders is possible, at every age. Getting Better Bite by Bite does not pretend that...

Ed says U said unravels the complexities of eating disorders (referred to as ‘ED’) into layman’s language that you can understand. Using avatars and the Twitter-like title and format, this book pitches to a social media-conscious-audience. ‘ED’ is portrayed as an invisible bully that develops in the mind. Its agenda...

Welcome to this collection of stories selected to celebrate and promote eating disorder advocacy and awareness. The compelling title of this book, Come as you are, eating disorders can’t wait, comes from the 2019 themes of two awareness campaigns – that of the National Eating Disorders Association (NEDA) in the...

The highly respected and widely known Anorexia Nervosa: A Survival Guide for Sufferers and Friends was written in 1997. This long-awaited new edition builds on the work of the first book, providing essential new and updated research outcomes on anorexia nervosa. Anorexia Nervosa: A Recovery Guide for Sufferers, Families and...

I was 11 years old, in Grade Six at primary school, when I developed a mental illness called anorexia nervosa. It starved my body and I became emaciated. Eventually I gained weight and everyone, including me, thought I was well again. But anorexia hid inside my brain, and continued to...