Nourishing Recovery

Praise for Nourishing Recovery

"Nourishing Recovery is something I've never seen before: an instructive textbook you can savor over tea and an essential read if you work with humans. Whether you've been in the field a day or a lifetime, this book will remind you how important nutrition is to humanity and how important humanity is to nutrition."

-Jessica Setnick, MS, RDN, CEDS-C, Keynote Speaker, Author, Advocate

"Nourishing Recovery offers a sophisticated, comprehensive, compassionate, and truly responsive resource for nutrition professionals and students who plan to care for those with eating disorders."

-Jennifer L. Gaudiani, MD, CEDS-C, FAED, Founder & Medical Director of the Gaudiani Clinic

"Drawing on evidence, clinical experience, case examples, and embodied compassion, Nourishing Recovery addresses the complex challenges confronting professionals who care for people with eating disorders. It should be read and discussed by anyone planning to work closely with people with eating disorders and their caregivers."

-Michael P. Levine, PhD, FAED, Emeritus Professor of Psychology, Kenyon College

Nourishing Recovery: A New Integrated Approach to Nutritional Care for Eating Disorders is a professional resource for clinicians, students, educators, treatment team members, and caregivers seeking a deeper understanding of effective nutritional care in eating disorder treatment.

Drawing on decades of clinical experience, Lisa Pearl and Marci Evans present an integrated approach that invites readers to rethink nutritional care, not simply as the process of helping someone eat differently, but as a therapeutic process that can rebuild safety, strengthen agency, deepen self-attunement, and support recovery in ways that extend far beyond the plate.

Their framework brings together nutrition science, therapeutic relationship, neuroscience, behavioral psychology, and interdisciplinary collaboration to address the complex needs of individuals across the eating disorder spectrum. Informed by qualitative research exploring clients' experiences and grounded in the voices of people in recovery, Nourishing Recovery places clients' perspectives at the heart of informing clinical practice.