http://www.aptedsf.com The Association of Professionals Treating Eating Disorders is a San Francisco based nonprofit organization founded by Dr. Deborah Brenner Liss. APTED offers a wealth of treatment provider resources in the bay area who provide eating disorder recovery services.
La Ventana offers day and intensive outpatient treatment for eating disorder recovery in San Francisco.
Overeaters Anonymous is a 12-step fellowship of individuals who, through shared experience, strength and hope are recovering from compulsive overeating. We welcome everyone who wants to stop eating compulsively. There are also recovering anorexics and bulimics in this fellowship.
NATIONAL: www.edreferral.com is a web resource for finding residentialand outpatient treatment across the United States.
NEDA--National Eating Disorders Association is the largest not-for-profit organization in the United States working to prevent andprovide treatment referrals for eating disorders. Their site includes many helpful download-able hand-outs.
Something Fishy is the most well-known pro-recovery website dedicated to raising awareness and providing support to people with Eating Disorders and their loved ones since 1995.
BODY IMAGE www.thebodypositive.orga local organization founded to help girls and women cherish their bodies in order to lead richer, fuller and healthier lives.
Jean Kilbourne is the first lady of media literacy. As her website states, she “is internationally recognized for her pioneering work on alcohol and tobacco advertising and the image of women in advertising. Her films, slide lectures and television appearances have been seen by millions of people throughout the world.”Check out her film, Killing Us Softly as well.
www.mothergoddess.com is a web site devoted to art, poetry, and feminist resources on the goddess.
EXPRESSIVE ARTS Soul collage http://www.soulcollage.com SoulCollage® is a creative and satisfying collage process. You make your own deck of cards - each collage card representing one aspect of your personality or Soul. Use the collage cards intuitively to answer life's questions and participate in self-discovery. Joyfully deepen your understanding of the relationships between your personality parts, you and your family/community/world, and you and your dreams, symbols, and Spirit. The book, SoulCollage® Evolving, tells how to make and use the SoulCollage® cards individually and in groups.
http://www.creativesourcesf.com Adriana Marchione is trained in the Life/Art Process, a method developed at the Tamalpa Institute by Anna Halprin and Daria Halprin. The Life/Art Process is a movement-based approach that serves as a vibrant method for establishing health and well-being in individuals, groups and communities.
http://www.tamalpa.org Tamalpa Institute, founded in 1978 by dance and expressive arts therapy pioneers Anna Halprin and Daria Halprin, is a non-profit organization internationally recognized for its ground breaking training programs & workshops in a unique approach to movement based expressive arts education and therapy.
BOOKS
www.Gurze.comis a book publishing company that specializes in books about eating disorder recovery. The founder recovered from her own eating disorder, wrote a book about it, and then started this publishing company.
