Resources

Phone numbers for immediate help:

• Call 988 for immediate crisis support
• Birmingham Crisis Center 205-323-7777
• National Suicide Prevention Lifeline 1-800-273-8255
• National Domestic Violence Hotline 1-800-799-7233
• Birmingham 2-1-1 or 1-888-421-1266 

Affordable Community Mental Health:

• Catholic Family Services Birmingham
• Oasis Counseling
• Alabama Mental Health
• Alabama Department of Mental Health
• Crisis Center
• Birmingham Alcoholics Anonymous
• UAB Counseling Center

What is Trauma?

Watch this video from Bessel van der Kolk

Warning signs of an eating disorder:

Watch this video from NEDA (National Eating Disorders Association)

Books

• The Body Keeps the Score
• The Wounded Heart
• A General Theory of Love
• The Gifts of Imperfection
• I Thought It Was Just Me (But It Isn’t)

• The Body is Not An Apology
• Health At Every Size
• Body Respect
• Intuitive Eating
• Things No One Will Tell Fat Girls
• Life Without ED

• Parenting From the Inside Out
• The Whole-Brain Child
• No-Drama Discipline
• How To Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk