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Books like Intuitive Eating
The best books like Intuitive Eating are The Body Keeps the Score, Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything, and Lost Connections. Intuitive Eating by Evelyn Tribole is about eating disorders, body image, hunger cues. If that's what drew you in, here are 12 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.
- The Body Keeps the Score
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Bessel van der Kolk · Psychology
The Body Keeps the Score is Bessel van der Kolk's account of four decades spent studying and treating trauma, from Vietnam veterans at the VA in the 1970s to survivors of childhood abuse, accidents, and domestic violence.
A kindred health read.
Read the summary → - Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything
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Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything
BJ Fogg · Self-help
Tiny Habits is BJ Fogg's distillation of more than two decades of research at Stanford's Behavior Design Lab.
Both dig into self-compassion.
Read the summary → - Lost Connections
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Johann Hari · Health
Lost Connections is Johann Hari's argument that depression and anxiety are not primarily chemical imbalances in the brain but responses to social and environmental conditions — disconnection from meaningful work, close relationships, the natural world, a secure future, and status that feels deserved.
A kindred health read.
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- Daring Greatly
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Brené Brown · Health
Daring Greatly is Brené Brown's argument, drawn from twelve years of qualitative research on shame and vulnerability, that the willingness to show up without guarantees — to be seen, to risk failure, to remain open in the presence of uncertainty — is not weakness but the foundation of courage, connection, and meaningful achievement.
A kindred health read.
Read the summary → - Burnout
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Emily Nagoski and Amelia Nagoski · Health
Burnout is Emily and Amelia Nagoski's book about why so many women feel exhausted despite doing everything they're supposed to do — and what to do about it.
Both dig into self-compassion.
Read the summary → - Hunger
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Roxane Gay · Memoir
Hunger is Roxane Gay's memoir about her body, the trauma that shaped it, and the world's persistent refusal to accommodate it.
Both dig into body image.
Read the summary → - Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
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Roxane Gay · Memoir
Hunger is Roxane Gay's memoir of her body — how it came to be the way it is, what she has thought about it, and what it means to live in a body that the world reads as a problem to be solved.
Both dig into body image.
Read the summary → - Radical Acceptance
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Tara Brach · Religion & Spirituality
Tara Brach, a psychologist and Buddhist meditation teacher, wrote Radical Acceptance as a response to what she calls the trance of unworthiness — the pervasive background feeling that something is fundamentally wrong with us, that we are not enough.
Both dig into self-compassion.
Read the summary → - Self-Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself
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Self-Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself
Kristin Neff · Psychology
Kristin Neff makes a claim that many readers initially resist: treating yourself with the same kindness you'd offer a good friend in distress is not self-indulgence, weakness, or an obstacle to high performance.
Both dig into self-compassion.
Read the summary → - The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love
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The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love
Sonya Renee Taylor · Psychology
Sonya Renee Taylor's central argument is that the way societies teach people to hate, distrust, or feel ashamed of their bodies is not a personal failing but a political and economic system — and that dismantling it begins with what she calls radical self-love.
Both dig into body image.
Read the summary → - The Compassionate Mind
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Paul Gilbert · Psychology
The Compassionate Mind is Paul Gilbert's comprehensive account of Compassion Focused Therapy, the approach he developed over decades of clinical work with people whose suffering was heavily compounded by shame, self-criticism, and an inability to feel comforted or to comfort themselves.
Both dig into self-compassion.
Read the summary → - The Gifts of Imperfection
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Brené Brown · Self-help
The Gifts of Imperfection is Brené Brown's attempt to translate a decade of qualitative research on shame, vulnerability, and belonging into practical guidance for everyday life.
Both dig into self-compassion.
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Books like Intuitive Eating: quick answers
What are the best books like Intuitive Eating?
The best books like Intuitive Eating by Evelyn Tribole are The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk, Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything by BJ Fogg, Lost Connections by Johann Hari, Daring Greatly by Brené Brown, Burnout by Emily Nagoski and Amelia Nagoski, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with Intuitive Eating, such as eating disorders, body image, hunger cues.
What should I read after Intuitive Eating?
A natural next read after Intuitive Eating is The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk. A kindred health read. Other strong choices are Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything by BJ Fogg, Lost Connections by Johann Hari, Daring Greatly by Brené Brown.
What books are similar to Intuitive Eating by Evelyn Tribole?
Intuitive Eating centers on eating disorders, body image, hunger cues. Books with a similar feel include The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk, Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything by BJ Fogg, Lost Connections by Johann Hari, Daring Greatly by Brené Brown, Burnout by Emily Nagoski and Amelia Nagoski, Hunger by Roxane Gay — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
