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Renourish: A complete and compassionate guide to recovery from eating disorders
Through their advocacy, collaboration and deep dedication to improving outcomes for individuals, Warren and Lexi continue to make a meaningful contribution to the eating disorder sector - Butterfly Foundation
A step-by-step guide to resetting your relationship with food, renourishing your body and brain, and finding mental freedom from eating disorders.
Do you or someone you care about suffer from an eating disorder?
RENOURISH is your guide to recovery from disorders that include anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge eating disorder and ARFID (Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder).
Authors Dr Warren Ward and clinical nutritionist Lexi Crouch (herself fully recovered from anorexia) have dedicated their lives to helping people heal. In RENOURISH, they draw on the latest scientific research, clinical practice and lived experience to help you reset your relationship with food, your body and your mind.
They focus on the malnourished brain, and explain how it can trick us into the rigid thinking typical of eating disorders, leading to rules and rituals that deprive us of agency and disconnect us from joy.
Featuring patient stories, reflection activities and the latest research, Warren and Lexi take you through their three proven steps to recovery. Compassionate, practical and accessible, RENOURISH is a path to both physical recovery and emotional freedom.
This audiobook comes with supplementary material, you can download this material at the following
Praise for Renourish
Compassionate, wise and deeply grounded in lived and clinical experience - Bonnie Killip, Eating Disorder Recovery Consultant
This book demystifies and destigmatises eating disorders and helps us all hold the hope for recovery - Dr Janet Bayley, Consultant Psychiatrist, Trinity Clinic Cairns
This guide embeds positivity and hopefulness with pragmatic advice - Professor Phillipa Hay, Chair of Mental Health Western Sydney University
A gift for all who want to understand the human experience of an eating disorder and learn a pathway to healing. A timely and much needed book - Dr Beth Shelton, psychologist and consultant
Renourish offers the clarity, reassurance and practical strategies that every family needs when facing an eating disorder - Jane Rowan, Executive Director Eating Disorders Families Australia
This book will be an essential guide for many to both recover and help others recover from an eating disorder - Dr Randall Long, Head of Unit, Statewide Eating Disorder Service, South Australia
A step-by-step guide to resetting your relationship with food, renourishing your body and brain, and finding mental freedom from eating disorders.
Do you or someone you care about suffer from an eating disorder?
RENOURISH is your guide to recovery from disorders that include anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge eating disorder and ARFID (Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder).
Authors Dr Warren Ward and clinical nutritionist Lexi Crouch (herself fully recovered from anorexia) have dedicated their lives to helping people heal. In RENOURISH, they draw on the latest scientific research, clinical practice and lived experience to help you reset your relationship with food, your body and your mind.
They focus on the malnourished brain, and explain how it can trick us into the rigid thinking typical of eating disorders, leading to rules and rituals that deprive us of agency and disconnect us from joy.
Featuring patient stories, reflection activities and the latest research, Warren and Lexi take you through their three proven steps to recovery. Compassionate, practical and accessible, RENOURISH is a path to both physical recovery and emotional freedom.
This audiobook comes with supplementary material, you can download this material at the following
Praise for Renourish
Compassionate, wise and deeply grounded in lived and clinical experience - Bonnie Killip, Eating Disorder Recovery Consultant
This book demystifies and destigmatises eating disorders and helps us all hold the hope for recovery - Dr Janet Bayley, Consultant Psychiatrist, Trinity Clinic Cairns
This guide embeds positivity and hopefulness with pragmatic advice - Professor Phillipa Hay, Chair of Mental Health Western Sydney University
A gift for all who want to understand the human experience of an eating disorder and learn a pathway to healing. A timely and much needed book - Dr Beth Shelton, psychologist and consultant
Renourish offers the clarity, reassurance and practical strategies that every family needs when facing an eating disorder - Jane Rowan, Executive Director Eating Disorders Families Australia
This book will be an essential guide for many to both recover and help others recover from an eating disorder - Dr Randall Long, Head of Unit, Statewide Eating Disorder Service, South Australia
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September 5, 2025
3.675/5 I was really excited to read this one and learn more about Lexi’s journey as well as get some further insight from Warren—a leading professional in the space. Particularly as I currently navigate my own recovery journey and a really dark space of relapse.
One thing to note off the bat is that the book does discuss numbers and specifics which may not be helpful for some who are currently struggling in their own eating disorder battles. So if that’s you, I would really tune in to yourself before venturing into the read and perhaps wait until you’re in the mental space to do so safely. ☺️
Overall the book was Bert interesting and had a lot of useful information. I think it would be a great book to read for people who don’t know much about eating disorders and their treatment as an insight to it all.
The content on the right and left hemisphere brain was really intriguing to me and it helped me make sense of my keen desire to lean further into my creative side as I embark upon my own recovery. After years of treatment experience, I was also pleasantly surprised to find a new grounding technique in the book that I’d yet to hear of or try: “all the world’s a stage.” I won’t spoil it for you, you’ll have to grab your own copy of the book if you’re curious. 😉
Lexi’s connection to yoga also felt really connected to where I am currently as during my relapse I’ve even able to find a more gentle form of movement and mental clarity through yoga which I hope to carry forward into recovery once I’m well again.
All in all a variety of passages resonated well and there were some good recovery insights, techniques and supports throughout. I would most definitely recommend the book to individuals in a later stage of their recovery (due to numbers and specifics, or as long as you’re self-aware to a level to manage these - don’t let ED trick you though…) as well as professionals, support networks and those curious about ED’s.
One thing to note off the bat is that the book does discuss numbers and specifics which may not be helpful for some who are currently struggling in their own eating disorder battles. So if that’s you, I would really tune in to yourself before venturing into the read and perhaps wait until you’re in the mental space to do so safely. ☺️
Overall the book was Bert interesting and had a lot of useful information. I think it would be a great book to read for people who don’t know much about eating disorders and their treatment as an insight to it all.
The content on the right and left hemisphere brain was really intriguing to me and it helped me make sense of my keen desire to lean further into my creative side as I embark upon my own recovery. After years of treatment experience, I was also pleasantly surprised to find a new grounding technique in the book that I’d yet to hear of or try: “all the world’s a stage.” I won’t spoil it for you, you’ll have to grab your own copy of the book if you’re curious. 😉
Lexi’s connection to yoga also felt really connected to where I am currently as during my relapse I’ve even able to find a more gentle form of movement and mental clarity through yoga which I hope to carry forward into recovery once I’m well again.
All in all a variety of passages resonated well and there were some good recovery insights, techniques and supports throughout. I would most definitely recommend the book to individuals in a later stage of their recovery (due to numbers and specifics, or as long as you’re self-aware to a level to manage these - don’t let ED trick you though…) as well as professionals, support networks and those curious about ED’s.
November 22, 2025
A big congratulations to Lexi and Dr Ward on this book. It’s been a privilege to have met both people and to see their passion for creating awareness, hope and tools for many battling eating disorders.
This book will help many families navigate the medical and mental health challenges living with an Ed.
Big thanks to Lexi for sharing her personal
journey throughout.
This book will help many families navigate the medical and mental health challenges living with an Ed.
Big thanks to Lexi for sharing her personal
journey throughout.
November 6, 2025
FINALLY the pipeline from eating disorder to anti media and anti capitalism explored!!
i listened to the audiobook version and i just could not take the male reader seriously why does he sound like he’s doing his best impression of the guy who hosts the casefiles true crime podcast???? i had so much fun listening to my girlie and then he would barge in with his ominous vibe and project a sense of impending doom
very informative and didn’t come off sounding like a guide like so many educational resources do. i learnt a lot! i wonder what would have happened if in 2016 my doctors had simply explained brain starvation to me instead of telling me i had autism and that i needed to lose 3 more kgs to qualify for getting their help LOL
on a lighter note i turned the reflective activities into put a finger down challenges and i had so much fucking fun i rofled at “observe your surroundings to see if you are the skinniest person in the room” or whatever it was. i love to see a recovery focused, modern day anti pathological understanding of eating disorders.
i listened to the audiobook version and i just could not take the male reader seriously why does he sound like he’s doing his best impression of the guy who hosts the casefiles true crime podcast???? i had so much fun listening to my girlie and then he would barge in with his ominous vibe and project a sense of impending doom
very informative and didn’t come off sounding like a guide like so many educational resources do. i learnt a lot! i wonder what would have happened if in 2016 my doctors had simply explained brain starvation to me instead of telling me i had autism and that i needed to lose 3 more kgs to qualify for getting their help LOL
on a lighter note i turned the reflective activities into put a finger down challenges and i had so much fucking fun i rofled at “observe your surroundings to see if you are the skinniest person in the room” or whatever it was. i love to see a recovery focused, modern day anti pathological understanding of eating disorders.
September 16, 2025
Such a validating and comprehensive book! It was triggering, at times, but I definitely plan on reading it again a bit down the track. It was really interesting to read about the Brain Renourishment Scale and brain starvation. It has really given me a lot to think about and ways that I can move forward with working towards my own recovery. I believe it will also help me assist others who may be experiencing an eating disorder themselves or disordered eating.
December 8, 2025
Very insightful. Perfect for someone who has an eating disorder or who has just recovered from an eating disorder.
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