Renourish by Warren Ward

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.

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

About the Author: Dr Warren Ward is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Queensland and Director of the Ramsay Clinic New Farm Eating Disorders Program. In 2017, he received the ANZAED Distinguished Achievement Award for his contributions to the field of eating disorders, and in 2018 he was made a Fellow of the international Academy for Eating Disorders.

Lexi Crouch is an eating disorder coach, clinical nutritionist and yoga teacher. She has dedicated her life to helping others ever since her own recovery from a severe and life-threatening eating disorder.

19 Aug 2025
 

Renourish: A complete and compassionate guide to recovery from eating disorders by Warren Ward ISBN 9781761266546