26 Powerful Songs About Eating Disorders and Recovery

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Last updated on March 26th, 2025 at 06:47 pm

Music is a powerful healing tool. It helps us connect with ourselves, those around us and our environment in profound ways.  Having a playlist of powerful songs about eating disorders and overcoming them can be a great tool for recovery. 

Music can help in your eating disorder recovery by: 

  • Helping you identify and release difficult emotions
  • Letting you tap into a different part of your nervous system than spoken words
  • Allowing you to share experiences with others who have been there
  • Improve focus and foster relearning 
  • Reduce feelings of loneliness and isolation

These powerful eating disorder recovery songs can help you feel less alone, reduce anxiety, and motivate you to move forward in your recovery journey. 

Why Have an Eating Disorder Recovery Playlist

Everyone connects with messages from the world differently.  It’s important to have visual, physical, and auditory tools to help aid you in your eating disorder recovery. 

Eating disorder recovery is a long, difficult, and non-linear journey. But having a variety of teaching tools to help you get there with the least amount of resistance. 

Songs about eating disorder recovery can help:

  • You feel less isolated
  • Improve physical metrics such as blood pressure and cortisol levels
  • Feel like you have permission to eat
  • Feel more courageous
  • Singings songs can stimulate the vagus nerve and help you feel calm
infographic of songs about eating disorders

How To Use ED Recovery Songs

Here are some ways to make the most out of your ED recovery songs:
1. Make a designated playlist 

2. Schedule a time each day to listen to your favorite songs

3.  Keep listening to the music, even if you don’t believe it right away

4. Revisit different recovery songs at different points in your recovery

5. Write down your favorite lyrics in a recovery journal 

6. Write down your favorite lyrics on post it notes, a mirror or other frequently visited space

7. Sing them! It stimulates the vagus nerve and can help keep you calm 

7. Listen to your recovery songs when you feel triggered

Motivational Eating Disorder Recovery Songs

  1. Pretty On The Inside: Chloe Adams
  2. Better Days: Dermott Kennedy 
  3. You Can’t Rush Your Healing: Trevor Hall
  4. Scars To Your Beautiful: Alessia Cara
  5. This is me: The greatest showman
  6. I am light: India Arie
  7. Beautiful: Bethany Dillon
  8. Courage: Orianthi featuring Lacey
  9. Cinderella snapped: Jax
  10. Courage to change: Sia
  11. Affirmation song: snoop dog
  12. I am not okay: Jelly Roll
  13. Tell me i’m pretty: Brynn Elliott
  14. Girls need girls: Sophia Scott
  15. Video: Indie Arie
  16. My Body’s My Buddy: Tessa Violet and Brye
  17. If I Were a Fish: Olivia Barton
  18. Closed Doors: Candice Sands
  19. Body Love: Mary Lambert
  20. Not a Pretty Girl: Ani DiFranco
  21. The Light: Disturbed
  22. The Competition: Kimya Dawson
  23. You Are Here: Wailin’ Jenny’s
  24. Stand Like an Oak: Rising Appalacia
  25. You’re Gonna Be Okay: Ashh Blackwood
  26. Hall of fame: the script
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Additional ED Recovery Tools

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Shena Jaramillo. Registered Dietitian
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