Your Body, Your Best Friend: End the Confidence-Crushing Pursuit of
For women who've learned to be their own worst enemies, this in-your-face guide offers powerful tools to break free from the cultural messages that feed negative body image and stand in the way of becoming your most authentic and radiant self. Have you ever wondered what you could accomplish with the time you spend worrying about your body or appearance? In a society overwhelmed with messages of how women should be and appear, it's easy to internalize these ideas and become our own harshest critics. It's time for a change. It's time to stop squashing ourselves into painfully tight should-be boxes and celebrate our bodies for what they are--divine tools to reach our highest aspirations and experience the full fabulousness of life. In this book, you'll find a practical program for healing body image dissatisfaction using a unique blend of wisdom--from yoga to Buddhism and Taoism to shamanism and more. Weaving the author's own experiences with tools for putting lessons into action, this empowering book will help you examine your own thoughts and feelings about your body and learn how they affect the way you relate in and to the world. With this unflinchingly direct and honest book, you'll learn to release years of negative conditioning to see yourself as the fiercely authentic woman you really are. So, stop wasting time and energy hating your body and start moving toward a life that celebrates your body's unique strengths and capabilities for experiencing health, happiness, and true radiance.
Erica Mather is a lifelong teacher who has struggled with emotional overeating, compulsive overexercising and body
dysmorphia disorder herself. She is founder of the Adore Your Body system for overcoming body image challenges and
of the Yoga Clinic of NYC, which educates "regular people," teachers and medical professionals about the practical
applications of yoga for everyday health. Mather is a recognised body image expert and a Forrest Yoga lineage-holder.
She was also named one of the next generation's important yoga teachers by Yoga Journal. Mather writes for Mind
Body Green on the topic of body image challenges and is an active member of the Yoga and Body Image Coalition. She
appeared most recently for SoulFeed Podcast, which hit 53,000 downloads in its first three months of existence. The
popularity of her interview led founders to ask her back and other authors are also becoming aware of her work. She
lives in New York City.
Author: Erica Mather
Format: Paperback, 192 pages, 152mm x 226mm, 315 g
Published: 2020, New Harbinger Publications, United States
Genre: Self Improvement: General
For women who've learned to be their own worst enemies, this in-your-face guide offers powerful tools to break free from the cultural messages that feed negative body image and stand in the way of becoming your most authentic and radiant self. Have you ever wondered what you could accomplish with the time you spend worrying about your body or appearance? In a society overwhelmed with messages of how women should be and appear, it's easy to internalize these ideas and become our own harshest critics. It's time for a change. It's time to stop squashing ourselves into painfully tight should-be boxes and celebrate our bodies for what they are--divine tools to reach our highest aspirations and experience the full fabulousness of life. In this book, you'll find a practical program for healing body image dissatisfaction using a unique blend of wisdom--from yoga to Buddhism and Taoism to shamanism and more. Weaving the author's own experiences with tools for putting lessons into action, this empowering book will help you examine your own thoughts and feelings about your body and learn how they affect the way you relate in and to the world. With this unflinchingly direct and honest book, you'll learn to release years of negative conditioning to see yourself as the fiercely authentic woman you really are. So, stop wasting time and energy hating your body and start moving toward a life that celebrates your body's unique strengths and capabilities for experiencing health, happiness, and true radiance.
Erica Mather is a lifelong teacher who has struggled with emotional overeating, compulsive overexercising and body
dysmorphia disorder herself. She is founder of the Adore Your Body system for overcoming body image challenges and
of the Yoga Clinic of NYC, which educates "regular people," teachers and medical professionals about the practical
applications of yoga for everyday health. Mather is a recognised body image expert and a Forrest Yoga lineage-holder.
She was also named one of the next generation's important yoga teachers by Yoga Journal. Mather writes for Mind
Body Green on the topic of body image challenges and is an active member of the Yoga and Body Image Coalition. She
appeared most recently for SoulFeed Podcast, which hit 53,000 downloads in its first three months of existence. The
popularity of her interview led founders to ask her back and other authors are also becoming aware of her work. She
lives in New York City.