Publications
The Book
Befriending Your Body
A Self-Compassionate Approach to Freeing Yourself from Disordered Eating
My hope is that this book offers you a different view on recovery—one that moves beyond just the recovery from harmful behaviors and instead offers a holistic and integrative view that values the freedom and recovery of your body, your mind, and your full self. This book sees your body as not just something to be healed or restored but rather as a source of great wisdom and knowledge. It also acknowledges your spirit and its importance in assisting you back into life and a full and lasting recovery, or what we can also look at as a great self-discovery. My hope as a clinician is to present another way for you to perceive and embrace your recovery process, one that encompasses a holistic approach to mind, body, and spirit and breaks through the mind-body divide. This view focuses on what is needed most—self-compassion, self-care, and connection to yourself and others—to heal and sustain recovery. Together we will begin a new path of integrated recovery and healing so you can step back into a fully lived life.
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THE CARD DECK
Awakening Self-Compassion Cards
52 Practices for Self-Care, Healing, and Growth
52 cards with simple, in-the-moment mindfulness and embodiment practices to increase your sense of well-being, self-confidence, and connection to others in your daily life.
Compassion is the internal, felt wish to alleviate the suffering of another. In the spiritual traditions, it is often described as a “trembling of the heart” in response to another’s suffering. We all know what it is like to feel this deep wish to care for and comfort someone we love, such as a dear friend, especially when they are in pain. Can you ever imagine beginning to integrate and offer this wish to yourself? Can you imagine learning how to meet yourself as a dear friend, especially during your own moments of suffering, and learn how to comfort, soothe, and release the pain? Learning to tend to your own suffering with gentleness and loving-kindness is self-compassion.
