You Can't Judge a Body by Its Cover: 17 Women's Stories of Hunger, Body Shame, and Redemption

by David Bedrick

Overview

What if your hunger—that force that beckons you to the ice cream aisle, and guides your hands to take seconds when you didn't even feel like having firsts—was the misunderstood sage of your body, rattling its cage inside the fortress of your soul? What if your resistance to dieting were actually a message of self-love? What if your body size and shape also held intelligence and protection? In You Can't Judge a Body by Its Cover, you'll read seventeen stories of women who opened the doors to their souls in therapeutic sessions with David Bedrick: stories of shame and self-love, fear and hope, being small and being big. These are the inside stories of the transformation, from bodies impacted by sexism and racism, rape and harsh criticism, and the deepest hungers for an authentic life. You'll recognize your own pains and abuses, resistance to weight loss, your hungers…and power. Get ready to be inspired. Get ready to see everything differently. Get ready to meet the life-changing secrets held within your body's rebellion to living in a society that fetishizes thinness and shames authenticity.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781733901154
Publisher:	Belly Song Press
Publication date:	12/01/2020
Sold by:	INDEPENDENT PUB GROUP - EPUB - EBKS
Format:	eBook
Pages:	292
File size:	973 KB

About the Author

David Bedrick, J.D., Dipl. PW is an attorney, educator, and process worker. He founded the Santa Fe Institute for Shame-Based Studies where he teaches and works with individuals from around the world. He is the author of Talking Back to Dr. Phil: Alternatives to Mainstream Psychology and Revisioning Activism: Bringing Depth, Dialogue, and Diversity to Individual and Social Change.

Table of Contents

Foreword Preface Introduction 1 Alexis: The Joy of "No!" 2 Anna: Fitting In 3 Vanessa: Loving the Bear 4 Heather: From "Okay"-ing to Healing 5 Erica: Starbucks Happiness 6 Christina: When the Problem Behind the Problem Holds the Solution 7 Kimberly: The Mirror of Malicious Eyes 8 Isabella: The Sweatshirt Shield 9 Megan: A Cocoon of the Right Size 10 Lane: The Power Plan 11 Jasmine: You Don't Hurt Things that Are Beautiful 12 Francesca: Breaking Out of Smallness 13 Faith: Shak'n It Up 14 Monica: The Wounding Mother 15 Kelly: Getting By with More (Instead of Less) 16 Sinead: Authenticity Rules 17 Keisha: Living Large Notes Acknowledgments About the Author