embody: Learning to Love Your Unique Body (and quiet that critical voice!)

The Be Body Positive model shifts the focus from attempting to “fix what’s wrong” with your body to a practice of improving and maintaining self-care behaviors that are motivated by positive rather than punishing forces. The

Your goal with intuitive eating is to have as many nourishing and satisfying experiences as possible.

Take a moment to consider any obstacles that may be keeping you from living in your natural weight range. How can you begin to remove them, embrace the size and shape handed down to you by your ancestors and live more healthfully and joyfully in your body? If you discover obstacles that feel overwhelming to tackle, please seek help from a weight-ne

the development of trust in the body’s innate wisdom to guide physical and psychological self-care; improved interpersonal relationships; and the integration of body, mind, and spirit to support more purposeful living.

His findings consistently show that the people who live longer are physically active, independent of body size. His decades of research on tens of thousands of individuals consistently produce data confirming that people with large bodies who exercise on a regular basis live longer than thin people who don’t.

Over time you relax into the trial and error process of learning to eat and move—and live—intuitively.

Healthy Pleasures, Doctors Sobel and Ornstein summarize the results of numerous studies done on the health benefits of moderate exercise. One study found that getting an average of thirty minutes of physical movement per day through activities such as gardening, walking, fishing, dancing, and doing physical chores cut the occurrence of fatal heart

perspective on women’s struggles with food and the quest for thinness. I became angry at the societal messages that aggressively promoted a single standard of beauty—a standard that had caused me to spend most of my life seeing ugliness in myself and believing my body wasn’t good enough the way it was.

•Learn to listen to—and follow—your body’s wisdom. •Acquire tools and resources to help you eat, exercise, and live intuitively.