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10 Steps to Loving Your Body (No Matter What Size You Are)

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As a therapist, I know that the toughest part for most women in their journey to make peace with food is learning how to build a better body image. 10 Steps to Loving Your Body is a fabulous resource for doing just that. Author Pat Ballard offers her own wisdom, along with inspirational quotes from people such as Gilda Radner and Wayner Dyer. One of my favorites: "Begin challenging your assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile or the light won't come in." (Alan Alda)

If you are struggling with weight/body image issues, keep this book on your night stand or in your purse, and open its pages often. It will be like having a kind and gentle best friend with you who wants what's best for you and knows how to help you get there.

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I was so excited to get this book after reading the description and the reviews. I was looking for something that was going to give me real and insightful steps to my thinking patterns and some of my self esteem dilemmas . I was looking for ideas with substance, however after reading this (which can be done easily in an hour) and then revisiting it, i have yet to get anything of TRUE substance. It has cute little quotes, but i felt like i was reading a pamphlet you get in physical ed in high school. I felt like the author took the subject too lightly and relied on the quotes to tell more than her words. I was so so so disappointed with it and would strongly recommend you find another book that was written for mature adults looking for real life answers and not a book with little pick-me-up/cute-sy quotes.

If you're a woman, odds are you're not happy with your body. You probably can't remember when you weren't at war with your belly or your thighs. (Men are beginning to catch up with their own versions of body discontent.) Western culture provides you with a steady stream of images and advice about an often unattainable "right" way to look, feeding your feelings that you just aren't acceptable as you are.

Enter Pat Ballard with 10 Steps to Loving Your Body (No Matter What Size You Are) to supply a badly-needed alternative voice! Ballard's easy-to-read, easy-to-use volume is like having your own personal coach and cheerleader for ending the warfare and making peace with the body you have. She's out in front to show you the way, behind you to nudge you forward, and beside you offering support and encouragement for every step (all 10!) of your journey. She accomplishes this with guidelines (" . . . our bodies know what they want to look like"), worksheets to practice new ways of thinking and behaving (". . .look for 10 good things about [your] body and try to develop them"), and the greatest collection of inspirational quotes for body-love and general self-respect you're likely to find anywhere (for example, from Gloria Steinem, " `Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on it's own terms.' " or, from an unknown author, "'It's not who you are that holds you back; it's who you think you're not.' ")

10 Steps is your body's best friend in pocket form. I'm delighted to have it on hand to recommend--personally and professionally--to anyone struggling with body image and the inkling that it's better to embrace than fight the one-and-only body you have.

Pat Ballard's book is short, sweet and to the point: 10 wonderful, easy steps that help remind you to accept, love, and cherish your body today, as it is. Filled with inspiring quotes and Pat's own writing, this is the perfect book to keep on your desk, by your nightstand, or in your purse. Open it to any page whenever you need a positive reminder of your unique beauty and worth.

This is a quick book to read and has great quotes and great tips for having the positive self-image we all deserve.