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I had not considered that the way health professionals approach weight loss is incomplete and potentially harmful if they do not dig for understanding of why the person is where they are. Such an important understanding! --Dr. Alauna Curry, Trauma Psychiatrist, creator of Empathy Skills PracticeTM for Traumatized Humans and founder of the Dr. Alauna Trauma Recovery Institute With deep compassion, precise awareness, and great skills, Bedrick elicits what is truly behind women's 'failure' around dieting. --Ayako Aya Fujisaki PhD, LPC Bedrick celebrates the deep wisdom held in... hearts, minds, and bodies of women in this powerful collection of profiles. This emotional, illuminating discussion will appeal to fans of Brene Brown. --Publishers Weekly The intersectionality of racism and sexism is a complex and multi-faceted phenomenon that exacerbates the weight struggle among Black women. David Bedrick gets it. --Mary Canty Merrill, PhD, author of Why Black Lives Matter (Too) Bedrick's understanding of the impact of sexism, female socialization, and internalized oppression on the emotional and physical health and wellness of women is palpable on every page and woven through every story. --Jan Dworkin, PhD, psychologist and author of Make Love Better: How to Own Your Story, Connect with Your Partner, and Deepen Your Relationship Practice

Bedrick celebrates the deep wisdom held in... hearts, minds, and bodies of women in this powerful collection of profiles. This emotional, illuminating discussion will appeal to fans of Brene Brown. --Publishers Weekly

"""Chronic shame and self-disgust is a nightmare. This book's perspective helps me to wake up from that nightmare into the new, gentler, deeply compassionate, honoring world Bedrick is cultivating. I wish for everyone to have a taste of this world."" --Esther Dee, U.S. ""I am one and all of these women in varying degrees and I, through reading this important work, have embraced Bedrick's witness to my and other women's struggle for the freedom to feel validated and live authentically."" --Wanda Garcia, M.Ed., U.S. ""I never saw an overweight woman in any of these stories. I saw again and again a wonderful and beautiful soul. In every single story, these shared insights that touched me, made me reflect. I felt a lot of sympathy (tears flowed!) and happiness for these women."" --Gertrud Kessler, psychotherapist, Switzerland ""The author's compassionate gaze shines through every page, as this book takes me beyond what is deemed the appropriate health-and-body-weight conversation to where the deepest desires and self-knowing inside our bodies is wanting us truly to go: into the long-ignored, inconvenient, non-commodifiable but ultimately transcendent conversation."" --Jill Hileman, U.S. ""I had not considered that the way health professionals approach weight loss is incomplete and potentially harmful if they do not dig for understanding of why the person is where they are. Such an important understanding!"" --Dr. Alauna Curry, Trauma Psychiatrist, creator of Empathy Skills PracticeTM for Traumatized Humans and founder of the Dr. Alauna Trauma Recovery Institute ""With deep compassion, precise awareness, and great skills, Bedrick elicits what is truly behind women's 'failure' around dieting."" --Ayako ""Aya"" Fujisaki PhD, LPC ""What ties all these stories together is the quiet violence perpetuated on our bodies and psyches due to cultural bias and conditioning, however insidious, and the visible and invisible marks these leave on us. You will be left with a feeling of connectedness--of 'I am not alone in this'--and an overwhelming sense of love."" --Ernestine Kontogianni, South Africa ""Bedrick offers empathic interventions and realistic options for the empowerment of individuals seeing themselves more holistically by recognizing political, cultural, and social factors that affect human lives across diverse groups."" --Fannie LeFlore, Social Entrepreneur, Activist, Psychotherapist and Writer/Editor ""Bedrick celebrates 'the deep wisdom held in... hearts, minds, and bodies' of women in this powerful collection of profiles. This emotional, illuminating discussion will appeal to fans of Brene Brown."" --Publishers Weekly ""Bedrick's understanding of the impact of sexism, female socialization, and internalized oppression on the emotional and physical health and wellness of women is palpable on every page and woven through every story."" --Jan Dworkin, PhD, psychologist and author of Make Love Better: How to Own Your Story, Connect with Your Partner, and Deepen Your Relationship Practice ""The intersectionality of racism and sexism is a complex and multi-faceted phenomenon that exacerbates the weight struggle among Black women. David Bedrick gets it."" --Mary Canty Merrill, PhD, author of Why Black Lives Matter (Too)"

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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.

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