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Love Your Body: Change the Way You Feel About the Body You Have

by Tami Brannon-Quan and Lisa Licavoli

182 pages; quality trade paperback (softcover); catalogue #06-2144; ISBN 1-4251-0387-1; US$19.95, C$22.94, EUR16.39, £11.47

Love Your Body: Change The Way You Feel About the Body You Have is a transformative workbook that will help you overcome negative self-talk and learn to accept your body.

About the Book

The book Love your Body: Change the Way You Feel About the Body You Have is designed to help guide you toward a better relationship with your body and improve body image. This transformative workbook offers a way out from the constant critical thoughts and words you think and speak about your body. It is designed to help you learn more about your body and yourself so you can start to appreciate the gift you have. Your constant negative thoughts, unrealistic expectations, perfectionism and body hatred keep you down, depressed and struggling. This book is about hope. It will help you end your struggles and learn to love and accept yourself.

With 80% of American women dissatisfied with their bodies, this book is a must have. Love Your Body: Change the Way You Feel About the Body You Have is filled with exercises, examples, techniques, personal stories and recommendations that will teach you to create an environment of self-nurturing and self-care. Statistics show that negative body image issues manifest themselves at a very early age. These scars will continue to hurt you if you don't stop, and take the time and energy to heal them now. The biggest gift you can give yourself is to let go of the constantly nagging voice that is inside your head telling you that your body doesn't measure up. Love your Body: Change the Way You Feel About the Body You Have can help free you of those negative, hurtful thoughts and help you create an accepting and nurturing attitude about your body.

About the Author

Tami Brannon-Quan, Ph.D., M.F.T. is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and Certified Addiction Specialist. Her area of specialty is treating individuals with eating disorders and body image issues. Tami has been counseling individuals, couples, families and leading groups since 1988. As the development of eating disorders is rising, so is a poor body image among women in general. Working with women stuggling with a poor body image has become a passion for Tami. It is through this work, that she co-authored Love Your Body: Change the Way You Feel About the Body You Have with Lisa Licavoli, R.D., C.C.N.

Tami also co-facilitates the "Love Your Body Workshop", an experiencial workshop she and Lisa Licavoli, R.D., C.C.N. designed to help women heal their body image issues. She has worked in residential treatment as the body image therapist, taught at Saddleback College for the Summer Eating Disorder Institute and has been a guest speaker at schools, colleges, and other organizations to educate the community and professionals in the area of eating disorders and body image.

Her private practice is in Laguna Hills, California.

Lisa Licavoli, R.D., C.C.N. is a Registered Dietician, Board Certified Clinical Nutritionist, and traditional Naturopath specializing in integrative nutrition and eating disorder recovery. She has been in practice for 27 years and is a much sought after speaker, writer and counselor. Lisa takes a body-centered approach to health and healing, with nutrition as a foundation. Due to her extensive work with clients who have eating disorders, she co-wrote the book Love Your Body: Change the Way You Feel About the Body You Have. The book is designed to move people towards accepting their body by recovering from unrealistic expectations, perfectionism, and body-hatred.

Lisa has helped thousands of people meet their health, weight, and fitness goals. She provides medical nutritional therapy for a variety of health-related issues. Besides counseling individuals and families, Lisa provides nutrition lectures for her corporate clients.

Lisa is extensively trained in the use of supplements and herbs, yoga, meditation, and counseling techniques to help assist people in attaining and maintaining their health and recovery. Without an adequate nutrient supply, a person may experience depression and anxiety, low energy, brain fog and memory loss, which are major obstacles to healing. Therefore, Lisa helps clients re-establish good eating habits and heal their relationship with food. Also, she utilizes cutting-edge laboratory tests to asses health status. These include neurotransmitter status, vitamin/mineral deficiencies, lipoprotein particle profile, delayed food hypersensitivity and fatty acid ratios.

As the founding chairperson of the Nutrition Therapist practice group, Lisa has helped guide her profession toward a better understanding of how to help clients make health changes. She has functioned as a mentor, community resource and taught student interns. Lisa taught college nutrition for many years.

Her office is located in Newport Beach, California.

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