Body Image Inside Out: A Revolutionary Approach to Body Image Healing

Schachter, a therapist, and Otto, an executive coach, are longtime friends and collaborators on the BodySelf Workshop sessions. This book delivers some of the body image therapy work they do in their sessions. The authors recognize they are approaching body image from uniquely privileged positions as women who are straight-sized, able-bodied, white, and cisgender, and they acknowledge the work that others, including Sonya Renee Taylor and Aubrey Gordon, have brought to the concept of body liberation. Their embodied experiences will resonate with readers who have struggled with body changes caused, for instance, by taking on a sedentary desk job and experiencing creeping weight gain. Via their stories of “feeling fat,” aging, and more, Schachter and Otto offer empathetic wisdom that is then woven into chapters built around a framing principle, a series of workbook exercises, and a concluding section that the authors suggest will empower readers to let go of the shame that emerges as they explore their body image issues.