“When a woman is struggling to recover from disordered eating, it is important for her to remember that food is a metaphor and that through the process of understanding that metaphor, healing begins.”— Anita Johnson, amazon.comTagged: Body, Bodylore, Recovery, Self-Awareness Is The Healing
“Recovery from disordered eating begins with the understanding that the disordered eating behavior served you when your goal was survival.”— Anita Johnson, amazon.comTagged: Body, Bodylore, Recovery
“If so, why has a naturally masculine shape (broad shoulders, no waist, narrow hips, flat belly) become the ideal for the female body? Why is it that those aspects of a woman’s body that are most closely related to her innate female power, the capacity of her belly, hips, and thighs to carry and sust…”— Anita Johnson, amazon.comTagged: Body, Bodylore, self, Self-Image
“Counting calories is not the answer, because eating is not the problem.”— Anita Johnson, amazon.comTagged: Body, Bodylore, self, Self-Image