“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.com
“Recovery from disordered eating begins with the understanding that the disordered eating behavior served you when your goal was survival.”— Anita Johnson, amazon.com
“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.com