FINDING PEACE WITH YOUR BODY:
A Body Image Guide for Women
​Finding Peace with Your Body weaves together my personal story with my work as a psychotherapist to create an interactive self-help guidebook that will help readers find harmony with their bodies. This is an interactive book with a fresh perspective that encourages the reader to dive deeper into their own personal history and change their relationship with their body for the better. The book includes personal anecdotes, theoretical orientation, and specific clinical intervention in a way that helps the reader understand historical context, personal experience, and the ability to create direct behavioral and cognitive change in their life. Organized so that it can be used by individuals or practitioners assisting their clients along the journey of recovery from an eating disorder, this book offers readers hope, practical tools, and a road map for working through specific body image issues with practical skills and therapeutic interventions.
A note from Johanna:
I was completely unsurprised to learn that research shows that around 91% of women have experienced shame, disappointment, and negativity around their physical bodies. Our culture is up against an epidemic of body image issues that is only exacerbated by social media. It has become clear to me that we need resources that will safeguard us and our children from the problematic messaging that leads to body self-hatred. After nearly fifteen years working in this field, I've realized that finding peace with our bodies can feel like a lonely and hopeless process, but my hope is that women who read this book will realize that they are not alone, that they are able to find peace with their bodies, and that they are equipped to raise children with healthy body image.
ENDORSEMENTS
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"Finding Peace with Your Body: A Body Image Guide for Women by Johanna Kulp, MSW, LCSW is a powerful resource for anyone trying to reclaim a better body image! Her book is filled with strategies and client examples that demonstrate the layers of disrupted body image. I especially loved the chapter on trauma, the impact it leaves on one’s image and how to create physical and emotional safety to heal one’s body image. Readers will gain enormous insight into the role of self-compassion to create change, in the aftermath of a multitude of mental health struggles. I will be recommending this book to trauma survivors, supporters and clinicians who treat warriors of eating disorders, body dysmorphia and trauma!"
Shari Botwin, LCSW, trauma therapist, author, media contributor and expert witness
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"For anyone who has ever thought their body was not good enough, this book will make you think and be at peace with your body. Writing with an engaging blend of personal narrative, case studies, psychological research, and therapeutic advice, Johanna Kulp challenges everything the diet industry and diet culture has wrongly told you for years. You will long reflect on what you learn from this book."
Dr. Margaret L. Andersen, professor of Sociology Emerita, University of Delaware
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WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING
"Johanna’s content has challenged me to embrace self-acceptance as a powerful act, both for myself and my kids. Her words and teachings have empowered me to shift the narrative, breaking the cycle of damage and shame, and reminding myself—and helping me teach my kids—that we are worthy of taking up space and showing up exactly as we are." ~Bridget
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"I feel seen and understood, but also challenged, by what Johanna shares. She's propelled me to shift my perspective about my body and to appreciate my body and live in it, instead of judging it." ~Jamie
"Johanna has facilitated a significant shift in my perspective, enabling me to move away from a focus on physical appearance and towards an appreciation for my body's functionality. She has also provided valuable guidance on refining my self-talk regarding body image, particularly in the presence of my children." ~Nina