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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Healing the Whole Body: Stories and Practices for Healing Food and Body Shame--An Internal Family Systems Approach

Healing the Whole Body: Stories and Practices for Healing Food and Body Shame--An Internal Family Systems Approach

Richards, Diana, Rdn Ldn

Paperback

Addiction & RecoveryGeneral PsychologyMental Health

Publisher Price: $21.95

PREORDER - Expected ship date April 20, 2027

ISBN13: 9798889844105
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
Published: Apr 20 2027
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.81
Language: English
An IFS approach to healing disordered eating and cultivating body trust--a parts-oriented path to understanding your parts, releasing body shame, and reclaiming embodied self-worth

Healing the Whole Body offers a compassionate, paradigm-shifting approach to healing our relationship with food, body, and self. Written by Diana Dugan Richards, an Internal Family Systems (IFS)-trained nutrition therapist, this book gives us practical tools and integrated frameworks to shed the deeply ingrained belief that our bodies--not diet culture, not systemic forces--are the problem.

Richards uses an IFS lens to help us discover and explore the inner parts of us that each hold their own wounds, shames, fears, and deeply held beliefs about our bodies--and our worth. These parts also represent facets of our identities, life stories, and experiences. Together, they carry important wisdom for reconnecting to our bodies and advancing recovery.

Through personal narrative, client stories, practical exercises, and IFS insight, Richards guides us to:

  • Reframe disordered eating as a protective, adaptive response--not a personal failure
  • Recognize and relate to the inner voices that drive patterns like calorie restriction, bingeing, and body control
  • Identify and understand our internal parts and their protective roles
  • Work with inner conflicts and judgments with curiosity instead of control
  • Release inherited beliefs about body, worth, and scarcity
  • Use practical tools like parts-mapping and the 6 Fs

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