“Befriending Your Body is a valuable resource for creating a new relationship with your body and with food. Full of meditation, yoga, and self-compassion practices, this wise and loving book will be a much needed antidote to body-shaming and self-loathing, which plague so many women. This book is a healing gift. (Dr. Susan Pollak, co-author of Sitting Together: Essential Skills for Mindfulness-Based Psychotherapy; president, Institute for Meditation and Psychotherapy; co-founder, Center for Mindfulness and Compassion, Harvard Medical School)

“Ann Saffi Biasetti, like all the best teachers of self-compassion, shares her teaching through her loving connected presence. You can feel it when you are in her presence, and you can feel it in the pages of this warm, supportive, and encouraging book. Drawing upon the latest science related to self-compassion and its role in well-being, wellness, and health, Ann weaves this knowledge and wisdom into a practical guide to finding a new relationship between you and you: the most important (and often the most conflicted) relationship a human being can have. Ann teaches how having a warm and encouraging relationship with ourselves can then allow us to make change, not because we aren’t good enough as we are, but because we long for something better. Reading this book is motivating, encouraging, inspiring, and most of all, compassionate. You’ll be glad you followed this path with the author.” (Steven D. Hickman, PsyD, associate clinical professor, University of California at San Diego, executive director of the Center for Mindful Self-Compassion, and founding director of the UC San Diego Center for Mindfulness)

“While not minimizing the challenges involved, Ann Saffi Biasetti provides encouragement and hope that through the practice of self-compassion and embodiment, recovery from disordered eating can happen.” (Laura Weisberg, PhD, assistant professor, Duke Center for Eating Disorders, Duke University Medical Center)