Consciousness creates the body. Our bodies are made up of dynamic energy systems that are affected by our diets, relationships, heredity, and culture and the interplay of all these factors and activities... We cannot hope to reclaim our bodily wisdom and inherent ability to create health without first understanding the influence of our society on how we think about and care for our bodies.

Because connection with others and our "best self" is the most primal need we have, shame feels absolutely awful.

The message "Your body isn't good enough" translates in a little girls mind to "YOU aren't good enough." This becomes a core belief that gets passed on to the next generation.

The female body was designed as a source of pleasure, fertility, movement, strength and wellbeing.

All over the world today, many girls still get the idea that their bodies are somehow not as good as a boy's body. These girls - who later grow up to be women with girls of their own - get the message that they are weaker in spirit, not worth educating, somehow cursed because of their menstrual cycle, and so forth.

Understand that you have the ability to get healthy and stay healthy.

Our inner guidance comes to us through our feelings and body wisdom first -- not through intellectual understanding.