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

We have the ability to become far more powerful and happy and healthy than we ever dreamed possible. At any age.

Learning to love yourself should not become a life-long challenge that most of us never meet.

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

If you have a headache every Monday morning when it is time for you to go to work, perhaps you're driving the wrong car, perhaps you're taking the wrong route, or you may be in the wrong line of work. Obviously, only you can figure out the message.

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.

Imagine what might happen if women emerged from their labor beds with a renewed sense of the strength and power of their bodies, and of their capacity for ecstasy through giving birth