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

True health is only possible when we understand the unity of our minds, emotions, spirits and physical bodies.

A woman's body image is absolutely paramount to her health.

The exceptional patient is the person who, despite their diagnosis, takes charge of their health and decides to be responsible to their illness or their condition and not necessarily feel responsible for it. One stance is drenched in blame and the other is full of power.

You have far more power to heal and be healthy than you ever dreamed possible. Your health is not outside of you. And you don't need to deteriorate with advancing age.

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.

We all have unresolved shame, because it is used as a tool to control behavior.