When you hate your body, life is hard. While you may have a successful career, friends you adore, and a happy family life, your disgust about your body will seep into these areas, causing pain and suffering. We’re here to help you remove this stumbling block. When you feel at home in your body, you feel more at home with yourself. You enjoy sex, you enjoy the company of other women (instead of being threatened by them,) and you have the confidence to pursue your dreams and goals.

To begin your journey, you can download our free book on loving your body, Heal Your Body Image:  An Inspiring, Step by Step Guide to Feeling Beautiful. You can also read the helpful articles below on loving your body, freeing yourself from jealousy, and how to lose weight safely with your self-esteem intact.

For the most benefit, Support Forum membership site. You’ll have access to forums, special First Ourselves podcasts, and participate in programs on healing your body image and healing your relationship with food.

• Your envy or jealousy of another woman is a gift. Learn how you can both free yourself from jealousy and use your envy to feel more beautiful.

• Beauty is a valid need – and not a vanity that needs to be squelched. Do you honor your need to feel beautiful? To enjoy beautiful surroundings or beautiful things? Learn more about the spiritual nature of beauty.

• Are you consumed about your weight, your size or your appearance? Learn helpful tips on acceptance, so you can release the control or compulsion you feel about your body.

• Thinking about losing weight? Here are some ways to distinguish between unhealthy and healthy weight loss.

• Kindness, compassion and gentleness are how you feel good in your body, no matter what size you are.

• Read on for tips and tools to help you find your ideal body weight.

• Having a fat day? A bad hair day? How to feel good about your body when you don’t love your body.

• Are you sensitive? Someone who picks up easily on other people’s thoughts and emotions? This sensitivity can impact your body image – and may make you more susceptible to body image issues.