Pat Ballard's 10 Steps to Loving Your Body and Peace Treaty...

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I was exploring the Overcoming Overeating website this morning and discovered a

great little book by Pat Ballard: 10 Steps to Loving Your Body (No Matter What

Size You Are). Here's a link to the book excerpt, which has a lot of great

wisdom and quotes for the IE journey:

http://www.pearlsong.com/newsroom/patballard/10StepsBookExcerpt.pdf

I also discovered her Peace Treaty with Your Body:

http://www.pearlsong.com/newsroom/patballard/peacetreaty.pdf

After a little over 2 years on the IE path, I'm in the process of targeting in

more specifically on my emotional eating patterns and dealing with

distorted/media influenced perceptions/judgments about weight. I actually love

myself and I look at my body lovingly. At the same time, I have found myself

still having judgments around weight.

I don't want to claim the identity of being a " fat " woman or a " thin " woman. I'm

an intuitive eating and intuitive moving woman. What concerns me is that when

I went down dramatically in cloth size in the past, I noticed how I lost a

degree of my compassion and that I was more judgmental about weight. I also

" lost " that weight without doing any emotional work and while I was disconnected

from my body. It's almost like " judgment " was a misguided attempt to resist

becoming larger again. I'm looking forward to seeing how my IE journey

transforms that judgment.

Latoya