If My Ass Were Smaller Life Would be Perfect and Other Lies the Mean Girl in Your Head Tells You

Make Peace with Your Ass, at Long Last This is not a diet book. If you want to learn tips or tricks on how to flatten your tummy or reduce the amount of food you eat, this is not the book for you. This book is for women who are done dieting (or ready to give it up but haven't taken the plunge yet) Get off the diet cycle and make peace with your body. Learn how your "Mean Girl" has managed to sneak around lying, criticizing, and judging you for years! From the Back Cover: WE'VE ALL BEEN GIFTED ONE AMAZING BODY. And yet we spend most of our life disliking and not accepting it. Not anymore! In this anti-diet, Intuitive Eating, Body Positive book, author Julie Glynn weaves together her personal experience, her skills as a coach, educator, and storyteller. She uses her conversational tone, sense of humor, and love of analogies in this easy-to-read, informative, step-by-step guide where she takes you by the hand as you create a new narrative of self-acceptance and body positivity. You'll learn strategies and techniques to: Quiet the Mean Girl in your head Gain control of your negative thought patterns Establish a trusting relationship with yourself and your body Stop the diet cycle and start eating intuitively Reviews: Christiane Northrup, M.D., New York Times best-selling author of Goddesses Never Age, The Wisdom of Menopause, & Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom: "It's a very rare woman indeed whose life has not been 'tainted' by any insistent mean girl living in her mind. This mean girl tells her that she mustn't enjoy life and isn't worthy of joy, comfort, love, or freedom until she's a size 8, or 4, or 0— or until …. fill in the blank. The list is endless. The only way out–to the meaningful and joyful life you were meant to live–is to recognize that mean girl and outwit her. And that is just what Julie Glynn's book does so masterfully. Read it and show your inner mean girl the exit ramp. You'll be so glad that you did. " Caroline Dooner, Author of The F*ck It Diet: "In a culture where we are conditioned to be so mean to ourselves, Julie's book is important reading. It reminds us that our inner Mean Girl is trying to keep us in the vicious diet cycle. This book shows you how to break out of that cycle and learn to eat without guilt or regret." Connie Sobczak, author of Embody: Learning to Love Your Unique Body (and quiet that critical voice!), Co-Founder, The Body Positive: "Julie's book offers a refreshing message to women who are ready to make peace with their bodies. Her practical, fun activities provide a path to living with more freedom and joy, and who doesn't want that?" Biography JULIE GLYNN, M.Ed., M.A., coaches women to see more in themselves than what might be reflected in the mirror. She incorporates her many years of experience as a special educator (working with conflicted youth, some of whom were incarcerated) with her skills as an anti-diet, Mean Girl Transformation Coach, Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor, and Body Positive Facilitator. She lives part of the year in Hanover, New Hampshire, and the other part in Clearwater Beach, Florida, with her husband and adorable Cavalier, Carly. She has an undying love for whoopie pies. Learn more: http://julieglynn.com