The Body Sacred

About this book

When you look in the mirror do you see a Goddess? For anyone whos experienced a "fat day" or wished a doctor could make them younger Wiccan Dianne Sylvan speaks candidly about overcoming body hatred and offers a spiritual path back to Divine femininity. Sharing her own struggles with poor body image and self-acceptance Sylvan explores how the impossible standard of female beauty has developed and endured. Emphasizing the Mother the Healer the Lover and other archetypes of ones relationship with the sacred body the author provides a uniquely Wiccan approach to achieving a healthy new self-perception as Goddess. Praise: "This topical guide to reclaiming a positive self-image which builds on foundations presented in Sylvans earlier work and is written in a very personal and approachable style is not imbued with self-help jargon and platitudes but with the authors hard-won self-respect and perspective."Library Journal "Marrying cultural critique with user-friendly how-to Sylvan urges readers to reject societys insistence that they spend countless hours and billions of dollars trying to look thin and youthful. Rather says Sylvan women should embrace their bodies for what they areincarnations of the Goddess. Above all this book is practical... What distinguishes this book more than anything is Sylvans sense of humorshes tackling a serious topic but shell have readers laughing from page one."Publishers Weekly