{"product_id":"the-body-sacred","title":"The Body Sacred","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhen 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\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44964563877941,"sku":"ByrdShop_0738707619","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780738707617.jpg?v=1770466404","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-body-sacred","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}