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Dear Body, Thank You: Nurturing a relationship with the body through love letters

If you’ve ever struggled to accept your body, this book is for you. Perfectionism, comparison, anxiety and overthinking, relationship to food and movement, changes and pain as the body ages – I’ve wrestled with them all. Decades of resistance and trying to control my body left me terribly confused about how to care for myself. Throw in the media and other people’s opinions and it’s no wonder so many of us struggle to give our bodies what they need. Can you relate?

After some traumatizing experiences in my body, I realized I had 2 choices: learn to live with suffering for the rest of my life, or learn how to be a better partner to my body. I chose the latter.

Dear Body, Thank You will take you through everyday moments of complication and courage as I question the behaviors my culture handed down to me and trade them in for new authentic ways. In my signature style of uncensored honesty, I weave in personal letters I wrote to my body to cultivate compassion, respect, and trust in this vital relationship.

With prompts and journal pages, Dear Body, Thank You invites you to explore your own relationship with your body through the practice of letter writing. When we open up the lines of communication with our bodies, we may find the answers we seek, and more, have been within us all along. From there, we get to decide how to show up.

Dear Body, Thank You is not just a book; it’s a prayer for humanity that we all find our way to more love and acceptance in our marvelous and wise body.

“I see the body as a blessing and a burden, bringing both pleasure and discomfort. But isn’t that the human experience: a spectrum of highs and lows, ebbs and flows, and everything in between? Perhaps then the body is the perfect vehicle to carry us through life. It can be our greatest teacher and ally if we learn to trust and respect it.”

– Dear Body, Thank You

Praise for Dear Body, Thank You

Jessica provides relatable thoughts and experiences for anyone who has struggled with their body or is looking to improve their relationship with their body. As a clinical therapist who recovered from an eating disorder, this book gives light to a conversation around the influence our external world has on our inner world. It gives true life examples of how our patterned behavior and thoughts can be distorted in an unrealistic expectation. I’d recommend this book to anyone who has or would like to have children. If we as individuals are willing to look at our own relationship to food and our bodies, we have a significant chance to improve the outcomes for our future generations.

Alexandra Ruberti, Creative Healing Practitioner & Therapist