Change Your Mind, Change Your Body - by Ann Kearney-Cooke & Florence Isaacs (Paperback)

About the Book

With fantastic exercises, quizzes, and illuminating real-life stories, Kearney-Cooke gives women all the tools they need to stop fighting their bodies and renegotiate their relationships with their bodies, themselves, and the people around them.

Book Synopsis

The rest of your life lies ahead of you. Do you want to spend it fighting your body and worrying about things you can't change? Or do you want to live your life to its fullest by combining age, experience, and creativity to develop a new vision for your body and self?

Women in midlife face many changes, such as children growing up, returning to the workforce, or retiring from it. Then there are the physical changes: crow's-feet, saggy arms, an expanding waistline. The transformations within us and around us can leave us feeling anxious, ineffective, and out of control, especially in a culture that defines midlife as the beginning of a decline. It's easy to look at our lives and ourselves and wish we could turn back the clock, but it doesn't have to be that way.
Midlife is a time of opportunity to renew, grow strong, set new goals, and redefine who you are. Change Your Mind, Change Your Body: Feeling Good About Your Body and Self After 40 gives you the tools you need to utilize your wisdom and experiences to shape a new vision of who you are and what you want your life to look like -- right now.
Learn how to:
- Cope with the physical and mental changes that midlife brings
- Revamp ideas of what is sexy and desirable
- Turn fears of aging into tools for positive growth
- Develop a positive, realistic body image
- Embrace who you are and who you will become
- Set weight and exercise goals you can really achieve
- Help our daughters create a positive self-image
You have the power to renegotiate your relationship with your body, yourself, and the world around you, and Change Your Mind, Change Your Body will help you discover and use it.

Review Quotes

"Change Your Mind, Change Your Body: Feeling Good About Your Body and Self After Age 40, is an easy to read, inspiring, nurturing, and empowering book, based on years of practice of a skilled clinical psychologist."
-- Maureen Dymek-Valentine, PhD University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Academy for Eating Disorders Newsletter

About the Author

Ann Kearney-Cooke, PhD, is the director of the Cincinnati Psychotherapy Institute. She has been named a distinguished scholar for the Partnership for Women's Health at Columbia University in New York, where she developed the curriculum for the Helping Girls Become Strong Women Project. She has lectured at more than 150 conferences and written on the treatment of eating disorders, body image, and self-esteem. She was honored as a fellow by the American Psychological Association for her outstanding contributions to the psychology of women. She is the psychological expert for the monthly "Ask The Therapist" column of Shape magazine. Her work has been featured on shows such as NBC's Today, CBS's The Morning Show, and Oprah.