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Anita Johnson

Anita Johnson Quotes

Total quotes: 4

Anita Johnson

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Total quotes: 4

“Counting calories is not the answer, because eating is not the problem.”

— Anita Johnson, Eating In the Light of the Moon

Tagged: Body, Bodylore, self, Self-Image

“Recovery from disordered eating begins with the understanding that the disordered eating behavior served you when your goal was survival.”

— Anita Johnson, Eating In the Light of the Moon

Tagged: Body, Bodylore, Recovery

“When a woman is struggling to recover from disordered eating, it is important for her to remember that food is a metaphor and that through the process of understanding that metaphor, healing begins.”

— Anita Johnson, Eating In the Light of the Moon

Tagged: Body, Bodylore, Recovery, Self-Awareness Is The Healing

“If so, why has a naturally masculine shape (broad shoulders, no waist, narrow hips, flat belly) become the ideal for the female body? Why is it that those aspects of a woman’s body that are most closely related to her innate female power, the capacity of her belly, hips, and thighs to carry and sustain life, are diminished in our society’s version of a beautiful woman?”

— Anita Johnson, Eating In the Light of the Moon

Tagged: Body, Bodylore, self, Self-Image

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