Weight of Abuse: Releasing Fear and Feeling Safe in Your Body

The Weight of Abuse offers a gentle, compassionate, and nonjudgmental approach to helping sexual abuse survivors (and their supporters) to release fear and feel safe in our bodies, so we can finally have the body we want and deserve.
The book will guide readers how to:
- Overcome fear and panic.
- Overcome weight change activating panic.
- Overcome the fear of attracting sexual attention.
- Overcome the negative impact of Inner Critics.
- Overcome blaming ourselves.

Claire G.: "Just a very good insight into how the two are linked - weight and our thought patterns. Also, some of the self-help tasks are really helpful and cause u to reflect."
J. Minks: "I'm grateful and thankful to have your ideas and direction... it helps me place a laser focus on the issue... it narrows everything down and allows me to zero in and make the needed changes! It really is very exciting!!! Thanks again! You have helped me immensely!"
Julie M: "I think that your writing is insightful, articulate... I found it very helpful."
L. M.: "I found that extremely interesting. A lot really resonated with me and it felt very powerful...Well done and thank you so much for sharing this with me. I feel like this will change people's lives."
Lindsey Huff: "Wow, what a wonderful and beautiful resource!!! It was really inspiring to read about your journey, and I am so impressed at how you were able to put it into words! I know it will help many people!!!"
Maia H.: "I really enjoyed it. I would really, really benefit from having this... to keep with me for the rest of my life. The activities and advice are infallible and I'm very grateful to have read it."

Kay Rivers, Ph.D. is a credentialed teacher, the Founder of Reimagining Ourselves, and a New York Times Bestselling Author having contributed to It Gets Better: Coming Out, Overcoming Bullying, and Creating a Life Worth Living that reached #16 on the New York Times Bestseller list. She holds a doctorate degree in psychology and uses her knowledge and experience as an educator and sexual assault survivor to help people who use weight as protection (and their supporters) to feel safe in our bodies, so we can finally have the body we want and deserve. Her website is: www.reimaginingourselves.org
Dr. Rivers lives in Northern California. She is married with three amazing children.