This book invites a body image paradigm shift.

"I will be recommending this wonderful book to many of my patients!" - Jennifer Guadiani, MD

"I will be recommending this wonderful book to many of my patients!" - Jennifer Guadiani, MD

Body Image
Inside Out

The BodySelf’s “inside out” approach invites you to explore rather than ignore your body image messages and teaches you to become more skillful at listening, interpreting and responding to your body image thoughts, so that you can develop a more constructive and connected relationship.

Think of it like couples therapy for you and your body image. 

Book Praise

  • “Deb Schachter and Whitney Otto illuminate the path to transforming your relationship with body shame. Through a combination of thoughtful discussions, reflections, and exercises, Body Image Inside Out will help you shift from trying to push past your negative body image to regarding it as a meaningful source of information that will help you find the off-ramp from endless shame spirals. Clinicians will also appreciate this engaging, non-pathologizing workbook as a valuable resource that will facilitate their clients’ healing.”

    Jeanne Catanzaro, Ph.D.
    Author of Unburdened Eating: Healing Your Relationship with Food and Your Body Using an Internal Family Systems Approach

  • “I have been in the field of eating disorders for over four decades and can attest to the fact that dealing with body image is one of the most complex and complicated aspects of my work. Whitney and Deb provide readers with inspiration, education and exercises to heal body image wounds and have years of experience helping others turn their relationship with their bodies, as they put it, from “villain” to “hero.” Both clinicians and clients can benefit from reading this book.”

    Carolyn Costin, MA, MEd, MFT, CEDS, FAED
    The Carolyn Costin Institute and Author of The Eating Disorder Sourcebook, 8 Keys to Recovery From an Eating Disorder

  • “As an Olympic athlete for almost two decades, I grounded my identity in what my body could do. Now that I am retired from competition, I face the loss of this identity. When I began reading Body Image Inside Out, tears rolled down my face as I realized how those feelings of loss are connected to my body. This book helped me forge a new relationship with my body and, by extension, a new identity.”

    Caryn Davies
    2x Olympic Champion, Founder, Podium Law, 2023 Recipient of the Thomas Keller Medal

  • “Deb and Whitney have written the body image book I’ve longed to hand to all of my clients. Through relatable vignettes and engaging exercises, they answer the illusive question, “What do I do with how badly I feel in and about my body?” Our bodies have never been the problem. And Body Image Inside Out shows readers that not only are our bodies not a problem to be solved but that turning towards our negative body image has the power to reveal what we most need to know about ourselves. If you have ever struggled with your body image, there’s something in this book for you.”

    Marci Evans, MS, RDN, LDN
    Food and Body Image Healers®

  • “At last, an inspiring, provocative and effective guide for how to love and respect our bodies and ourselves. This superbly friendly, well-written book gives real muscle to the process of healing a loveless marriage with our bodies that many of us find ourselves in. The stories and exercises dance off the page with effortless ease, making real, tangible change feel not only possible but joyful, happening moment by moment as you read. Liberating and powerful, this is the best, most practical book about body image I have come across.”

    Claire Dale
    Founder/Director Physical Intelligence Institute, Author of the award-winning book Physical Intelligence

  • “This book provides a much-needed resource for helping heal body image. Using vivid real-world cases and practical exercises, Body Image Inside Out convincingly and compassionately shows that body image challenges have more to do with our relational life and emotional circumstances than they do with the actual body we find ourselves in. Readers will find this to be a deeply healing experience. I will be recommending this wonderful book to many of my patients!”

    Jennifer L. Gaudiani, MD, CEDS-C, FAED
    Founder & Medical Director of the Gaudiani Clinic and Author of Sick Enough: A Guide to the Medical Complications of Eating Disorders

  • “I wish I could jump in a sporty time machine and give this book to my teenage self. Grateful to be reading it now! If you’ve had it with being an enemy (or frenemy) of your body, read this book!”

    Amanda Hennessey
    Public Speaking Coach, Actress and Author of Your Guide to Public Speaking

  • “How we see ourselves indeed changes everything and I am in awe of the depth and importance of the wisdom in this book. I have never before explored how my body image could become a living, daily prompt for me to more deeply understand myself and my story. I have never before considered my body image as a hero. Body Image Inside Out is full of powerful, clarifying and diverse stories that informed and inspired me to see how body image + curiosity + compassion + connection can be a formula for powerful healing and change . . . in both ourselves and the world. This book took my understanding of the profound intelligence that lives in our bodies to another level. I will return to these potent questions and exercises again and again and am already looking in the mirror and walking through the world differently because of what I learned.”

    Cara Jones
    Coach, Storyteller, Untethered Voice Podcast Host

  • “In 20 years of working with women, I’ve never met one who hasn’t spent hours, months, years or decades grappling with and lamenting her body image. Of all the relationships a woman must navigate in a misogynist culture, it is the relationship to her body image that is perhaps the most complicated, confusing and confronting. Body Image Inside Out is a powerful and practical guide for flipping the paradigm of body-as-enemy to body as an intelligent ally and vessel of wisdom. A must read for every woman, every feminist and every body.”

    Megan Jo Wilson
    Founder, Rockstar Camp for Women

  • “Body Image Inside Out will help you dive deep into your body image story while acting as a compassionate guide toward decoding body peace. I wish I had this resource years ago.”

    Leslie Schilling, RD
    Author of Feed Yourself

  • “As an Olympic athlete I was rewarded for pushing my body past my physical and mental limits. I had to learn that my body is not just a vehicle for my goals. This insightful book offers a brand new and heart centered perspective on how to build friendship and connection with one’s body, and how to tap into its wisdom.”

    Iris Zimmermann
    US Olympic Fencer, Executive Coach, Untrained Podcast Co-host

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