The Body-Based Obsessions Workbook

If you'd like to stop feeling like your body is the enemy, this one-of-a-kind book is for you! Molly Bradley Schiffer gives you a step-by-step plan for changing your relationship with your body—its sensations, processes, imperfections, and more—so you can turn your attention outward, instead of inward, to create the life you want to live.

Molly has filled a notable gap in the literature by providing an easy-to-read, self-guided approach to addressing body-based obsessional distress. The text covers an array of body-based concerns, and incorporates the latest in evidence-based therapeutic approaches. This well-written book is ideally suited to help the reader make progress in improving their body-based obsessions.

Schiffer explores, with deep compassion, anxieties that rest on a vigilant and hyper-responsible relationship to body and brain. With written exercises to slow down and observe how you think and behave, she helps you to stop mental and physical maneuvers that backfire and reinforce anxiety. She explains how you got so tied up. There are excellent sections on preoccupations about the mind, sanity and mood, and on torturous sensorimotor hyperawareness.