The Art Of Body Acceptance

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Licensed art therapist and creator of the popular Instagram account The Body Image Therapist Ashlee Bennett uses mindful art therapy to help you improve your body image and promote better mental health. Her knack for simplifying complex issues and promoting overall healing through art is transformative—and the best part is that your art doesn’t have to be “good” to change your life. Through a variety of art prompts—like expressive self-portraits, sculptures and visual timelines—therapeutic techniques and approachable psychoeducation, Ashlee aids you in reclaiming your creativity and harnessing that creative energy to examine how you feel about your body, investigate the ways in which social constructs affect your sense of self and explore the layers of your identity. Even if you don’t consider yourself an “artist,” Ashlee’s prompts and endless knowledge help you untangle your emotions, personal history and social conditioning and guide you every step of the way in your journey to better body image and self-acceptance. With warmth and understanding, Ashlee gives you all the artistic and therapeutic tools you need to manage your perception of self from the outside in.