Acknowledgements. Introduction. 1. Body Image Theory. 2. Art Therapy Theory. 3. Introducing Mindfulness and other DBT Practices. 4. Lessons from the Ocean: Relaxation and Guided Image Exercises. 5. Art and Mindfulness: Navigating the Waters of Life. 6. My Purse: Container of Life. 7. Beyond Skin Deep: Barbie Finds her Voice. 8. Reframing our Frame: A Celebration of the Human Body. 9. Notion of Emotions: Rating Intensity and Environmental Influence. 10. Mirror, Mirror: True Reflection of Self. 11. Heads and Tales: Creating a Body for Life. 12. Tree of Life: Exploring Self in Nature. 13. A Vase of Flowers: Projection of Self in Still Life. 14. Hero's Journey. Notes. Glossary. Selected Bibliography. Index.
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Margaret Hunter provides a navigational chart with which to address the often stormy waters on the voyage to body satisfaction. The exercises will appeal to therapists, teachers, school counsellors and women; they can be used to structure therapy or educational groups. However they are used, the contents of the book promise an engaging and rewarding journey to self. - Lisa D. Hinz, PhD, author of Drawing from Within: Using Art to Treat Eating DisordersWhen I walk to the mirror, I intend to see myself but I assess my vehicle. I am trying to see myself, but alas it is the vehicle that is the lens that I am looking through These are the waters that Margaret Hunter has set her course through in this beautiful text. She navigates through mirrors and lenses and culture. [She] combines the empathetic understanding of a practitioner who has metaphorically held the hands of many women with faulty lenses with the clinician's understanding of the complexity of navigation.-from the foreword by Dr Richard Carolan, licensed psychologist, board certified art therapist and department chair of Notre Dame de Namur University's Art Therapy graduate program, San Francisco Bay Area