Your Body Never Meant You Any Harm: A Somatic Guide to Forgiving and Healing Your Relationship with Your Body

A compassionate guide for women seeking to heal the rift with their bodies, from a somatic psychotherapist. Follow a step-by-step, research-based series of somatic practices to help you forgive, reconnect with, and trust your body.

If you’ve spent years feeling at odds with your body, you are not alone—and you are not to blame. Our culture encourages women to mistrust, judge, and disconnect from their bodies, perpetuating cycles of shame and self-criticism. Your Body Never Meant You Any Harm gently helps you break free from these patterns and begin a new, nurturing relationship with your body.

Each chapter offers gentle guidance, reflective exercises, and trauma-informed somatic practices to help you uncover the roots of disconnection and attune to your body’s wisdom. Thoughtfully structured, your journey begins by establishing a foundation of understanding and compassion, then moves through the tender work of meeting grief, regret, shame, and forgiveness.

Drawing on her clinical expertise and original research, somatic psychotherapist Ann Saffi Biasetti provides a safe and supportive path for women ready to move beyond self-criticism and rediscover a sense of wholeness. With warmth and care, she guides you through each stage of body forgiveness, offering support that helps you feel seen, understood, and empowered to create lasting change.

Whether you struggle with body image disturbance, disordered eating, illness, aging, or simply long to feel at home in your body, this book provides clear guidance and gentle encouragement. It is an invitation to return to yourself, embrace your body with kindness, and experience a more connected, embodied life.