Chapter One: The Shape of Womanhood

Jennifer’s story
Immigrants in a changing world
Identity development is lifelong
Step Back Exercise

Chapter Two: Fact vs. Fiction: How Survival Shapes the Body

The body’s hard-wired famine response
Dieting = Pounds on vacation
Benefits of menopausal fat cells
What happens when we diet

Chapter Three: Women’s Bodies; Women’s Lives 

Changing shape of the adult female body
Changing Shape of Women’s Lives
Loss inventory & Change balance sheet

Chapter Four: The Shape of Eating Disorders

Kitty’s story
Specific eating disorders
My relationship to food and my body
Eating disorders Self assessment

Chapter Six: Beyond Eating Disorders: Body Image Distress

Body dysmorphic disorder
Exercise abuse, cosmetic surgery, compulsive shopping
Warning to athletes
Shape of your body image self assessment

Chapter Seven: So why do people do it?

Who, where and why has them
The “Voice” and Denial
physician’s role in preventing of ED
Detecting the Voice quiz

Chapter Eight: How family shapes us 

Joan’s story
Father Hunger & Mom in the Mirror
Superwoman & Spouses
Surviving Eating Disorders & Body Image Despair: Ten Steps for Spouses

Chapter Nine: The New Extended Family: How Culture Shapes Us

Women and Wanting
Ad addiction
Fashion and Fashism
Steps for aging beautifully

Chapter Ten: The shape of recovery

Can things Change?
The Shape of treatment
New ways to shape your thinking
Getting a journal started

Chapter Eleven: Thinking and coping in new ways

Minding the mind
Sarah’s story
Life is not a dress rehearsal
Sidebar: Women we admire
Scanning the past—family history

Chapter Twelve: Embracing ourselves

The right stuff vs. the real stuff
New relationship with food & body
New Vision for our bodies and health
Exercise your own bill of rights
25 ways to love your body