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Dr Ann Saffi Biasetti Author | Eating Disorders & Embodiment

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It's been a long time since I've introduced myself… and with my new book out, the timing couldn't be better. ✨

I help people reconnect with their bodies and come home to an embodied life.

I'm a Transpersonal Psychologist & Somatic Psychotherapist with 36+ years of clinical experience in embodiment and somatic healing. I also love consulting, teaching, and training other professionals in this work.

I created the Befriending Your Body Program — a trauma-informed approach for disordered eating & body image recovery through somatic self-compassion. It's helped hundreds of people find more ease with food, their bodies, and themselves.

I'm also a certified yoga therapist who nerds out on anatomy and teaches Restorative Yoga (one of the most powerful practices for sensory awareness & integration) and myofascial release yoga, an amazing practice for sensory awareness.

When I'm not working, you'll find me on my mat, teaching in my community, walking my dogs, or near the water — the element that speaks most to my body. 🌊

If this resonates, reach out!

📖 My new book Your Body Never Meant You Any Harm is 30% off at Shambhala Publications through August 20th using code WELCOMEHOME30, comment BOOK for the link.

🍂 September Befriending Your Body program — registration open now. Comment BFYB to join.

And, an embodiment community in development where we can join together in practice, learning and connection.

#embodiment #therapistsofig #author #newyorktherapy #eatingdisorderrecovery by @anembodiedlife

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It's finally HERE! IT'S RELEASE DAY!
My book is now yours 💛

I am SO grateful to you all. Thank you for following and believing in my work. May you find peace and freedom in these pages.

To celebrate launch week, you can receive 30% off your copy with code WELCOMEHOME30 when ordering through Shambhala*

If this message, this work, or these teachings have resonated with you, I would be honored to have this book in your hands and to ask you to please spread the word.

✨ Comment BOOK below and I'll send you the direct link to order your copy today! Let me know when you have so I can personally thank you.

*Code valid through August 20, 2026 on Shambhala.com. Enter code at checkout. Cannot be combined with other offers*

🎉 I'd also love to celebrate with you. Join me for my free live Zoom book launch, embodiment practice, discussion, and Q&A today (July 21st 1pm EST) where we'll explore the ideas behind the book together and I'll answer your questions. Comment ZOOM for the link. by @anembodiedlife

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My full manuscript and introduction to my next book is due this weekend! This has been many years in the making. I’m reading you just a tiny paragraph from the introduction. What do you think? If any of it interests you stay tuned! Proposed publication date is summer 2026! 😊💕#embodiment #somaticselfcompassion #embodiedselfcompassion #interoceptiveawareness #somaticpsychotherapy #somatichealing #bodyforgiveness #forgivingyourbody #yourbodynevermeantyouanyharm #newbook by @anembodiedlife

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Healing was never meant to happen alone.

So much of this work is about coming back into relationship with ourselves, with our bodies, and with one another.

Your Body Never Meant You Any Harm was written to be a companion for that journey, but I also wanted to create a space where we could practice, reflect, and learn together in real time.

I’m so excited to invite you to the first Your Body Never Meant You Any Harm Virtual Book Club on October 23rd, 12–1pm EST.

Come as you are. Bring your book, your questions, your reflections, and your curiosity.

Practice. Learn. Connect.

Registration is now open. Comment BOOKCLUB and I’ll send you the details.

#YourBodyNeverMeantYouAnyHarm #Embodiment #BodyRelationship #BodyForgiveness #VirtualBookClub by @anembodiedlife

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First Book Club for Your Body Never Meant You Any Harm is beginning next Friday, October 23 from 12 to 1 PM ET. Doesn’t matter where you are in your reading of the book join in with others to support you along the way. Will we practicing together and deepening our learning and understanding of these topics. Comment. EMBODY to receive the info and sign up! #yourbodynevermeantyouanyharm #embodiment #virtualbookclub #somaticpsychotherapy #befriendingyourbody by @anembodiedlife

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My own experience taught me how easy it is to override what the body is saying and look to the mind for all the answers.

This January, I’ll be bringing the work from Your Body Never Meant You Any Harm into an in-person retreat at Kripalu, where we’ll explore embodiment, Body Forgiveness, self-compassion, and how to reconnect with the body’s internal wisdom through experiential practice.

Comment RETREAT and I’ll send you the details.

#Embodiment #BodyForgiveness #SomaticHealing #SelfCompassion #YourBodyNeverMeantYouAnyHarm by @anembodiedlife

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For years, I believed the answer was somewhere in changing my body.

What I eventually learned was that the deeper change came from learning how to be with my body differently—to listen instead of ignore, soothe instead of punish, and stay present instead of abandoning myself when things felt difficult.

That shift became such an important part of my own journey, and eventually, the work I now share with others.

Same body. A very different relationship with it.

If this resonates, you’re warmly invited to explore this work inside Befriending Your Body.

Comment BFYB and I’ll send you the details about my next program beginning January, 2027.

#BefriendingYourBody #Embodiment #BodyRelationship #SelfCompassion by @anembodiedlife

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Woo hoo!🙌 i’m so excited to release my therapeutic yoga, practice videos, using myofascial release for sensory awareness coming at the end of October. Each video will be about 30 minutes long. Once purchase, you will have them forever so you can make a little at home yoga practice collection. These practices produce immediate economic regulation, and lasting sensory change. I guide you through a whole verbal dialogue of interoceptive awareness. Those of you reading along with my new book. Your Body Never Meant You Any Harm will learn a whole new level of reconnection. Comment.EMBODIMENT to join the waitlist to receive information. #embodiment #yourbodynevermeantyouanyharm #myofascialrelease #yoga #sensoryawareness by @anembodiedlife

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It’s not easy to be a body in this world.

So much of what we’ve been taught asks us to look at the body from the outside—to judge it, manage it, compare it, and determine its worth by appearance.

Embodiment invites us somewhere else.

Back toward sensation. Back toward intuition. Back toward the inner experience of being a body, rather than only thinking about one.

That is part of what I hope to cultivate inside my upcoming Embodiment Community: a space to learn, practice, reflect, and reconnect in community.

Comment EMBODIMENT to join my first live, virtual book club this October 23rd 12-1 pm ET

#Embodiment #BodyRelationship #Interoception #SomaticHealing #SelfCompassion by @anembodiedlife

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25 years ago is when I started working within a somatic framework for those in eating disorder recovery long before it was fashionable! I was even Co-chair of the somatic SIG through AED for a number of years. So I’ve been asking this mind body duality question about our treatment approach for years and we are still wrestling with it. I hope this conversation continues because we need it more now than ever! #embodiment #eatingdisorders #befriendingyourbody #befriendingyourbodyprogram #yourbodynevermeantyouanyharm by @anembodiedlife

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Ann Saffi Biasetti, PhD - “Your Body Never Meant You Any Harm: A Somatic Guide to Forgiving & Healing Your Relationship with Your Body” - Ep. 3165

“Your body longs for the same things your mind longs for: ease, steadiness, peace, stability, homeostasis, safety, security, connection, and most of all, belonging.

Your body has always been there to teach you the opposite of what you may feel toward it. It is here to teach you about forgiveness, compassion, and connection. Women, by nature, are connectors. We thrive on community and connection—with ourselves, our bodies, and one another. You are not meant to embark on this journey alone.”

Dr. Biasetti is the creator of the Befriending Your Body Program, a somatic, self-compassion-based recovery program for disordered eating, and the author of Befriending Your Body: A Self-Compassionate Approach to Freeing Yourself from Disordered Eating, and The Awakening Self-Compassion Card Deck: 52 Practices for Self-Care, Healing, and Growth.

Dr. Biasetti consults and lectures extensively on somatic psychotherapy, embodiment, polyvagal theory, and interoceptive awareness in the context of disordered eating and eating-disorder recovery.

Additionally, she serves as an instructor with the Center for Mindful Body Awareness and the Self-Compassion in Psychotherapy (SCIP) Program.
A featured Professional Education Systems Institute (PESI) presenter, Dr. Biasetti has appeared on multiple podcasts and trains professionals through the Befriending Your Body (BFYB) somatic certification training program.

Dr. Biasetti maintains a private therapy and consultation practice based in Saratoga Springs, New York, where she integrates mind-body modalities to facilitate holistic healing and personal growth. On any given day you can find her practicing and teaching yoga and meditaion in her community and enjoying her family, friends, nature, animals, music, and embodied living.

Find Dr. Ann Saffi Biasetti’s website at: www.anembodiedlife.com

#oneliferadio #somatictherapy #somaticyoga #glp1 #health taken in Dallas, Texas by @anembodiedlife

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Diet culture needs us disconnected from our bodies.

When we are taught to trust outside rules more than internal sensation, the body can slowly become something we observe, manage, and control rather than something we live in relationship with.

Re-embodiment asks us to reclaim that relationship — to return to our sensory knowing, strengthen interoceptive awareness, and begin listening to what our bodies have been communicating all along.

Comment BFYB to join the waitlist for my next program, or RETREAT to learn more about joining me at Kripalu.

#Embodiment #DietCulture #BodyRelationship #Interoception #BodyTrust by @anembodiedlife

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