COURSE

Making Peace With The Body You Live In

This 10-day course is about challenging and changing your internal programming and learning how to spend more time in peace with your body. Whether you feel mild, moderate, or massive dissatisfaction with your body, this course is for you. Written by a psychotherapist and author who has been there herself, Andrea struggled for decades with severe body hatred and a life-threatening eating disorder. Join her as she helps you uncover the root causes of your body image issues and gently guides you along the path of making peace with the body you live in.

Body Image Recovery & Healing Consciousness Spirituality Mindful Eating Mindfulness

Meet your Teacher

Andrea Wachter

Santa Cruz, CA, USA

Andrea Wachter is a licensed psychotherapist who is passionate about helping people with anxiety, depression, body image, disordered eating, grief, and communication skills. Andrea is an inspirational counselor, author, and teacher who uses professional expertise, personal recovery, and humor to help others. She is the author of "Getting Over Overeating for Teens" and co-author of "The Don’t Diet, Live-It Workbook" and "Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Breaking the 'I Feel Fat' Spell.” Andrea received her Bachelor’s Degree from Boston University and her Master’s Degree in Counseling from the University of San Francisco. In addition to her counseling practice, she is a regular contributor on The Huffington Post as well as numerous other publications.

10 Days

8.3k students

4.8 stars

15 min / day

Body Image

English

Lesson 1

Begin & Go Within

In this first lesson, you will learn about the course concepts, as well as the instructor’s personal battles and successes with body image. The session will conclude with a brief mindfulness meditation to help you separate painful, unkind body image thoughts from actual, factual reality.

Lesson 2

Revealing & Healing

This lesson will introduce you to “Dart in the Heart Moments.” These are those turning-points in time when something painful occurs and someone decides their body is somehow at fault and unacceptable. A deep journaling exercise will invite you to identify one of your Dart in the Heart Moments and a powerful visualization will then enable you to heal that wound.

Lesson 3

Digging Deeper

This talk will help you gain a better understanding of the purpose and depth of body dissatisfaction. Practical examples are given to illustrate how body obsession distracts us from deeper issues and you will leave this talk armed with simple suggestions to take into your day to day life.

Lesson 4

Body Apology

This lesson begins with a reading of the teacher’s personal body apology. Next is a gentle guided meditation where you can experience a body apology of your own. Walking you through various body parts, you will be guided to compassionately make amends to your body for all the ways the culture has led you and your body astray.

Lesson 5

Body Appreciation

Our bodies work diligently for us, 24 hours a day. Sadly, far too many of us either forget to take the time to appreciate our bodies, think unkindly about our bodies, or get so busy we neglect to think about our bodies much at all. This lesson offers you the opportunity to give thanks and appreciation to the miraculous body you live in.

Lesson 6

Heart To Heart With Parts

Every part of us, even our most angry and agonized, needs acceptance and compassion. In this lesson, you will be guided through an internal dialogue between the part of you that is dissatisfied with your body and the part of you that is pure wisdom and compassion.

Lesson 7

Feel It To Heal It

Anyone who longs to change their body, does so because of how they think those changes will make them feel. In today’s lesson, we will skip right over the painful body judgements and utilize powerful experiential exercises that will enable you to experience the feelings you have been seeking.

Lesson 8

Dispel The Spell

Today’s lesson begins with a talk about the massive cultural hypnotic spell that has been cast, highlighting the fact that this spell is programming rather than reality. The lesson concludes with a lovely visualization that will invite you to imagine your life without the bad body image spell.

Lesson 9

Raise Your Gaze

Love is the most healing state of all. It’s all too easy not only to forget to send love to our bodies, but to actually send hate and dislike to our bodies instead. This lesson is a gentle guided meditation that will take you into your heart, allow you to fill up with the feeling of love, and view your body with that loving gaze.

Lesson 10

A New Vow Now

In this final lesson, you will be invited to set an intention for the future by reciting several new vows. Every single time you see, feel, think or speak about your body, you will have another opportunity to renew those vows.

Ask your teacher

This course includes 158 community questions and 57 audio replies from Andrea Wachter. The community classroom and teacher audio replies are only available via the app.

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Recent Reviews

GLORIA

June 12, 2025

Love Andrea's courses.

Carol

June 3, 2025

I loved this course and will do it over and over so I can remember that I don’t have to change my body to start living fully. Thank you so much.

Lydia

May 17, 2025

Much gratitude

Jen

February 17, 2025

Andrea really digs deep to the core eith her lessons, exercises and knowledge. She’s compassionate and soothing and very responsive. Thank you for this course.

Wendy

February 7, 2025

Thank you Andrea for your wonderful course! I have already changed the way I view and think about my body. What stays with me most is the phrase, “my body is AMAZING !” 😊🙏

Lisa

November 25, 2024

Such a loving and full time spent here. Thank you Andrea for your care and help.

Faye

November 1, 2024

Loved this course, so gentle, helpful and inspiring. Thank you 🧡

Pat

August 8, 2024

Thank you !

Amy

July 14, 2024

Excellent course! There were tough days, for I've spoken to myself so unkindly for so long. This course takes you to the root of your negative body image, and that is quite emotional. However, I found that it got easier to look at myself in the mirror positively or not let my negative view of myself speak as much.

Michelle

June 1, 2024

This was a beautiful course. I learned so much and I plan to repeat it again.

Katy

May 31, 2024

This was a very insightful course. I appreciated all the introspection it gave. I learned a great deal and have plenty of new tools going forward

Jilly

March 12, 2024

The was a really helpful course. I look forward to revisiting it in the future. Also, your voice is very soothing. Reminds me a bit of actress Sherry Stringfield. 💜

Robin

October 10, 2023

This was really a great course. I am so appreciative of being able to take it. It’s a difficult challenge to retrain my brain, but this course has definitely helped me to move in that direction. I will be looking for the documentary it mentions. hopefully I will remember what the name of it is. If you could tell me where I could find it as well and on which net work that would be great. Thank you so much for this course. Have an amazing autumn . Namaste 🙏

Kathy

July 8, 2023

This really help me to stop and consider how I was talking to myself about my body and yet I was still stuffing it with pain. I need to be kinder to myself and then go deeper within to heal. Thank you so much.

Gal

June 1, 2023

Andrea your courses are a gift.

Melissa

May 3, 2023

Great course!

Celeste

April 23, 2023

I recommend this course to anyone who has ever struggled with over eating or disordered eating. Andrea, thank you so much for giving us all so much love and hope. Thank you for putting together this course. It was just what I needed to hear.

Lisa

April 19, 2023

Thank you, Andrea, for the wonderful course. It was so very helpful. 🙏

Meredith

April 11, 2023

Thank you!

Jenna

March 28, 2023

A truly amazing course. Thank you Andrea!

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