Love Letters to My Body: Writing My Way to (Self-)Love

by Nicole C. Ayers

Dear Reader,
Learning to love my body has been a journey. I didn’t want to live in her, much less learn to love her. In this collection of personal essays, I dig into the complex relationship I have with parts of my body by writing love letters to them.
“My imperfections are always more beautiful than hiding behind a veneer.”
“I dropped the heavy bag of ‘should’ I carried around for much too long.”
“Your softness, your fullness, your capacity for creation fills me with awe.”
Even though our stories and experiences are different, I bet you’ll catch glimpses of yourself here. My hope is that reading these letters will make you curious about your own relationship with your body. And if after reading and reflecting on your own body, you’re a smidge closer to accepting your body just as it is, know that I’m cheering so loudly for you.
Love,
Nicole C. Ayers

85 pages, Paperback

Published February 19, 2020

Reviews

[Regina Leatherbury]

Poignant and Powerful!
The companion books, Love Notes to My Body, and Writing Your Way to (Self) Love, are wonderful and take you deeper into the experience of loving your body.

[D.A.]

I'm so grateful for this book. I can't remember the last time I thanked a part of my body for being strong, carrying burdens, or getting me to my destination. This honest, genuine, and frank book is a challenge and not to be rushed through. Get the workbook that goes with it. Take your time. Examine. Delve. And appreciate. The author will lead you gently along so you can move forward with a new vision of all the wonderful parts that are you. When you are done, you'll want to hug the author and yourself afterward.

[A.J.]

This book is a beautifully illustrated, heartfelt meditation on body love.

I deliberately read it slowly, one chapter a day, because I wanted to allow time for each of Ayers’ precious messages to work their way vicariously into my subconscious.

It’s delicious being made aware of how wonderful our bodies are, yet heartbreaking knowing how and why we abuse, reject and take them for granted.

I feel, at last, I have permission to love my body with all the perfect imperfections that make it mine.

Sigh.

[Kristy Spears]

This book was fantastic. Each chapter is dedicated to loving a new part of your body. It was refreshing to read the words and reflect on my own feelings about different body parts. Love Letters to My Body has changed the way I think and feel about myself.

[Dolores Andral]

Promoting self-love to your body? What's not to love?