As Deb started to build her private practice, she saw how difficult it was for her clients to talk about body image and how challenging it was to create the time and space to adequately address these very painful and complex struggles. For the last 20 years, Deb has collaborated with Whitney Otto, co-facilitating Body Image Inside Out workshops, offering a more intensive, creative way to explore the complexity of body image healing. Deb and Whitney see body image work as multi-dimensional; how layers of our stories, traumas, longings and desires are often “housed” in the body and how these unprocessed experiences and emotions, both past and present, often get expressed through our body image. Deb and Whitney’s “inside out” approach offers an entirely new framework, inviting participants to discover and decode their own unique body image “language.” Body Image Inside Out workshops teach attendees how to develop relationships with their body image, almost like couples therapy, so that they can have more of a constructive and connected dialogue. Through coaching, exercises and group discussion, participants have the opportunity to access the wisdom their bodies carry and allow them to connect more deeply with themselves.
To find out about upcoming workshops with Deb and Whitney, visit bodyimageinsideout.com.