A new relationship with your body begins here.

Through somatic psychotherapy, embodied healing, and compassionate awareness, this work invites you to reconnect with your body in a way that feels supportive and sustainable.

Dr. Ann Saffi Biasetti: Somatic Psychotherapist, Author, Educator

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A New Perspective on Body Healing

Your Body Never Meant You Any Harm

Release Date: July 21, 2026

A practical, compassionate guide to understanding your body and changing the way you relate to it.

If you’ve spent years feeling disconnected, frustrated, or at war with your body, this work offers a different approach—one grounded in awareness, nervous system understanding, and self-compassion.

This isn’t about fixing your body.
It’s about learning how to listen to it.

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What People Are Saying

“Your Body Never Meant You Any Harm is a profoundly healing book. It guides readers to transform their sometimes painful and conflicted relationship with their bodies through the power of self-compassion and forgiveness. With warmth, clarity, and wisdom, it shows that the body is not the enemy—it’s a loyal ally that has been trying to protect us all along. In doing so, it offers a path to genuine wholeness and freedom.”

— Kristin Neff, PhD, author of Self-Compassion and Fierce Self-Compassion
“This book is a compassionate companion for any woman learning to come home to herself. Dr. Saffi Biasetti writes with the warmth of a wise teacher and the precision of someone who has both lived and lovingly facilitated the process of coming home to your body. Rooted in self-compassion research and somatic practice, this book offers gentle guidance for anyone ready to be led back home to their body.”

— Ailey Jolie, MCP, MA, somatic psychologist
“This is a book about coming home. Coming home to yourself and coming home to the wisdom deep within your flesh. In a world full of rupture, the pages within provide essential guidance to mend the mind and body split while providing insightful care on the path to healing and self-love.”

— Tias Little, MA, author of Yoga of the Subtle Body
“This book is guaranteed to change how you relate to your body. It is intuitive and informed, wise and compassionate—the culmination of Dr. Saffi Biasetti’s years of commitment to understanding the complicated relationship we have with our bodies. She gently guides the reader through ten stages on the path to body forgiveness. Every word is carefully chosen to help us remember the compassionate relationship we had with our bodies when we were born. Get ready to be touched, moved, and uplifted by what you read.”

— Christopher Germer, PhD, author of Self-Compassion for Shame
“This book outlines a lovely path to developing a relationship with your body and heal from societal messages as well as personal experiences and patterns of disconnection. Designed particularly for women who struggle with body connection and/or disordered eating, Dr. Saffi Biasetti draws on her personal journey and her professional expertise, guiding the reader with compassionate encouragement to explore the promise of an embodied life.”

— Cynthia Price, PhD, MA, LMT, director of the Center for Mindful Body Awareness

This work doesn’t end on the page

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A deeper space to practice what the book opens, where insight becomes lived experience through guidance, reflection, and shared exploration. Access a growing library of teachings, practices, and webinars designed to support your ongoing learning and embodiment practice.

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About Ann

Dr. Ann Saffi Biasetti is a somatic psychotherapist, author, educator, and creator of Embodied Self-Compassion. Her work integrates neuroscience, trauma-informed care, and psychospiritual practice to help individuals and professionals reconnect with the wisdom of the body.

Ann is the creator of the Befriending Your Body Program (BFYB)™, a somatic, self-compassion-based recovery program for disordered eating and body reconnection and trains professionals through the BFYB Somatic Certification Training program.

With decades of clinical experience and advanced training in polyvagal theory, somatic therapy, and mindfulness-based approaches, Ann has developed a unique methodology for healing disordered eating, body image disturbance, and trauma through embodiment. Her work has reached individuals and clinicians around the world.

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

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Ways to Work with Dr. Ann

For those ready to go deeper, Dr. Ann offers somatic psychotherapy and integrative, body-based support to help you reconnect with your body, process past experiences, and create lasting change.

Somatic Psychotherapy & Individual Support

Somatic psychotherapy and integrative, body-based support to help regulate your nervous system, process trauma, and reconnect with your body, food, and sense of self. This work offers individualized care for those seeking deeper healing and lasting change.

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Befriending Your Body Program™ Program

The first somatic program for recovery. BFYB™ is a trauma-informed, somatic self-compassion program designed to help you heal disordered eating, rebuild body trust, regulate your nervous system, and cultivate a kinder, more supportive relationship with yourself.

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Publications & Teachings for Professionals

Publications and professional trainings designed to support clinicians in integrating somatic and embodiment-based approaches into work with eating disorders and trauma, with a focus on practical application, clinical depth, and embodied understanding.

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Somatic Psychotherapy & Embodied Healing

For those seeking deeper, individualized support, Dr. Ann offers somatic psychotherapy and integrative, body-based healing. This work supports your relationship with your body, food, and self—creating space for awareness, regulation, and lasting change.

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