The Courageous Path to Healing

Reframe Your Pain
from Tormentor to Teacher

Join Jennifer Kreatsoulas, PhD, on her mindful, yoga-filled road to recovery and use powerful reflection exercises to support your own courageous healing journey. Providing stories of poignant moments from her struggle with an eating disorder, Jennifer transforms her experiences into thematic lessons that you can use to overcome challenges in your life.

The Courageous Path to Healing helps you explore opportunities to show up for yourself and celebrate the progress you make every day. Each chapter highlights an important step in Jennifer’s journey and checks in with you through yoga-inspired practices, journaling prompts, and deep, empowering wisdom. Written to demonstrate what's possible on the other side of suffering, this book encourages you to the full life you want and deserve.

Includes a foreword by Kristie Amadio, TEDx speaker and founder of Recovered Living

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Praise for The Courageous Path to Healing

“Jennifer takes you on her own unique and compelling path of recovery...She faces each moment, revealing the dark and the light, and the lessons she learned from each, while beautifully weaving together how the path of yoga helped to heal her body, mind, and soul.”
—Dr. Ann Saffi Biasetti, PhD, L-CSWR, CEDS, C-IAYT, author of Befriending Your Body

“Through a range of touching stories, key lessons, and useful tools, The Courageous Path to Healing helps you connect and transform...Kreatsoulas is your wise companion on a journey of insight and recovery.”
—Erin Byron, author of Yoga for the Creative Soul

“From facing your fears to accepting help from others to listening to your own body, mind, and heart—all infused with yoga philosophy—Jennifer Kreatsoulas provides a container in which your own authentic, expansive, and lasting recovery can emerge.”
—Jenna Hollenstein, MS, RDN, author of Eat to Love

“The Courageous Path to Healing offers Kreatsoulas’ personal journey as a gift of healing, support, and a resource for others. Her invaluable experience and expertise is beautifully woven into the narrative and practices that are inviting, engaging, and deeply moving.”
—Melanie C. Klein, MA, cofounder of the Yoga & Body Image Coalition and coeditor of Yoga & Body Image

“Jennifer’s non-judgmental, non-gimmicky, heartfelt book can serve as a powerful healing tool no matter what readers may be dealing with on their life journeys.”
—Dorian Christian Baucum, yoga teacher and contributor to Embodied Resilience Through Yoga

“Dr. Kreatsoulas guides us with intention, mindfulness, empathy, and power to begin the process of healing ...She shares with vulnerability and grace the path to her healing as a guide for a connection to our own healing. This book is thoughtful, enjoyable, mindful, and powerful.”
—Dianne Bondy, bestselling author of Yoga for Everyone and Yoga Where You Are

“Full of insight, hope, and shame-reducing strategies for anyone looking for support and understanding throughout the recovery process. Jennifer’s voice emulates hope, strength, and compassion.”
—Shari Botwin, LCSW, author of Thriving After Trauma

“A movingly honest example of what it takes to overcome inner demons...I would recommend this book as proof of the efficacy of the ancient science of yoga and the power we all hold within.”
—Jennie Lee, author of True Yoga, Spark Change, and Breathing Love

Jennifer Kreatsoulas, PhD, is a certified yoga therapist specializing in eating disorders and body image. She is a sought-after international speaker and former host of Real Body Talk, an online interview talk show. Through her virtual school, Yoga for Eating Disorders, Jennifer offers individual yoga therapy, groups, classes, and continuing education and mentoring for professionals. She is the author of Body Mindful Yoga, and her writing has been featured widely in print, broadcast, and online media. Learn more at www.yoga4eatingdisorders.com.