Catherine P. Cook-Cottone > Quotes

“[Your name here], you are worth the effort and do not forget that—”
― Catherine P. Cook-Cottone, The Embodied Healing Workbook: The Art and Science of Befriending Your Body in Trauma Recovery; Over 100 Healing Practices

“As your clients spend positive, down-regulated, and effective time in and with their bodies, how they see and embody themselves will unfold, dismantling objectification and supporting agency and self-determination.”
― Catherine P. Cook-Cottone, Embodiment and the Treatment of Eating Disorders: The Body as a Resource in Recovery

“Aristotle is believed to have said, “We are what we repeatedly do.” As our clients add minutes, hours, and days being-with, for, and of their bodies and increasingly less time engaged in ED thinking and doing, it can gradually become true for a client to say, “I am at my center, calm, grounded, and filled with beauty. My body is a source of wisdom that I connect to and am guided by.” Table 9.3 summarizes practices”
― Catherine P. Cook-Cottone, Embodiment and the Treatment of Eating Disorders: The Body as a Resource in Recovery

“You possess within yourself an inner resource that’s designed to empower you to feel in control of and at ease with every experience you have during your life. Your inner resource is a place of refuge within you. It provides you with inner support on every step of your healing journey. (here)”
― Catherine P. Cook-Cottone, Embodiment and the Treatment of Eating Disorders: The Body as a Resource in Recovery

“This means getting to interoceptive and mindful awareness of sensation, truly sensing with and through the body. It also means becoming aware of, feeling, and working with stress reponses and emotions as they are experienced in and through the body. More, it entails shifting and reframing cognitions in a manner that integrates the experiences of the body and emotions.”
― Catherine P. Cook-Cottone, Embodiment and the Treatment of Eating Disorders: The Body as a Resource in Recovery