Kathryn Hall is a professional artist, writer, speaker and teacher. She has a masters degree in psychology and English literature, an MBA, and two years on a Ph.D. in English Literature. She taught writing for many years, four on the college level, and has extensive training and experience with body image and eating issues. Kathryn is passionate and tireless in the cause of helping women feel better about themselves. She teaches workshops and speaks on this topic, in addition to doing private consultation and coaching. A Los Angeles resident, she also does real woman modeling.

Ms. Hall is an internationally acclaimed artist who has been showing for twenty years, mostly paintings and mixed media pieces about myths and figures. An old-fashioned scholar, her literary studies emphasized works which refer to myths, religions and primitive tribal fertility rites. They also show the theme that contemporary western man is out of sync with himself, nature and God. He needs to reconnect tohis roots.

Her masters thesis was a psychological study of a mythological earth mother / Venus type character, Eula, in William Faulkner's trilogy, The Hamlet, The Town and The Mansion. In addition, she has an MBA and many yearsexperience teaching literature and writing at the college level, but more to the point, she puts her extensive reading in such disparate subjects as art, art history, aesthetics, psychology, art therapy, sociology, food disorders, addictions, sexuality, spirituality, history, anthropology, sociology, philosophy and education together in this book to form a wayto heal our body self-esteem issues while we are entertained, enlightened with interesting related discussions, and encouraged to be the best and happiest possible humans we can be. Ms. Hall lives in Santa Monica, Ca. and has two grown daughters who are subject and inspiration for many of her art works.