# Your Body Never Meant You Any Harm: Body Forgiveness with Dr. Ann Saffi Biasetti

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Podcast: [Beyond Binge Eating](https://stenobird.com/podcast/beyond-binge-eating-7099183)
Published: 2026-07-13T15:00:00+00:00
Episode link: http://www.BeyondBingeEating.com
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In this episode, I sit down with Dr. Ann Saffi Biasetti — transpersonal psychologist, somatic psychotherapist, certified yoga therapist, mindfulness teacher, and author of Befriending Your Body. Ann has spent more than 35 years in clinical practice walking people through disordered eating recovery, and her new book, Your Body Never Meant You Any Harm (releasing July 21), distills two decades of thinking into a framework that quietly challenges much of how the field still operates. She brings a perspective rarely voiced in eating disorder recovery spaces: that real healing doesn't happen when we think our way back into our bodies — it happens when we stop treating the body as something to be fixed or fought with, and start meeting it as the partner it was always trying to be. Here's what we cover in the episode: Ann's path from sensory-sensitive child to somatic clinician — and the high school yoga class that gave her, for the first time, a way to be in her body without judgment How an autoimmune diagnosis at 30 sent her back to the mat, and the moment she realized no therapy she'd ever done had taught her what one hour of practice had Why she let go of teaching active vinyasa classes after 17 years — and what real somatic healing requires that flow practices don't have time for The difference between mind forgiveness ("I did something wrong to my body") and body forgiveness ("neither of us asked for this") — and why that subtle shift reframes the entire recovery process The autoimmune diagnosis Ann received while writing this book, the shame of being "the expert" who was also unwell, and how self-compassion changed what she did with it How to separate the mind's reactivity (memory, prediction, self-criticism) from the body's actual sensation in the present moment — the…

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