Find out what’s keeping you from peace with food.

Life Changing
Galina’s PWF method is absolutely life-changing. This book is a must-read if you’ve ever felt crazy for struggling with food or your body. This book is a beautiful, thorough introduction to more deeply understanding what your nervous system is doing and how trauma and food/ body struggles intersect ….and more importantly, she guides you through very simple somatic practices to begin to come back home into your body. I can’t recommend Galina and her work highly enough! She is ahead of the curve by decades.

This Is a Resource is a GIFT
I’ve owned it for less than a month, and this book is already one of the most accessible, useful, and heartful resources I have ever come upon in the work of connecting with the body. I have been in healing spaces and working with women around trauma (specifically around how we hold grief in our bodies) and how that affects our relationship with food since 2011. This book has taught me things in an embodied way that I only “knew” cognitively for years but couldn’t reliably access in the moments it really counted. Now, I have not only a mindful understanding of this work but a body-ful, somatic understanding as well. That really makes ALL the difference. Thank you, Galina, for giving us all a practical and compassionate resource for working with our relationship with food and ourselves. It is truly a GIFT!

Such a Treasure
This book has changed my life! I have a new outlook on why it’s not about food. How to heal my body and transform myself into who I can be without constantly thinking about food—such a treasure.

An Infinite Gift
Written in a poetic language of healing, Peace With Self, Peace With Food offers a pragmatic and science based path out of one of life’s most insidious struggles. If you’ve found yourself wrestling to win back the affirming force that is possible in a healthy relationship with self and food, Galina’s compassion and hard-earned wisdom is an infinite gift.

Finally a book and approach that make sense!
I’ve had a complicated relationship with my body since childhood (haven’t we all)? I steadily gained weight through the years and did a point counting program a couple dozen times plus other programs….I thought that I lacked the capacity for an uncomplicated relationship with food.

Fast Forward to the pandemic. The world shut down and so did I. I leaned heavily into intuitive eating and body positivity. If diet culture was restriction then Intuitive Eating (in my application of it) was ‘go nuts’. Want a cookie? great. Want 12? Rock on. (To be fair this is not what IE is but rather is how I approached it). I don’t know how much weight I gained in the pandemic but it was a lot.

Self-loathing and judgement didn’t make me lose weight and Intuitive Eating/Body positivity did not make me love and accept my body.

I love Galina’s work because it is practical and accessible and presents an entirely different way to conceptualize what our needs are. (Not just hunger). She is gentle, kind, clear headed and this book is just a deep well of compassion. I think this book can provide practical tools but also can open a window to a whole new landscape. This is not a weight loss book. Its not a book of ‘shoulds and should-nots’. It is more like an invitation to encounter yourself in an entirely different way and to begin to notice whats happening inside instead of trying to address our needs in other ways. She teaches ways to settle our bodies and systems so we can begin to really connect. Peace doesn’t come from losing 50 pounds. It comes from transforming our relationship with how we nourish ourselves, in all senses.

I would encourage anybody who has ‘tried everything’ to consider this book. I’m on the author’s email newsletter list and the steady messages in there are supporting me. This book is a gem and frankly, I think will become a seminal work in regards to understanding ourselves and our true needs.

The book not only invites us to deep listening and compassionate care. Reading it already gives you the full experience what ventral activation feels like. Galina’s love is poured into every single word, and you can feel your body soften along them. The peace is in the experience.

Directly accessible to everyone
In “Peace with Self, Peace with Food”, Galina offers a humane and compassionate way of understanding the survival adaptations that children have had to make to manage early trauma, and how this process shapes one’s life-long relationship to eating and food.  Using a unique framework that highlights the current neuropsychological thinking, this book provides a somatic approach to support so many individuals who may have a challenging relationship with eating and body regulation. I appreciate how Galina includes numerous body awareness exercises to make this information directly accessible to everyone. I imagine this book will be a valuable resource to support healing and growth for anyone who is interested in learning more about their own relationship to eating, food and their bodies.

Deep concepts in a straightforward manner
If you’re tired of struggling with your food issues and repeatedly trying to muster enough self-discipline to reach your goals, Peace with Food is the book for you.  Using the information and tools in the book will help you to “work smarter, not harder”.  It’s the difference between pushing your car uphill and just putting the key in the ignition and letting your car drive you to your destination. Galina Denzel explains deep concepts in a very straightforward manner and there are exercises throughout to let you try out your new tools. It’s a beautiful piece of work and I plan on gifting it to a few people I know will love it.

Practical Tools
Galina provides a wealth of knowledge and practical tools to help people understand how food has been a way to support and regulate ourselves during challenging times in our lives and to use that understanding to create positive change. It has been an incredible resource for me personally and as a therapist… There are many practical exercises and journal prompts that support the integration of the material. My clients report having new insights and understanding that have led to less shame and more compassion. I highly recommend this gem of a book!