Making Peace With Your Thighs
Get Off The Scales and Get On With Your Life

Dr. Linda Mintle


From the womb to the tomb, women are bombarded with unhealthy media images of what they “should” look like. Magazine covers, music videos, television sitcoms, and advertisements all serve to fuel today’s unrealistic feminine ideals, as evidenced by the rising numbers of plastic surgery procedures and women with eating disorders. With standards of beauty growing increasingly narrow, modern women struggle to live up to unrealistic cultural stereotypes, often at the expense of their physical, psychological, and spiritual well-being. Now, a groundbreaking and hope-filled new book serves as a much-needed wake-up call for women everywhere to reclaim and redefine their body.  

In Making Peace with your Thighs: Get Off the Scales and Get On With Your Life (Integrity Publishers, June 2006, ISBN: 1-59145-426-3, Price: $14.99), nationally acclaimed author, speaker, and licensed clinical social worker Dr. Linda Mintle challenges women to defy societal myths, boldly alter their own attitudes, change the culture, and ultimately embrace their bodies. Drawing on more than twenty years of counseling experience and specializing in food, weight and body image, Dr. Linda comes alongside readers as a personal coach, questioning their motivations, obsessions, and reasons behind their constant need to improve their looks. By getting to the true root of body dissatisfaction, she gently leads the way towards acceptance and improved self-confidence and esteem.  

Armed with simple and effective tools to diffuse the universal disease of body obsession, Dr. Linda helps readers minimize their distractions, work through interpersonal issues, and refocus on true beauty.  Chockfull of eye opening revelations, remarkable insights, hilarious and sometimes poignant stories and practical advice, Making Peace with your Thighs is guaranteed to revolutionize women’s thinking about their bodies, freeing them from the unrelenting clutches of body insecurity, negative thinking, and feelings of inadequacy.  In no time at all, readers will find their lives back on the right track and more attuned to meaningful purpose.

“The purpose of this book is to help us regain something important that has been lost,” writes Dr. Linda.  “Too often we allow ourselves to be defined by our imperfect parts, and we need to experience wholeness again…or maybe for the first time.  We achieve this by defying the body myths and living in a new reality.  This new reality includes all three parts of our being—body, soul, and spirit.  When we surrender our spirit to God, we can renew our minds, free our emotions, and accept the bodies we have been given.”

Making Peace with your Thighs is an empowering resource for any woman who has ever felt less than who she was created to be. A welcome addition to female libraries everywhere, this must-have book will result in a new wave of healthier and happier women able to celebrate their bodies and face life with renewed confidence. But perhaps the most exciting part of Dr. Linda’s body acceptance movement is its potential to not only positively impact the current generation of women, but to serve as a fitting role model for many generations to come.    

Dr. Linda Mintle is a nationally recognized author, speaker and licensed clinical social worker who has been in general practice for 20 years and specializes in marriage and family therapy and eating disorders.  Dr. Linda is also the resident expert for ABC Family Channel’s “Living the Life” and a regular contributor to several national magazines.  She has authored thirteen books, including Overweight Kids, Lose It for Life (with Stephen Arterburn) and A Daughter’s Journey Home.  She and her husband live in Virginia Beach with their two children.





Making Peace With Your Thighs
Get Off The Scales and Get On With Your Life
Dr. Linda Mintle
Integrity Publishers
ISBN: 1-59145-426-3, Price: $14.99
June 2006



For more information or to schedule an interview with the author, please contact Scott Harris at Integrity Publishers at (615) 715.4333.