You Are OK. How to Accept and Love Yourself

The book by practicing therapist Ekaterina Teternikova, “You and Everything’s OK,” offers clear and effective ways to turn the body from a reason for anxiety into support, and emotions—from adversaries—into helpers.

Ekaterina Teternikova is a clinical psychologist, a dialectical-behavior therapy specialist, an expert in eating disorders, a lecturer at the Moscow Institute of Psychoanalysis, and a supervisor. For more than ten years, she has helped teenagers and adults with eating disorders change how they relate to their body, cope with crises, and build stress resilience.

In a world where you are expected again and again to be ideal, it’s easy to lose sight of what matters most—yourself.

Your body, emotions, relationships with yourself and others are details of one unique picture called “YOU.” But how do you stop looking for flaws in it and start noticing your own strength?

“You and Everything’s OK” is not just a set of tools for building healthy self-esteem, but also a safe space where you can exhale and allow yourself to be real.

Inside, you’ll find exercises and techniques to help you:
• Improve your relationship with your body, take care of it with respect rather than hatred, and feel confidence and resourcefulness in it.
• Find enjoyable physical activity, see the meaning of quality sleep and balanced nutrition.
• Discover your strong side and understand that being cool doesn’t mean being able to do everything in the world.
• Build healthy boundaries in communication and choose an environment that treats you with respect and supports you.
• Understand your emotions, stop being afraid of them, and learn how to manage them.