Love Your Tree is the vision of Eve Ensler, playwright/performer/activist/V-Day Founder. After early performances of her latest work "The Good Body," Eve was inundated with letters and emails from enthusiastic women who wanted to talk, to process, to heal and to help. This reaction was similar to the response to Eve's groundbreaking play "The Vagina Monologues" that inspired V-Day, the global movement to end violence against women.

In much the same way "The Vagina Monologues" became a movement, that became a revolution, Love Your Tree is both a response to and an extension of "The Good Body."

A V-Day project sponsored by ABC Carpet & Home, Love Your Tree is a space for women -- and men -- to go after seeing Ensler's new Broadway play "The Good Body" which addresses why women of all cultures and backgrounds - whether undergoing Botox injections or living beneath burkhas - feel compelled to change the way they look in order to fit in, to be accepted, to be "good."

In creating a space where women can continue the discussion after the curtain falls, our hope is that Eve and V-Day's goal of creating a world where women thrive, rather than merely survive, will begin to be realized. From November 19 - January 16 at ABC Carpet & Home, the Love Your Tree space will feature events, speakers ranging from Isabella Rossellini to Dr. Christiane Northrup MD, discussions, a curated art installation, music, dance, and resources to empower and, enlighten the way we look at our bodies.

The name Love Your Tree grows out of "The Good Body." At one stage in the play, Eve is speaking with Leah, a seventy-four year old African Masai woman.

Following is the excerpt:

Leah: Do I like my body? Do I like my body? My body. My body. I love my body. God made this body. God gave me this body. My body. My body. Oh goodness, I love my body. My fingers, look at my fingers. I love my fingernails, little crescent moons. My hands, my hands, the way they flutter in the air and fall, they lead right up to my armsso strongthey carry things alongI love my armsand my legs, my legs are long, so long, Masai people, we are tall, I get there fast, my legs can wrap around a man and hold him there. My breasts . . . My breasts, well look at them, theyre mine, my breasts still round and full and fine.

Eve: Leah, wait, I dont know how to do this. I want to feel like you. I want to love my body and stop hating my stomach.

Leah: Whats wrong with it?

Eve: Eve: Its round. It used to be flat.

Leah: Its your stomach. Its meant to be seen. Eve, look at that tree? Do you see that tree? Now look at that tree. (Points to another tree) Do you like that tree? Do you hate that tree cause it doesnt look like that tree? Do you say that tree isnt pretty cause it doesnt look like that tree? Were all trees. Youre a tree. Im a tree. Youve got to love your body, Eve. Youve got to love your tree. Love your tree. Love my tree.

Excerpted from The Good Body by Eve Ensler Copyright 2004 by Eve Ensler. Excerpted by permission of Villard, a division of Random House, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.

Visit Love Your Tree at ABC Carpet & Home at 888 Broadway, New York, NY. Hours: Monday-Saturday 10am-8pm, Sunday 11am-7pm.

The Love Your Tree space is a project of V-Day sponsored by ABC Carpet & Home and THE GOOD BODY Broadway play, and supported by The Renfrew Center Foundation for Eating Disorders and The Gonda Family Foundation.