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Reclaiming Body Trust: A Path to Healing & Liberation by Hilary Kinavey, Dana Sturtevant

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evegolding's review against another edition

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challenging hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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hopeful informative medium-paced

4.0

alexisbmills's review

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There was a lot of wisdom in this book. But I feel could have been executed better. I had trouble getting really into it and finishing.

There was a heavy focus on having issues with food and relating everything else to having an issue with food. I don’t necessarily feel a connect there so I don’t feel like it always spoke to me.

I was hoping for more through the title and chapter titles. I kept thinking “oh this chapter is going to be good”, and then after think “oh that isn’t what I expected.”

With body trust I think it did a good job of expressing the systems that have disconnected as a whole, but I didn’t necessarily read or finish this feeling like I had more tools to connect more to my own body that I didn’t already know. (Which is what I was hoping for)

erinentertained's review against another edition

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challenging inspiring reflective

4.0

hao_ming_zi's review

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challenging emotional hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

NOTES TAKEN WHILE READING:

I reclaim my movement, my rhythm, my flow. When was the first time you realized a problem with your body? Who benefits from these beliefs? Who is making money off of them? You are learning to trust your body and your body is learning to trust you. Body trust is not a place we arrive but a connective energy we cultivate. It is an endeavor for a life time, and your practices will change and grow throughout our evolution. Live in the middle that is discernment, without binaries & with internal, inherent resources. Your presence is not a burden even when it’s too much to bear.

You can be trusted.

You were born with an inherent connection to and trust within your body.

When we listen, we can’t be selective.

What if you don’t need to fix yourself?

What if this journey is about opening to the wholeness and aliveness already within yourself?

What was never yours to embody? What can you let go of?

Anger is the purest form of care and illuminates what we belong to and what we are willing to protect.

How can you hold your sacred ground? How can you attune and tend to your inner world?

You must experience fullness, satisfaction, joy and pleasure to trust in your wholeness.

Grief must be ritualistic.

Shame works because it so often speaks the voice of the dominant culture and those who have had the most power over you in your life. Shame is on the side of control, compliance, and fear. It convinces you are the monster. It doesn’t create meaningful change. Meaningful work is grounded in connection and united humanity.

Can you appreciate what is? Do you credit yourself for your hard work and positive outcomes?

Perfectionism is a protective flex where we can’t tolerate the humanity within us.

Healing is about knowing how to call ourselves home.

RECLAIMING MOVEMENT

—movement is what we’re born into, exercise is what we’re sold

—movement is for fun: walk away from cosmetic fitness

—figure out what feels good to you—movement wise, less structured exercise, let yourself figure it out, start when you start and stop when you stop

—sit in in-action until something that is genuinely yours comes up