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BodyTalk: 365 Gentle Movement Practices to Get Out of Your Head and Into Your Body
Continuing the conversation started in The Body Keeps the Score and The Complex PTSD Workbook, BodyTalk is unique guide to reestablishing connection to your body in order to process difficult emotions, improve mental health, and feel secure in your own skin.
Everything in your life comes down to how connected you are to your own body. Your relationships, your career, even your self-worth and self-respect are all a reflection of the relationship you have with your body. When things feel out of alignment, overwhelming or “too much,” it's a sign that you've already lost communication with yourself and the physical sensations within your body that let you know something is not right. The challenge is that many of us have difficulty even fathoming what a healthy relationship with our body is. We are overscheduled, overcommitted, and overwhelmed, making it difficult to pay attention to what is happening in the present moment. When the body has been a source of pain, anguish, and trauma, it feels impossible to return to it in a positive way. Many of us have spent years disconnected from our physical sensations, and the thought of reestablishing a healthy connection to the body feels impossible and we don’t even know where to begin. Enter BodyTalk, a unique guide to reestablishing connection to your body in order to process difficult emotions, improve mental health, and feel secure in your own skin. Through daily movement exercises and mindful reflection, readers can easily reestablish healthy boundaries and relationships with their own bodies in order to move through challenging emotions and feelings, as well as begin to find balance and a sense of vitality.
Over 365 days, you will be guided into more awareness as you're gently challenged to connect and communicate with your body. Through a combination of movement exercises and body-centered journal prompts, you can find your way back to yourself -- your worth, value, confidence, even identity.
Everything in your life comes down to how connected you are to your own body. Your relationships, your career, even your self-worth and self-respect are all a reflection of the relationship you have with your body. When things feel out of alignment, overwhelming or “too much,” it's a sign that you've already lost communication with yourself and the physical sensations within your body that let you know something is not right. The challenge is that many of us have difficulty even fathoming what a healthy relationship with our body is. We are overscheduled, overcommitted, and overwhelmed, making it difficult to pay attention to what is happening in the present moment. When the body has been a source of pain, anguish, and trauma, it feels impossible to return to it in a positive way. Many of us have spent years disconnected from our physical sensations, and the thought of reestablishing a healthy connection to the body feels impossible and we don’t even know where to begin. Enter BodyTalk, a unique guide to reestablishing connection to your body in order to process difficult emotions, improve mental health, and feel secure in your own skin. Through daily movement exercises and mindful reflection, readers can easily reestablish healthy boundaries and relationships with their own bodies in order to move through challenging emotions and feelings, as well as begin to find balance and a sense of vitality.
Over 365 days, you will be guided into more awareness as you're gently challenged to connect and communicate with your body. Through a combination of movement exercises and body-centered journal prompts, you can find your way back to yourself -- your worth, value, confidence, even identity.
304 pages, Paperback
Published July 29, 2025
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October 1, 2025
“Now, with the proliferation of handheld devices such as tablets and phones, we are a society of heads carried by bodies that are valued more for how they look and how much they can do and less for what they feel and how they simply exist.”
This book is a wonderful tool for getting back to how our bodies feel and exists. It can be a journal starter, or just small reminders to stop and connect with our bodies. You don’t have to read it from front to back to get the benefits from it.
There are twelve sections, such as Foundations, Sensations, Regulations… and the emotions get deeper the farther you get into the book. So you can start slow, or jump in where you are in your own experience. Each section starts with a quote, for example, “The body holds answers to questions the mind doesn’t even know to ask.” Then it has questions to think and/or write about, such as “What prevents me from moving?” And finally there are hundreds of little physical challenges that will help connect your mind and body, as the subtitle says: 365 gentle movement practices to get out of your head and into your body.
I think there is something in here for everyone.
“You do not need to understand what you feel in order to heal.”
This book is a wonderful tool for getting back to how our bodies feel and exists. It can be a journal starter, or just small reminders to stop and connect with our bodies. You don’t have to read it from front to back to get the benefits from it.
There are twelve sections, such as Foundations, Sensations, Regulations… and the emotions get deeper the farther you get into the book. So you can start slow, or jump in where you are in your own experience. Each section starts with a quote, for example, “The body holds answers to questions the mind doesn’t even know to ask.” Then it has questions to think and/or write about, such as “What prevents me from moving?” And finally there are hundreds of little physical challenges that will help connect your mind and body, as the subtitle says: 365 gentle movement practices to get out of your head and into your body.
I think there is something in here for everyone.
“You do not need to understand what you feel in order to heal.”
October 15, 2025
Thanks @gcpbalance for my #gifted copy
Hornthal shares 365 movements to facilitate daily mindfulness around your body and its movements and functions. I have to admit that ai do not care for my body as I should—too much stress, not enough movement, unhealthy food. Then, when my body complains of the mistreatment, I ignore it.
What we know about trying to change our behaviors is that starting with small, achievable changes that we can quickly master is key. If you are wanting to foster more mindfulness and/or easily incorporate more movement into your day, I highly recommend this book.
Hornthal shares 365 movements to facilitate daily mindfulness around your body and its movements and functions. I have to admit that ai do not care for my body as I should—too much stress, not enough movement, unhealthy food. Then, when my body complains of the mistreatment, I ignore it.
What we know about trying to change our behaviors is that starting with small, achievable changes that we can quickly master is key. If you are wanting to foster more mindfulness and/or easily incorporate more movement into your day, I highly recommend this book.
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