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The Body Revelation: Physical and Spiritual Practices to Metabolize Pain, Banish Shame, and Connect to God with Your Whole Self
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“. . . [Keeton’s] holistic approach to well-being and assertions that one’s body ‘can be any size you want it to be as long as you cultivate the heart God wants you to have’ resonate. Christians seeking to integrate their spiritual and physical practices will want to have a look.” —Publishers Weekly
Do you sometimes feel as though your body is a problem to solve? Discover how to make it part of the solution instead. It’s now known that the emotional and relational pain we’ve lived through has a profound negative physical effect on our bodies. Alisa Keeton, popular fitness professional, proposes that the reverse is also What we do with our bodies can have a dramatic positive effect on our emotions, relationships, and our connection with God. In The Body Revelation, she shows us how to use our bodies as a means of healing past pain and promoting physical, emotional, and spiritual health.
Too often, people of faith are taught to ignore, avoid, or forget our bodies, but Alisa reminds us that God calls our bodies good and cares about our pain. Offering a variety of physical and spiritual practices as well as stories from her own journey, Alisawalks us through six steps for metabolizing personal pain;shows us how understanding the mind/body/soul connection can help us make healthier choices;teaches us how to achieve well-being and live for more than a number on a scale, and more!
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You can enrich your life, celebrate your body, and find holistic wellness. Journey alongside Alisa, and discover scientifically based, biblically-sound mind-body tools to forever change how you process pain so that you can experience emotional freedom, physical renewal, and spiritual transformation.
“. . . [Keeton’s] holistic approach to well-being and assertions that one’s body ‘can be any size you want it to be as long as you cultivate the heart God wants you to have’ resonate. Christians seeking to integrate their spiritual and physical practices will want to have a look.” —Publishers Weekly
Do you sometimes feel as though your body is a problem to solve? Discover how to make it part of the solution instead. It’s now known that the emotional and relational pain we’ve lived through has a profound negative physical effect on our bodies. Alisa Keeton, popular fitness professional, proposes that the reverse is also What we do with our bodies can have a dramatic positive effect on our emotions, relationships, and our connection with God. In The Body Revelation, she shows us how to use our bodies as a means of healing past pain and promoting physical, emotional, and spiritual health.
Too often, people of faith are taught to ignore, avoid, or forget our bodies, but Alisa reminds us that God calls our bodies good and cares about our pain. Offering a variety of physical and spiritual practices as well as stories from her own journey, Alisawalks us through six steps for metabolizing personal pain;shows us how understanding the mind/body/soul connection can help us make healthier choices;teaches us how to achieve well-being and live for more than a number on a scale, and more!
Other features of this book
adverse childhood experiences questionnaire for helping you process past painmovement calendarfood journal template
You can enrich your life, celebrate your body, and find holistic wellness. Journey alongside Alisa, and discover scientifically based, biblically-sound mind-body tools to forever change how you process pain so that you can experience emotional freedom, physical renewal, and spiritual transformation.
288 pages, Kindle Edition
Published June 13, 2023
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About the author
Alisa Keeton
6 books59 followersAlisa Keeton is a wholehearted pursuer of God’s love. After more than twenty-five years as a fitness professional, Alisa felt God leading her to bring fresh meaning to the world of health and fitness. At first she resisted, but eventually she got on her knees, rolled up her sleeves, and followed His call. In 2011, she launched Revelation Wellness. This nonprofit ministry uses fitness as a tool to spread the gospel message, inviting participants to become whole and live well. The Revelation Wellness instructor training program equips and sends out “fitness missionaries” throughout the United States and around the world, while RevWell TV brings faith-based online workouts and resources to anyone with Internet access. Alisa lives in Phoenix with her husband, Simon, and their two children, Jack and Sophia. As a family, they are on mission to change the world with the kind and courageous love of God.
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February 28, 2023
Have a new highlighter handy because you're going to need it!
This book has so much faith-filled wisdom and so many practical takeaways - you can't finish it unchanged. Each section offers tools to help you put into practice what you've read. If you're stressed out and discouraged or feel stuck in your faith, The Body Revelation will help you integrate your body & mind to do the good works you've been called to do!
This book has so much faith-filled wisdom and so many practical takeaways - you can't finish it unchanged. Each section offers tools to help you put into practice what you've read. If you're stressed out and discouraged or feel stuck in your faith, The Body Revelation will help you integrate your body & mind to do the good works you've been called to do!
February 20, 2023
I had the privilege of reading an advance copy of this book. I fully believe that this book is going to be foundational in helping people stop the war within themselves and find lasting freedom through Christ. Alisa walks readers gently and kindly through understanding their past pain and help them move through it to find peace and connection with God. You don't want to miss this book!
January 10, 2023
Alisa Keeton, the author of this book, is the founder of a Christian fitness program Revelation Wellness. This book is a well-researched look at the mind/body/spirit connection. This is a fitness and wellness book written from a Christian perspective to help the reader heal from physical and emotional pain. Each chapter includes self-assessment questions for the reader to answer as well as a prayer. The most useful part may be links to the author's website that give workouts and meditations to go along with the theme of each chapter.
This could be a helpful book to those who are struggling with their health and want to use both fitness and the Bible to help them heal. As a Christian and as a nutrition professional, I found this book to be a good addition to the literature.
This could be a helpful book to those who are struggling with their health and want to use both fitness and the Bible to help them heal. As a Christian and as a nutrition professional, I found this book to be a good addition to the literature.
February 21, 2023
This book is foundational for every heart to understand how God sees our pain AND wants to heal and restore us. Alisa leads the reader through a deep process of healing past traumas and pains, then walking forward into the Truth of God's word and more profound freedom!
May 29, 2023
I’m about 70% through this book and it has totally reshaped the way I view my body and exercise. I’ve always thought I had to push myself to the max, burning as many calories as I could, which burned me out on exercise. I started to dislike it, particularly because I was putting in so much effort and not seeing the number on the scale change. Add in restrictive diets and I was no fun to be around. This book really drives home the idea that God has made us to be who we are, flaws and all, and that is actually wonderful! We should rest in that!! Bigger or smaller bodied, we’re loved and accepted just the same.
October 20, 2023
This is a much-needed book in the world of wellness! Alisa beautifully blends trauma with neuroscience with practical tools with the Bible! This will open your eyes to the ways that modern scientific knowledge of the mind-body connection is reflection in Scripture, and it will help you see your own patterns in a new light. Highly recommend for anyone looking for a holistic perspective of health that is Bible-based.
May 7, 2023
I got an advanced copy of the book. What a privilege it has been. There’s so much science I had no idea about as it relates to my brain even after years of therapy and help from psychiatrists. So much of this put together things that made sense for me and my healing. I feel more free in and appreciative of my body. This book has true healing power. All you have to do is show up with an open heart and read.
May 15, 2023
This is, without a doubt, a book for anyone!! Alisa makes sense of what is going on inside each and every one of us. In such an amazing, straight to the heart conversation Alisa shows us there is hope in all of us; Her heart and experience allows a deeper understanding and knowing that we are made for more. Jesus designed us uniquely, but also to act in community to carry out His purpose in our lives. I am so grateful for this roadmap into how to live my best life.
May 4, 2023
THIS book will change ALL areas of your life, physical, mental,emotional, and spiritual!!!!
May 16, 2023
this is an amazing book so far
May 31, 2023
If you have ever wondered about the pain you carry, this book is for you. It walks you through a process to understand and metabolize your pain through opening your heart, mind, body and soul to the the one who can heal. You read this book as a participant, allowing God to give insight and perspective while Alisa Keeton walks you through vital information, steps of moving, mouth and mind to practice what God teaches you along the way. You will learn the science of mind-body connection, quantum physics and how that relates to our faith, mind blowing! I had the privilege of being in the launch group and cannot wait for you to read this book. It is life changing! But don’t go it alone! Find a community to walk with through “The Body Revelation”.
June 14, 2023
I knew I was dealing with pain but not to the capacity that this book was able to help me see and metabolize. I love how it feels like the author is just right there talking with me as a friend and not just the average oh I picked up a good book to read. As stated in the book, this is a book that you don't just read, you do. This book is truly transformational and I am blessed to have gotten the chance to have an advance copy of it. Now I can't stop sharing it with others. It is definitely a MUST READ.
October 28, 2023
I had a really hard time with this book. There was something in the tone of it that felt quite triggering to my eating disorder history, and the theology was very difficult for me. I'm not Christian but I'm usually quite good at translating language of God and Jesus into something I can work with. Here, though, there is a lot of Sin and Satan stuff that felt much more off-putting.
February 22, 2023
What an important message for finding peace in your body and hope for your wearied soul! The information is fascinating and the practical applications are foundational to creating lasting change. Not only do you learn how the body and brain work together, but you are given tools for actually making it happen through movement and meditation.
For the sake of the health and wellness of all future generations, please read this book!
For the sake of the health and wellness of all future generations, please read this book!
May 29, 2024
I wanted to love this but just could not—at least not at this time. It seemed really repetitive to me and there were so many metaphors I felt dizzy.
January 19, 2025
Loved this.
May 3, 2023
Amazing book! Anyone who’s experienced pain (so all of us,) needs to read this book. It’s not just a book, but an experience. Alisa takes us on a journey to true freedom!
June 13, 2023
This book is life-changing!
June 6, 2023
This book by @alisakeeton from @revelationwellness has begun to stir again a long held desire to see my align my health with God’s design for me. I have fought many years to be well. The fight became more exhausting than my physical woes. I believe that Alisa hit the nail on the head with The Body Revelation. My journey has been a battle against unhealed and on-going trauma, not my body. What a revelation indeed! I look forward to implementing the practical steps of healing and reconnecting with my body and my health outlined in the beautiful book. The true bonus is linking with the faith filled Holy Spirit community that is Revelation Wellness as I journey through this book and beyond.
September 7, 2023
It is a lot to process. Our bodies and seeing them as God does.
July 20, 2023
the body revelation
The book starts out well but drags on and was hard to finish because got lost in all the stuff.
The book starts out well but drags on and was hard to finish because got lost in all the stuff.
June 13, 2023
If you struggle with anxiety or if you've had any kind of chronic stress (hello, global pandemic), or if you've had or experienced trauma as a child or in your adult years, then this book is for you.
I've been a Christ follower for over 40 years and for most of that time a leader in ministry.
And yet I have struggled with anxiety for most of my life.
But through the book The Body Revelation by Alisa Keeton, God is beginning to set me free and heal me on even a deeper level.
I cannot recommend this book highly enough.
I noticed back in January of 2020 that I was at a point that I knew I needed professional help. I saw a trauma therapist and I received EMDR therapy and saw a huge difference. I wasn't reacting with all of the same emotional responses and stress any longer. I was excited to see what God was doing in my life.
And then 2021 and 2022 hit, where we had circumstances in our family and I found myself in the vortex of anxiety once again.
In The Body Revelation, Alisa Keeton talks about how with emotions and negative circumstances, we can either repress them and hold them in our bodies or we oppress others with them. But then there's another option, we can process them.
Energy cannot be created or destroyed, it can only be transmitted or transformed.
What was happening is that I was transmitting all the negative energy from my circumstances to others instead of transforming it with the Lord. And she talks about this in the book. It was a light bulb moment for me. I have been transmitting worry, anxiety, and a complaining spirit to other people and to myself.
Alisa's book came at just the right time.
Through her book, I'm learning to transform the negative circumstances in my life with the Lord. She talks about in the book a 90-second rule - that the chemicals from our emotions will only last in our bodies for 90 seconds. What we do after that with the emotions and the negative energy is up to us.
I am learning to more quickly take these emotions and any negative energy that I'm feeling to the Lord. I have a circumstance that I'm in right now that is difficult, it's challenging, and I was praying about it, and I felt like the Lord said, Shelley, even if it doesn't feel good, it's going to be good.
My circumstances haven't changed. I'm literally still right in the middle of it. But I want to tell you something has changed. God has been working in my life. I have repented, I have been changing, I have been taking these things to the Lord faster and faster so that I'm not carrying it in my body.
And I will tell you, I'm experiencing peace, I'm experiencing joy, in the midst of it all. Praise God.
When you get a copy of the book DO NOT SKIP the audios at the end of each chapter. They have been my favorite part of the book and you’ll get so much more out of it if you listen to them.
It is a small investment for the transformation that God can bring in your life.
I really think if you have a body, this book is for you. Because we've all walked through stress, we've all had different moments of anxiety, and some of you have had extreme times of trauma, childhood trauma, that God wants to begin to heal and set you free.
You cannot put a price tag on peace.
I have been through counseling and trauma therapy, I've been a Christian for over 40 years. And this book is helping to heal my heart and my mind at a deeper level.
Thank you, Alisa. Thank you. Revelation Wellness. I am forever grateful.
I recommend that you get a copy of this book yourself and a few copies to give to family and friends. You will not regret it.
I've been a Christ follower for over 40 years and for most of that time a leader in ministry.
And yet I have struggled with anxiety for most of my life.
But through the book The Body Revelation by Alisa Keeton, God is beginning to set me free and heal me on even a deeper level.
I cannot recommend this book highly enough.
I noticed back in January of 2020 that I was at a point that I knew I needed professional help. I saw a trauma therapist and I received EMDR therapy and saw a huge difference. I wasn't reacting with all of the same emotional responses and stress any longer. I was excited to see what God was doing in my life.
And then 2021 and 2022 hit, where we had circumstances in our family and I found myself in the vortex of anxiety once again.
In The Body Revelation, Alisa Keeton talks about how with emotions and negative circumstances, we can either repress them and hold them in our bodies or we oppress others with them. But then there's another option, we can process them.
Energy cannot be created or destroyed, it can only be transmitted or transformed.
What was happening is that I was transmitting all the negative energy from my circumstances to others instead of transforming it with the Lord. And she talks about this in the book. It was a light bulb moment for me. I have been transmitting worry, anxiety, and a complaining spirit to other people and to myself.
Alisa's book came at just the right time.
Through her book, I'm learning to transform the negative circumstances in my life with the Lord. She talks about in the book a 90-second rule - that the chemicals from our emotions will only last in our bodies for 90 seconds. What we do after that with the emotions and the negative energy is up to us.
I am learning to more quickly take these emotions and any negative energy that I'm feeling to the Lord. I have a circumstance that I'm in right now that is difficult, it's challenging, and I was praying about it, and I felt like the Lord said, Shelley, even if it doesn't feel good, it's going to be good.
My circumstances haven't changed. I'm literally still right in the middle of it. But I want to tell you something has changed. God has been working in my life. I have repented, I have been changing, I have been taking these things to the Lord faster and faster so that I'm not carrying it in my body.
And I will tell you, I'm experiencing peace, I'm experiencing joy, in the midst of it all. Praise God.
When you get a copy of the book DO NOT SKIP the audios at the end of each chapter. They have been my favorite part of the book and you’ll get so much more out of it if you listen to them.
It is a small investment for the transformation that God can bring in your life.
I really think if you have a body, this book is for you. Because we've all walked through stress, we've all had different moments of anxiety, and some of you have had extreme times of trauma, childhood trauma, that God wants to begin to heal and set you free.
You cannot put a price tag on peace.
I have been through counseling and trauma therapy, I've been a Christian for over 40 years. And this book is helping to heal my heart and my mind at a deeper level.
Thank you, Alisa. Thank you. Revelation Wellness. I am forever grateful.
I recommend that you get a copy of this book yourself and a few copies to give to family and friends. You will not regret it.
December 18, 2023
This book is a biblical workout. Just imagine you go to a gym, and attend a group workout. The group leader starts the workout class, and takes a break every few minutes to give you a little sermon, a biblical peptalk. That is exactly the format of this book right through. Let's go to chapter 18. She writes: "I don't pretend to be a physicist, but other than scripture, quantum mechanics has done more to help me understand the Kingdom Jesus was referring to than anything else." Yes, indeed, folks, the best understanding you will get of quantum physics is upon reading the Bible. She quotes Max Planck and his statement "All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force which brings the particles of an atom to vibration and holds this most minute solar system of the atom together. We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent Mind. This Mind is the matrix of all matter." The author then gives us her "Christian Quantum Physics" interpretation saying "Friends, as believers we know this "conscious and intelligent Mind" is Yahweh-the one true God." That was it for me. I closed the book and will return it asap to our local library just so a devout Christian can get a hold of it and enjoy an ecstatic biblical workout.
June 16, 2023
With great delight, I recommend The Body Revelation to you. This is such a good word being released into the world! It is like a balm for the souls of the weary and heavy-hearted; incredibly good news for all who feel stuck in bodies that don’t seem like a good fit.
This book delivers gentle guidance and wise counsel from a woman expertly schooled and trained in health and fitness, steeped in the Word of God, and relentless in pursuit of truth. Alisa Keeton speaks life into hard and hurting places, becoming your coach, teacher, counselor, and champion for the journey. Every chapter is an integrated personal teaching & training session for body, mind and spirit.
Read it to learn how to metabolize pain, banish shame, and step into the reality for which you were originally designed: healthy, whole, and free.
I’m so encouraged by my own experience, working through this book and engaging the Revelation Wellness community, that I’m launching a book club. It’s just too good not to share! After a chapter or two, you’ll find yourself considering others in your circle who need this, too. One book won’t be enough!
This book delivers gentle guidance and wise counsel from a woman expertly schooled and trained in health and fitness, steeped in the Word of God, and relentless in pursuit of truth. Alisa Keeton speaks life into hard and hurting places, becoming your coach, teacher, counselor, and champion for the journey. Every chapter is an integrated personal teaching & training session for body, mind and spirit.
Read it to learn how to metabolize pain, banish shame, and step into the reality for which you were originally designed: healthy, whole, and free.
I’m so encouraged by my own experience, working through this book and engaging the Revelation Wellness community, that I’m launching a book club. It’s just too good not to share! After a chapter or two, you’ll find yourself considering others in your circle who need this, too. One book won’t be enough!
July 6, 2023
This book is written for anyone that has ever wrestled with their body and their heart. In these pages, you will find not just practical information but fresh reminders of your identity and a fresh breath for your soul. The heart of God is for us as a whole, embodied person, and Alisa does a beautiful job of inviting the reader on a journey of discovering more of His heart as you process pain in your heart and body.
If you wrestle with pain in your body, mind, or heart, you will find kindness in these pages. The book is intended not just to be read but to also be processed and moved out. The extra resources at the ends of the chapters invite further embodiment of the truths you explore in the pages. It is like having a personal trainer walk you through weeks of coaching and like having a friend ask you the deep questions that cut straight to the heart in the most gentle way.
This book is filled with truth and love. We get to process our pain with our good Father, and Alisa just invites you into that adventure. This is one of my new favorite books and will be one I revisit again and again!
If you wrestle with pain in your body, mind, or heart, you will find kindness in these pages. The book is intended not just to be read but to also be processed and moved out. The extra resources at the ends of the chapters invite further embodiment of the truths you explore in the pages. It is like having a personal trainer walk you through weeks of coaching and like having a friend ask you the deep questions that cut straight to the heart in the most gentle way.
This book is filled with truth and love. We get to process our pain with our good Father, and Alisa just invites you into that adventure. This is one of my new favorite books and will be one I revisit again and again!
November 22, 2025
I am honestly so unsure of how to rate this book because it had so much in it. The premise of this non fiction is that we need to do the heart work and then the body stuff will fall into place. That may mean physical changes in your body or it may mean that you are able to finally be content with your body. This book was in parts so convicting, in parts os gut wrenching, and in parts so inspiring. I thought the victim mindset I've had lately was convicting, the need to be compassionate with the past hurts you've had and the traumas was gut wrenching, and the hope that it could be better was inspiring. I was a little scared by the ways her mom's relationship with her body and her dad really impacted her and how my things may be impacting my children. I loved the additional elements of stillness meditations as well as movement meditations (found at www.revelationwellness.org/tbr/still and www.revelationwellness.org/tbr/move respectively). Overall I would love to go through this book really slowly and physically at some point, but for a first read it was great.
May 14, 2023
I remember learning about “suppression” in a psychology class and using it artfully for memories that hurt. Turns out, “suppression” isn’t permanent healing, not when you’re a child of God who can go to THE Healer who loves to heal. Enter “The Body Revelation.” This book rocked my world in the best way possible - inviting me to walk through the suppressed memories and surrender them to my Father who can even make the scars look beautiful. Alisa has a gift for reminding us about our integrated faith and for giving us practical exercises that help us not just learn but do. I love the way the book was broken down to involve our whole selves, not to mention her own experiences and the thousands of references that prove these are tried and true facts. This isn’t a self-help book. This is a God-help book, and I’m buying several copies to give away! Because no matter what one has gone through, you can’t get enough of Jesus, and this book is such a great reminder of that.
June 2, 2023
My first taste of health and wellness was training for fitness competitions. The more I experienced that world, the more I realized how flawed the general perception of the meaning of health and wellness was. As a Christian, I knew there had to be a better (more sane) way to take care of my body (as well as my mind and soul). Then I found Alisa Keeton and Revelation Wellness. This has been a game changer, and The Body Revelation book dives deeper into the science (and creation) behind our bodies and how they work the way they do and why we may act or think a certain way. This book will help you change your heart (not just your body) in a way that, I know, I needed more than I realized. Definitely a must read for anyone struggling with loving their body, needing healing from all kinds of pain, and craving a deeper connection to the God that created our bodies and loves us and knows us best.
June 9, 2023
Alisa Keeton's new book, The Body Revelation, is perfect for the time we are in right now. Working from a place of rest and kindness, she takes the reader through what it looks like when our body is just surviving due to past or current pain and challenges. Then she moves through recognizing your pain, expressing your energy, humbling yourself, staying the course, and taking ownership.
Every stage is intentional and well thought out with scientifically-based information and biblically-based moments to challenge your faith. She ends each chapter with a "Mind, Mouth, Move" section that allows you to practice what she is teaching, pray, and ask God for His guidance.
Alisa reminds me of my favorite teacher in school by not only teaching but encouraging and believing in me every step of the way.
The beauty of this book is how Alisa Keeton teaches and encourages us to move away from our past, our pain, and the unfiltered beliefs of our body image straight into the arms of God.
Every stage is intentional and well thought out with scientifically-based information and biblically-based moments to challenge your faith. She ends each chapter with a "Mind, Mouth, Move" section that allows you to practice what she is teaching, pray, and ask God for His guidance.
Alisa reminds me of my favorite teacher in school by not only teaching but encouraging and believing in me every step of the way.
The beauty of this book is how Alisa Keeton teaches and encourages us to move away from our past, our pain, and the unfiltered beliefs of our body image straight into the arms of God.
May 31, 2023
Have you experienced pain or trauma? Do you feel like you will never be able to move on from past hurts? This book is a MUST READ! Journey with Alisa as she coaches you through the six stages of the Body Revelation. You will learn how to feel your feelings without doing your feelings, what it looks like to have humility, and how to recognize lies from the enemy and move towards forgiveness. Each chapter includes questions to journal through and a podcast to listen to as you move your good body. Most chapters also include a guided meditation to help you to pause, breathe, and connect with the Holy Spirit in new and deeper ways. As you enter into this study, you will surely leave changed (I know I have)!
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