Hilary Kinavey - Reclaiming Body Trust: A Path to Healing & Liberation

Reclaiming Body Trust is a compassionate, inclusive book that provides vital vocabulary and a framework for those seeking to understand and heal their relationship with their body. Using real-life narratives and their own extensive clinical experience, the authors have created a superb resource that will be life-changing for all who read it.

Jennifer L. Gaudiani, MD, CEDS-S, FAED, founder and director of the Gaudiani Clinic and author of Sick Enough: A Guide to the Medical Complications of Eating Disorders

Healing from the trauma of diet culture, body commodification, and internalized weight stigma requires a reclamation of our body as our home. We must take back that which has been stolen from us: the birthright to a body lived in with presence and delight. This beautiful book shows us how to remove the hooks that have kept us stuck and ashamed. Well done.

Amy Pershing, LMSW, ACSW, CCTP-II, coauthor of Binge Eating Disorder: The Journey to Recovery and Beyond

This book, and the Body Stories generously shared throughout it, are portals of possibility for a more compassionate, connected, and joyful relationship with your body, and a world where each of us knows the truth of the safety, dignity, and belonging that is our birthright.

Nicola Haggett, body liberationist and certified Body Trust Provider

With their trademark poetic style, Hilary and Dana hold us gently yet steadily, offering so many opportunities to reflect and explore difficult or even painful experiences with clarity, compassion, and courage as they guide us home to where weve always belongedourselves.

Fiona Sutherland, founder of The Mindful Dietitian

The journey towards embodiment can feel overwhelmingor even impossibleafter growing up in a society that taught you to hate your body. Reclaiming Body Trust is a steady and compassionate hand that will support you while taking those first steps.

Jes Baker, coach, speaker, and author of Landwhale and Things No One Will Tell Fat Girls

Hilary and Dana outline how grace through Body Trust can help many achieve what theyve always really wantedto just feel good in their skin.

Shelby Gordon, speaker, retired professional dieter, anti-racism consultant, diet-culture historian

This book invites you into relationship with your own appetites and hungers. This book will nourish you and give you permission to seek pleasure and joy. Hilary and Dana will remind us of the messiness of this healing journey and remind us to do it imperfectly.

Rachel Millner, PsyD, CED-S, CBTP, psychologist and eating-disorder specialist

Hilary and Dana hold a steady presence at our backs as we begin to heal from the legacy of anti-fat bias that has been handed down to uscalling forward new ways of being with ourselves and each other. Stitching back and forth between experiences and their meaning, Reclaiming Body Trust helps us understand the politics of how we got here, then helps answer the question I am often asked as a therapist, What can I do?

Carmen Cool, MA, LPC, CHT, psychotherapist

Reclaiming Body Trust is a manifesto to the heart of every person who ever had to shrink on an airplane or who was put on Weight Watchers as a kid. May this book be a companion to you as you find your way back to yourself. This is a book for unlearning, reclaiming, and for liberation.

Anna Chapman, founder of #fatselfcaretips

Body Trust addresses the rupture so many of us have with our bodies as we navigate diet culture, oppression, illness, disability, and aging. Hilary and Dana bring together decades of experience and stories to provide a guidebook for this journey back to ourselves.

Lisa Erlanger, MD, clinical professor emeritus of family medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine

Hilary and Dana have written such a wholehearted and tender invitation to reconnect with our bodies. Full of wisdom and hope, this is a brave and radical book that also manages to be accessible and very human. Hilary and Dana hold the stories of our bodies with such carethis book is a gift to anyone who will read it.

Vicky Bellman, MNCS-accredited, UK-based therapist

Offering easy-to-digest unpacking of BS science and cultural values, realistic and grounded examples of rituals and practices for forward motion, and the diverse personal stories of community members, Reclaiming Body Trust is like having a pocket-sized body-liberation workshop you can carry with you. The reverberations of the impact of this bookand the transformation it offerswill be palpable.

Melissa A. Fabello, PhD, author of Appetite: Sex, Touch, and Desire in Women with Anorexia

If youve ever wondered why you struggle to trust your body, within these pages is your answer. If youve ever wondered how to come home to your body in a world that makes doing so very difficult, within these pages is your map.

Rachel W. Cole, intuitive-eating counselor and life coach

Reclaiming Body Trust will shake the foundation of the diet industry with its clarity, compassion, and galvanizing call that we stop warring with ourselves and instead learn the power of trusting our bodies. The care and expertise with which Dana Sturtevant and Hilary Kinavey invite us to return home to ourselves will resonate for generations.

Dawn Serra, sex and relationship coach

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I Woke Up Like That, by Angela Braxton-Johnson, November 2017; originally published in Unchaste Anthology, vol. 2, Jenny Forrester, ed. (Portland, OR: Unchaste Press, 2017); She Majestic Tree, by Angela Braxton-Johnson, July 2018. Used by permission of the author; Excerpt from Sangha, in Go In and In: Poems from the Heart of Yoga by Danna Faulds. (Berkeley: CA: Peaceable Kingdom Press, 2002). Used by permission of the author.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Kinavey, Hilary, author. | Sturtevant, Dana, author.

Title: Reclaiming body trust: a path to healing & liberation / Hilary Kinavey, MS, LPC, and Dana Sturtevant, MS, RD.

Description: [New York]: TarcherPerigee, [2022] | Includes index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2022017131 | ISBN 9780593418666 (hardcover) | ISBN 9780593418673 (epub)

Subjects: LCSH: Body image. | Reducing dietsSocial aspects.

Classification: LCC BF697.5.B63 K568 2022 | DDC 306.4/613dc23/eng/20220418

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2022017131

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