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A guide to living and making peace with your ever-changing body
Have you ever felt like your body has failed you? Maybe youre not as quick or as strong as you used to be, or an illness has wrecked your sense of self, or no matter what diet you follow, you still feel uncomfortable in your own skin. So you go to war with your body for what it can no longer dowhen the truth is, our bodies are always on our side.
In This Is Body Grief, disability advocate and recovery expert Jayne Mattingly lays out a groundbreaking approach to mourning and accepting ones ever-changing body. Like all grief, she says, Body Grief cannot be overcome but felt in all its complexity. Dismantling the narrative that your body is against you, she presents new ways to cope with your bodys fluctuating abilities with self-compassion and grace. Along the way, she walks you through the seven stages of Body Grieffrom dismissal, shock, and self-blame to hopelessness and hope, and eventual body trustoffering wisdom for how to make space for each difficult emotion as it arises.
Sharing stories from everyday people in the throes of Body Grief as well as her own journey as a newly-disabled womanfrom the first of many harrowing hospital visits that resulted in her own life-altering diagnosis, to having to use a rollator on her wedding day because she could no longer walk safely on her own, to accepting the need for a hysterectomy in her early 30sMattingly shows that although healing isnt a linear journey, it begins when we trust and work in tandem with our bodies.
Author: Jayne Mattingly
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Penguin Life
Published: 03/18/2025
Pages: 256
Weight: 1.1lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.72d
ISBN: 9780593656792
Language: English
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