Now in paperback! RECLAIMING BODY TRUST: Break Free from a Culture of Body Perfection, Disordered Eating, and Other Traumas, by Hilary Kinavey and Dana Sturtevant (Tarcher Perigee, August 2022; paperback February 2024)
A holistic and powerful framework for accepting and liberating our bodies, and ourselves.
“Essential reading for anyone who has struggled to feel at home in their body or to conform their body to external standards.”
—Savala Nolan, author of Don’t Let It Get You Down
Have you ever felt uncomfortable or not “at home” in your body? In this book, the founders of Body
Trust, therapist Hilary Kinavey and dietitian Dana Sturtevant, invite readers to break free from the status quo and reject a culture that has taken advantage and profited from trauma, stigma, and disembodiment, and reclaim and embrace their bodies. Informed by the personal body stories of the hundreds of people they have worked with, Reclaiming Body Trust delineates an intersectional, social justice−orientated path to healing in three phases: The Rupture, The Reckoning, and The Reclamation. Throughout, readers will be anchored by the authors’ revolutionary Body Trust framework to discover a pathway out of a rigid, mechanistic way of thinking about the body and into a more authentic, sustainable way to occupy and nurture our bodies.
disordered eating body shame, and the impact of weight bias and other traumas. They are sought after speakers, writers and consultants to health care organizations.