Reclaiming Body Trust

A Path to Healing & Liberation

By: Hilary Kinavey MS LPC, Dana Sturtevant MS RD

Narrated by: Hilary Kinavey MS LPC, Angela Braxton-Johnson, Nicky Endres, Eileen Stevens, Jessica Almasy

A holistic and powerful framework for accepting and liberating our bodies and ourselves.

Have you ever felt uncomfortable or not “at home” in your body? In this book, the founders of Body Trust, licensed therapist Hilary Kinavey and registered dietician Dana Sturtevant, invite listeners to break free from the status quo and reject a diet culture that has taken advantage and profited from trauma, stigma, and disembodiment, and fully 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, listeners will be anchored by the authors’ innovative and 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.

©2022 Hilary Kinavey and Dana Sturtevant (P)2022 Penguin Audio

Everyone with a body needs to listen to this book

This is an amazing book that everyone with a body needs to hear! I can’t wait to listen again!

Beautiful and healing

As someone who has read and re read as many body positivity and self love books and articles as I could get my hand on, none have been as healing and liberating as this book. It took me on a journey and made me face my self in a way no other has done. Truly an amazing listen and a recommendation for anyone with a body.

So eye opening and helpful

I've tried to describe why I love this book so many times, but I just can't do it justice.

It's an extremely unique reading experience, I hope everyone gives it a read.

I wish I’d had this book 20 years ago!!

This book is life changing for me.

Body shame is not a “thinking problem,” but a very real experience of having a body that is constantly subject to othering and pathologizing.

So grateful to have this book help me shift my thinking around cultural behaviors, the lens through which I view myself and the world around me, and my relationship to myself and my body. Highly recommend!!

A special important book for all of us

I appreciate this book and the points raised, it's a welcome invitation for all.

Body Trust is revolutionary.

I am a mental health professional who also has a lifelong struggle with diet culture and disordered eating. This book holds the foundations to divesting from these harmful institutions, and living your life in a way that honors your body story and helps you in the journey of healing your relationship with your body.

Profound and enlightening

Racism is insidious and has shaped so much more than I ever thought. Our society is based on a very small group of people with no consideration to genetics, access, different cultures or perspective.

Powerful Perspective!

As a provider for an Eating Disorder hospital this was an eye-opening perspective and very personally transformative.

“I Woke Up Like That” - Trusting This Body

Thank you Dana and Hillary and every single person who helped make this book a reality! 👏🏾🙏🏾🙌🏾💙🥰
This is now one of the most important books in my library (right up there with my colonized Bible) as my Body Trust journey has led me on a path of Liberation and Self Acceptance; thus the “I woke up like that poem” that I wrote after my first year of doing this work.

I love, love, LOVE listening to Hillary and all of the narrators – including me (hee hee hee 🤭) – Read these very radical, true and powerful words as I drive, move, knit, etc. Body Trust is my birthright. And it is yours too, Honey Child. Mmhmm.

If you are tired of: dieting, not feeling OK in your own body, living your life by external cues instead of listening to our own body’s cues, and for so many more reasons, I highly recommend this book!

My life has opened up so much since I began this work and so far it is the most impactful work in healing my relationship with my body and with food. Today, I unapologetically LOVE both my black, fat, oldish, disabled body AND, I love me some food! I also love this book and my Body Trust practice.

Lots of good stuff

I loved the revolutionary but intrinsic lessons lauded, instilled. I am saddened by the lack of guidance that our nation has in living life, not just being happy. I believe the body trust encouraged herein is beautiful. At the same time, the lack of guidance extends even to the authors in their inclusion of things against the blueprint of our being human, in the overly emphasized philosophy of acceptance; acceptance of posts to ourselves that really need redirection. I think that we need to learn about how to approach transgender and queer orientation. I don't think categorical acceptance is helpful. I empathize and care for that community, their struggle, their marginalization, their experience of being told similar things to this post followed or accompanied by aggression; and yet I also believe their true freedoms and happiness lie in something slightly different than undauntedly tuning in to that piece of their current self with agreement, without out hesitation, self analysis and higher value, or real truthful guidance. I do think truthful guidance is a possibility, a reality. Instead, the authors seen to encourage running with whatever people think and feel they need for themselves. But, though it's hard, and triggers in many if us anger and alarm to have to second-guess ourselves or to have self doubt, I think it's a healthy part to our quest in becoming or real selves. There are often difficult choices in life, tuning in to ourselves is vital, but it's often misguided and thus misunderstood, which the authors don't hesitate to throw under the bus. Blessings.