This Is Body Grief By Jayne Mattingly

A path to making peace with your ever-changing body

Have you ever felt uncomfortable in your own body? Perhaps you’re navigating the unwanted rhythms of aging, an unexpected illness or disability, society’s impossible and forever-changing beauty standards, or the feeling that your body has “betrayed” you in some way. If this is you, you are not alone. This experience has a Body Grief.

In This Is Body Grief, Jayne Mattingly offers a healing path through Body Grief so you can feel at home in the skin you’re in. Having navigated Body Grief as both an eating disorder recovery coach and as a newly chronically ill and disabled person and advocate, Mattingly walks readers through the range of complex emotions that encompasses this experience with intimate understanding and compassion, starting with dismissal, shock, and anger. Ultimately, she shows your body has never been, is not, and will never be against you. Self-love begins when you learn to trust and work in tandem with your body as it is in this very moment.

Although the journey through Body Grief may not be linear, This Is Body Grief shows it’s possible to feel at peace with the skin you’re in.