Hornthal’s Body Aware explains how beneficial movement helps the body heal. Movement therapy gets overlooked quite often as a source of mental healing.

Through three different sections (How You Move, How Movement Is A Catalyst For Change, and Transforming Your Life Through Movement), Body Aware presents easy to understand concepts of intentionally moving and benefits of doing so.

You will learn things like interpreting your body’s own language, exploring where you hold emotions within the body physically, determining emotional blockages, and transforming harmful thoughts to positive ones that generate emotional resilience. Hornthal even covers diversity and disability.

While I loved that there were sections on disability and movement diversity, I felt disappointed more concrete changes weren’t included. I do better with specifics.

Reading through the book did encourage me to seek out my own ways to move differently. I’ve started spontaneously dancing more often. I finally got around to starting Qigong as exercise I can do with my ME (Myalgic encephalomyelitis) and long COVID.

*******Many thanks to Netgalley and North Atlantic Books for providing an egalley in exchange for a fair and honest review.