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Coming Home to Body and Self
A journal for daily reflection

by Kathy Nichols

www.healthyhabitscoach.com/

This book is a journal. Here are reflections to ponder, to hold and to write about. They invite you home, to deepen your relationship with your own body and with your own true self. Think of it like a journey, an exploration into new territory. This territory is you!

The sections are:

Each page contains a question or set of questions, and then lined space to write about your reflections. This book is a journey of discovery that begins to change your relationship with your body and your self. The book is not directly about food or nutrition, but it does address many of the types of feelings that may trigger you to eat even when you are not hungry. It expands perspectives and provides tools to be more comfortable in your own skin.

Each of us makes assumptions about our life and the world around us. These assumptions are not good or bad in themselves, but when they are unconscious they can impact our actions without us even knowing it. Reflecting and journaling are ways to explore what your ideas and beliefs actually are. That way you can decide which are useful and which cause you pain. Just becoming more aware of them increases your choices. Becoming aware begins to change how you think.

Printed version $12.00
If you would like a printed version mailed to you, choose this option. The spiral binding makes it easy to fold at any page for easy writing. 77 pages.  
Ebook $8.00
If you would like access to the book right now and will print your own copy, choose this option. There are 77 numbered pages, 82 total pages.  

Here are random examples of the reflections in the book:

Being at home in your body

  • Think of your relationship with your body just as you would think of a relationship with a spouse, child or friend. Each relationship you are in has a special quality or tone. It can vary from day to day, but generally has certain characteristics. What characterizes your relationship with your body? What is this relationship like for you?
  • Do you feel at home in your body? Do you sometimes feel shut off or disconnected? If so, when does that happen? How do you know?
  • How does your body communicate with you? Have you ever had the experience of having a knot in your stomach while you speak to someone and then realize later that something wasn’t right? Often our body knows before we do. How does your body “talk” to you? What are the internal clues that there is something going on?
  • Other entries include reflections on being tired, being angry, being unsettled, processing emotions, being present, and how we think of beauty.

Caring for the self

  • Right now! Do you feel full or empty? If full, what is that like? How does that sit in your body? How is it in your mind? If empty, what is that like? What is the feel of empty in body and mind?
  • When you feel empty, how do you fill yourself?
  • What is important to you? Where does your time go each day? Do you allow time for what is important? What kind of priority do you give to the things that matter the most?
  • Other entries include reflection on what drains you, what makes you happy, where you argue with your life, what you are grateful for, and what success means to you.

Discovering your true self

  • Who are you? Call on your own, deep, inner wisdom. Reach inside to the core of you. What are the traits or qualities that make you YOU? Without judgments of good or bad, what do you find?

  • What do you have control over? What things are you trying to control that you can’t? What can you control that you don’t (for example: saying No)?
  • When do you think in terms of “all or none”? Most of us do this far more often than we realize! When do you engage in this kind of thinking, and how does it affect you? When is it useful? When is it not? Keep paying attention throughout the day and notice how often it comes up.
  • Other entries include reflection on responsibility, things we believe can’t be changed, integrity, and how we define and are impacted by power.

Engaging the sensuous

  • Come in to your senses. What can you see right now? What can you hear? Can you smell anything? Is there a taste lingering on your tongue? What sensations play against your skin? Check in with and describe each sense as you are experiencing it right now.
  • Play with sounds. Without labels, notice the nature of the sounds themselves. How does sound touch you? Besides with your ears, how do you hear?
  • How do you define sensual? Do you associate it with sex? Do you associate it with your felt senses? Is sensuality appealing and desirable to you, or is the idea uncomfortable? See if you can think of sensual in a way that is playful and alluring, inviting you into relationship with your body. How broad can you make your definition?
Printed version $12.00
If you would like a printed version mailed to you, choose this option. The spiral binding makes it easy to fold at any page for easy writing. 77 pages.  
Ebook $8.00
If you would like access to the book right now and will print your own copy, choose this option. There are 77 numbered pages, 82 total pages.