
The Inside Story
The Surprising Pleasures of Living in an Aging Body
By: Susan Sands, Kristen Wixted
Hardcover | 11 October 2022
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What if the secret to healthy aging has been inside of you all along? Find out in this enlightening guide to better aging through embodiment for women at midlife and beyond.
"A delicious brew of new knowledge and fresh ideas, seasoned with a feminism that spans a long, rich life. What a treat!" --Valory Mitchell, PhD, coauthor of the 50-year adult development study Women on the River of Life
"This is a work of love to women." --Susie Orbach, author of Fat is a Feminist Issue and Bodies
"[Sands] notes how with aging comes greater freedom and happiness, a more meaningful perspective on life, and a transformative capacity for body awareness. By outlining the many benefits of aging and offering practical strategies for wholesome living during the senior years, Sands ignites a genuine excitement about the aging process." --Spirituality & Health magazine
The new science of embodiment tells us that "body sense," or interoceptive awareness, is a crucial factor for our well-being across the span of our lives. In this eye-opening and wide-ranging book, body image expert Dr. Susan Sands unpacks the research to make a bold call to aging women to find safe harbor from the ravages of age right where they strike the deepest--in the body. "How can we manage the losses of aging? Stop focusing on the 'outside body' that others see--the one you may think is too fat, too wrinkled, or too saggy--and move your attention to the 'inside body' that you sense and feel."
With wise and humorous insight, Dr. Sands calls on case studies, personal stories, and scientific findings to help us rewrite the cultural beliefs that put us at odds with our own bodies. Powerful yet accessible embodiment tools such as meditation, yoga, breathing practices, and neural feedback techniques make this a practical as well as enlightening self-care manifesto for women at midlife and beyond.
"This book is not about trying to look fifty when you're seventy or thirty when you're fifty," writes Dr. Sands. "It's about forging a healthier relation-ship with your actual maturing body--a relationship of respect, appreciation, tenderness, and yes, even love."
About the AuthorSusan Sands, PhD, is a clinical psychologist known for her trailblazing work in female development and body-based disorders. She incorporates Buddhist thought and meditation into her work with patients. A former journalist, she publishes and presents widely on the topic of eating disorders and body image, and she is a core faculty member at the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California in San Francisco. She lives and practices in Berkeley, California.
ISBN: 9781683648093
ISBN-10: 1683648099
Published: 11th October 2022
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Number of Pages: 248
Audience: General Adult
Publisher: St Martins Press
Country of Publication: AU
Dimensions (cm): 23.6 x 16 x 2.5
Weight (kg): 0.42
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