The Inside Story by Susan Sands, PhD (Sounds True)

In The Inside Story, dr. Sands deals with new science - interoception - the body sense; the body we feel and experience from within. She promotes the integration of mind and body, which allows us to have the invigorating sense of actually living in the body, what we call “embodiment.”

The book guides us to establish a healthier relationship with our actual maturing bodies. Not of shame, fear, hatred but of love, appreciation, tenderness, and respect. Regardless of our age we still can create an older yet still positive and vital sense of our body that we can live with for the rest of our life.

The author interviewed women of different ages (from forty-eight to ninety-one years), ethnicity, socioeconomic, and health status, and also with both lifelong and recent disabilities. They speak of their body's experiences from childhood to the present and how they found pride and pleasure in their body as they aged.

Even though I am not in the age that is considered in a book, it is still a relevant, inspiring and useful guide that will help women of diverse abilities, circumstances, outlooks, and gender identities create an accepting yet still vibrant sense of their older bodies. It offers many strategies for how to live well in an aging body.

We all can experience aging as a vital, optimistic, and transformative journey.

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