In What a Body Knows, Kimerer LaMothe reveals the healing wisdom in our seemingly wayward desires for food, sex, and spirit.
In What a Body Knows, Kimerer LaMothe reveals the healing wisdom in our seemingly wayward desires for food, sex, and spirit.
Happiness, Mind & body, Motivational & inspirational
There is wisdom in desire. It is a wisdom impelling us to move in ways that align our pleasure with our health and well-being. Yet trained as we are in mind over body ways of living, we tend to perceive our desires as unruly forces that we must control or be controlled by. We blame our desires for our dissatisfaction. We have learned to ignore what our bodies know. In response, What a Body Knows offers a new philosophy of bodily becoming that welcomes our desires as the best resources we have in guiding us to the health and well-being we seek. Focusing on our desires for food, sex, and spirit, LaMothe explains how we can shift our experience of these desires, and learn to find, trust, and move with the wisdom they contain. Kimerer LaMothe is an award-winning philosopher, dancer, and scholar of religion and lives on a farm in rural New York.
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"What a Body Knows is a perfect book to recommend... It contains gentle and easily understood wisdom about how to live and move more fully as the body that we are, that we have become, and that we will become as we continue the process of learning to pay attention to ourselves." For full review see: http://rosenjournal.org/journal/6/4.pdf ~ Alan Fogel, Rosen International Journal
Kimerer considers our three fundamental desires - for food, sex and spirit - and shows the wisdom in each, as they guide us to satisfaction and development. ~ Cygnus Review
"What a Body Knows" is a choice pick for self-help and philosophy collections. ~ James A Cox, Midwest Book Review
"I simply cannot praise the book enough! The prose is positively brilliant. It is full of sparkling gems of insight and astonishing, concise yet profound formulations. The nature passages remind me of Annie Dillard. It is truly a remarkable achievement!" ~ Miranda Shaw, Ph.D., Professor of Religion, University of Richmond, Author of Passionate Enlightenment: Women in Tantric Buddhism and Buddhist Goddesses of India
"A provocative, humorous, and deeply personal exploration of modern
western culture's dysfunctional relation to desire. Tracking our obsessions with food, sex and spiritual fulfillment, LaMothe charts an original path -- satisfying to a scholar and rich in stories of farm life -- that yields uncommon insights relevant to our time. A wise and wonderful book!" ~ William M. Throop, Ph.D., Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs, Green Mountain College
“It has been a holistic pleasure to read this book, to live with this book. The book beckons its reader to live the text, to respond to reading the pages with all forms of movement: new life, change, growth and new, more evolved bodily consciousness. This text should have quite an impact on those lucky enough to read it. Bravo.†~ Courtney Bickel Lamberth, Ph.D., Assistant Dean, Lecturer on the Study of Religion, Harvard College
“LaMothe mixes descriptions of living as a mother, dancer, and writer at beautiful Hebron Hollow farm with reflections on all the desires that move her. It is such an affirming book, generous and welcoming of desire as a source of guidance for life!†~ Kathleen Roberts Skerrett, Ph.D., Associate Dean, Grinnell College
"LaMothe points us back to our most primitive and meaningful source of knowing, the body. She beautifully uses her own experience to illustrate the path of discovering what her body knows and the wisdom in desire. This is something to be savored and contemplated." ~ Susan L. Franklin, Psy.D., Clinical psychologist in private practice
