Workbook
The Body You Live In
A Workbook for Rebuilding Your Relationship With Your Physical Self After Illness, Surgery, or Significant Change
Your body's been through something. That changes the relationship, not the belonging.
For the person whose relationship with their body changed after illness, surgery, chronic pain, or disability — who feels estranged from a body that no longer works or looks the way it did.
The Name It First Experience
Your body did not fail you. It went through something. But if you are living in a body that has changed — through illness, surgery, disability, or significant physical event — it is possible to feel like a stranger in your own skin. This workbook rebuilds the relationship. You leave with Your Somatic Peace Treaty. The output is not a recovery plan. It is a signed agreement with the body you have.
You can opt into 30-, 60-, and 90-day check-ins from your account. We recommend you do — the point is to see what changed.
Sample questions
- How has your relationship with your body changed — and what do you wish it could become?
- What has your body been through that deserves to be acknowledged?
- Where does the gap between how you see your body and how you want to see it feel widest?
Research basis
Grounded in somatic psychology (Levine) on trauma stored in the body / Post-Traumatic Growth (Tedeschi & Calhoun) on identity reconstruction after physical rupture / and Self-Compassion (Neff) on the relationship between self-compassion and body image in illness.
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A real book and a pen. Write in the margins. The most permanent version of you on a page.
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The full guide on any screen, with a companion journal to write your answers by hand.
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Audiobook
We read every question and every scenario aloud. For the commute, the walk, the dishes.
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The keepsake edition — sewn, ribboned, made to sit on a shelf and be returned to.
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Digital Fill + membership+membership
Answer on screen. Your responses save as you go and assemble into your finished document.
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Hands-Free Interactive + membership+membership
Listen to each question and speak your answer. We capture it. You never touch a keyboard.
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The Essential path takes you to your finished document by the questions that matter most. The Full-depth path walks every question, every scenario, every angle. Both produce the same signed document — one just goes deeper on the way there.
Essential path
Shorter sessions. The questions that go directly to the document.
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Every question. Every scenario, every angle.
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