This isn’t another book about getting your body right.
There are plenty of books that will tell you what to eat, how to move, what to track, the latest supplement, and what you should be doing better.
This isn’t that book.
Your health is bigger than what you do with your body. It’s shaped by what you feel, what you carry, what you believe, how you live, and what holds you through all of it.
Living BodyBright is an intimate look at how your body, your emotions, your relationships, your faith, and the life you’re living are all connected to your health.
It’s an invitation to question some of what you’ve always believed about being healthy and open up to the possibility of a different way.
We’re going underneath the rules, the plans, and all the ways we’ve been told to get healthy. We’re going to you, to the life you were created to live, and to a deeper connection with The Center that holds you through all of it.
THE PROMISE OF LIVING BODYBRIGHT
Come home to a body you can hear, a soul you can feel, and a life that is so much bigger than how you look in the mirror.
By the last page of Living BodyBright, you will see your health differently. I promise.
You’ll begin to hear your body again. Not as something demanding to be smaller, better, younger, or more beautiful, but as something that has been speaking wisdom to you all along.
You’ll understand what’s underneath the exhausting pursuit of finally achieving healthy and why getting your body “right” was never the answer.
And you’ll discover something far more powerful than finally liking what you see in the mirror:
You’ll discover the feeling of coming home to yourself.
To your body.
To your soul.
To what makes you come alive.
To the life you were created to live.
And ultimately, to the Center that holds you through it all.
Health was never meant to be a lifelong pursuit of looking better. It was meant to help you return to yourself and live the life you were created to live.
Waking up to that truth is the promise of Living BodyBright.
A glimpse of where we’re going
This Is How I Know You Can Do This
You are capable of more change than you know. We’ll start with why I’m so certain.
Waking Up the Driver
What if you’ve been trying to change your health without realizing how much of it has been running on autopilot?
Learning to Feel What We Feel
Your feelings don’t disappear when you ignore them. They go somewhere. We’ll learn where they go, why we need to listen to them, and how to listen.
The Center That Holds
Beneath all the striving and searching is something steady. A place to return when life gets loud and a way back home to the life you were created to live.
These are only a few of the places
we’ll go together.
(More to come as the book nears release.)
If you’d like to walk through these places with Deanna and a small group, join us in January.
Come as you are.
There is no version of you required for this journey.
You can come tired, exhausted or excited and ready for something new. You can come strong and curious, uncertain and searching, or barely able to imagine feeling well again.
You can come with a faith that feels steady, one full of questions, or no idea what you believe.
You can come loving your life or wondering how you wandered so far from yourself.
There is no made-up schedule you should be keeping. No place you should have reached by now.
Wherever life has you, we begin there.
FROM THE AUTHOR
There are parts of my story I spent years wishing I could rewrite.
The addiction. The eating disorder. The hiding. The years I believed getting my body just right might somehow make everything else right too.
Now, at this point in my life I wouldn’t erase any of my story.
Somewhere in all that searching, healing, falling down, getting back up, falling down again, and finding God in places I never expected, Living BodyBright began.
I wrote this book for the woman I used to be.
If I could, I’d place it in her hands at 20 years old…when she thought she knew exactly what she needed and spent years chasing it.
What she really needed was a guidepost. Something to help her find her way back to herself. Back to the Center that had been holding her all along. Back home.
I can’t go back and place this book in her hands. But I can place it in yours.
— With hope & love,
Deanna Kanaman
