A true story about building a healthy relationship with our emotions and body to find peace of mind
The Body Talks Back
A powerful story that shines a light on the relationship we each have with our own body.
In modern societies, where many of us are figuratively disconnected from our body at the neck, mostly absorbed in our thoughts, this insightful memoir explores the healing nature of reconnecting our minds with our bodies.
The Body Talks Back gives readers an intimate, raw portrayal of how health crises can place us at the mercy of doctors' decisions and invasive procedures, while also gracefully finding the silver lining in these experiences.
By building healthy relationships with our emotions and body, we can develop a deeper sense of connection with ourselves and adopt a more nurturing stance toward our body. Especially during times of illness, this allows us to work with our body, rather than feeling betrayed by it. The result is an extraordinary peace of mind that can be garnered irrespective of our physical experiences.
While Sherrie Laryse weaves insights from neuroscience as well as philosophical ideas around consciousness and the mind-body connection, ultimately, The Body Talks Back is a beautiful love story.
“Deeply moving. It hooked my heart, mind and soul.”
- Richard Miller PhD, founder of iRest Institute, author of Yoga Nidra: The iRest Meditative Practice
Praise for
The Body Talks Back
Deeply moving
by Richard Miller, PhD
I found Sherrie Laryse’s book, The Body Talks Back, to be a true “page turner” that I couldn’t put down. Each chapter of her true story ended on a cliff-hanger that kept me reading to the book’s end in one sitting.
I loved Sherrie’s engaging style that kept me riveted and page-bound engaged, with each chapter inviting me ever more deeply into her unfolding narrative, longing for the outcome Sherrie, too, yearned to experience. I won’t disclose the ending, as I hope you’ll take the plunge, and feel as deeply moved as I did.
While true stories abound, I rarely come upon a book like Sherrie’s, which hooked my heart, mind, and soul and had me marvelling at her ability to creatively navigate the continual barrage of challenges she faced with true grace and grit, faltering at times, but continually rising to the trials life brought unbidden into her life.
About the author
My aim is to empower people to feel a sense of freedom in who they are—as they are.
I am an emotional intelligence teacher with 14+ years working in human behaviour, neurolinguistics, grief, trauma, psychosomatics, neurodivergence and mental illness, yoga and meditation. My fascination with the human psyche also has me completing a Bachelor of Cognitive and Brain Science (with a good measure of Philosophy subjects on the side). I am a self-confessed study-addict. I love to learn and then I love to share what I've learned. This cycle lights me up.
My focus is sharing techniques that work, so people have the skills to process challenges that inevitably arise in life, as well as work through past challenges. I do this through private emotional intelligence consultations, public speaking, and, of course, the written word. How I love to write . . .
This second book, The Body Talks Back, shares a meditation technique that I called on to help me overcome what I thought was a stress-related health challenge. As the challenges increased, my meditations evolved to meet each heightened new moment. The meditation technique naturally developed into the ability to effectively access deep-seated emotions that were unprocessed and sitting dormant within. Additionally, I was able to deeply connect with the symptomatic parts of my body—as if they had a consciousness of their own.
I share this new, organically developed meditation style, not as a 'how to', but in story-form, with examples of different situations so that you, too, can call on the technique with the understanding that it will unfold naturally in your way for your situation.
