Body Confidence

“Our body is so much more than a virus host! Let’s reclaim its wonderful capacity for self-awareness and contact experience – by (re-)learning to trust it.”

How to rediscover the joy of your own body

Our body is our gateway to the world. Feeling rain on our faces, tasting an oriental dish, breathing in the scent of dry pine cones, sinking into an embrace, moving to music: Only through our bodies are we able to do all. Whenever we feel, act and create, life has a completely different intensity than when we just consume something.

In this highly topical book, Ruth Knaup shows us how important it is that we turn to our bodies in a positive way again, and how we can succeed in this in everyday life: through physical closeness to others, making music, experiencing nature, mindful eating as well as physically tangible spirituality. When we meet our body with appreciation and pleasure and enjoy its wealth of sensations, we directly experience what it means to be truly alive.

• A passionate plea for a return to a more physical life in times of digitalisation and social distancing
• Insights from psychology and neuroscience into the indispensability of human proximity
• From a long-standing recognised body expert