She's All Fat Fave Fat Books of 2018

I was so thrilled to hear the Reclaiming Beauty Journal & Wisdom Deck mentioned on the She’s All Fat podcast Fat Books Reading Round-up for 2018. What an honor to be included with some of the most influential books and authors on the subjects of body positivity, body liberation and fat acceptance including The Body is Not An Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love by Sonya Renee Taylor, Landwhale by Jes Baker, You Have the Right to Remain Fat by Virgie Tovar and Body Positive Power: How to Stop Dieting, Make Peace with Your Body and Live by Megan Jayne Crabbe. Feeling proud to be the “cool aunt with a feather scarf” part of the body positivity community. You can enjoy the podcast here.

Here’s what the podcast hosts Sophie and April had to say about the Reclaiming Beauty Journal & Wisdom Deck:

“We were sent this beautiful big workbook and card deck that go together called, The Reclaiming Beauty Journal and Wisdom Deck by Heidi Andersen, and with illustrations by Leah Joy. This is for you or your cool aunt whose part of a knitting circle. It's very pretty, and very artsy. It's like for someone who has done some mediation and maybe has a scarf with a feather print on it. It's all about kindness practices towards yourself, affirmations. There's journaling prompts. There's little things in there with stuff about different cultures and you can draw a card from the deck, and then that's the thing you meditate on for the day.

It's basically perfect for someone who's looking for a more meditative and compassion meditation focused approach to self-love, and somewhat body positivity but it's more like the meditation mindfulness, compassionate mindfulness version of it.

Going through a book like this one if a form of self-care. Doing the other stuff is like doing work on yourself intellectually, and this is like doing work on being kind to yourself but not in a bubble bath way. Some of the journaling prompts that I saw were like, "What are the toxic things you think about your body? And like why are you so mean to yourself?"

It's less rah-rah, and it's more like, let's take a second and breathe. That's nice, and it’s needed.”

Thanks for the mention and the support, Sophie & April!