Revitalizing Self-Massage: Returning to Your Body

Revitalizing Self-Massage: Returning To Your Body explores self-touch as a form of relationship rather than technique.

Written from lived experience, this book reflects on how the body can become a place of distance, discomfort, or mistrust after trauma, illness, grief, or repeated medical intervention. Rather than offering a program or method, it invites a slower reconsideration of touch as something that can restore presence, consent, and attunement.

This work does not instruct readers to heal, fix, or improve their bodies. It does not promise relief or transformation. Instead, it offers a framework for approaching self-massage as a way of listening - noticing sensation, boundaries, and response without pressure or expectation.

The book is intended for those who are learning to inhabit their bodies again, at their own pace. It supports gentle reconnection and self-regard without performance, urgency, or outcome.

This is not a practice to master.

It is an invitation to relate differently to the body you already live in.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Lfa Publishing
Published: 06/25/2026
ISBN: 9781964694276
Pages: 106
Weight: 0.34lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.25d