
Body Talk
How to Embrace Your Body and Start Living Your Best Life
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Narrated by:
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Katie Sturino
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By:
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Katie Sturino
About this listen
Learn to love yourself and body with this adapted-for-audio guide from the body acceptance advocate, influencer, and founder of Megababe beauty.
Can you imagine how much free time you’d have if you didn’t spend so much of it body shaming yourself? Katie Sturino knows all too well what it’s like to shit talk yourself. She spent 30 years of her life feeling ashamed of her body and its self-determined wrongness. Now she doesn’t care what anyone thinks of her; she only cares that she’s happy and comfortable with herself. Body positivity and size inclusivity is still a relatively new phenomenon, but Sturino has dedicated her life to unlearning all that beauty standard BS and uses her blog, Instagram, podcast, and non-toxic, solution-oriented beauty products to share the message that changed her life: Your body is not the problem.
With Body Talk, a guide-meets-workbook, Sturino is here to help you stop obsessing about your body issues, focus on self-love, and free up space in your brain for creative and productive energy. Complete with empowering affirmations, relatable anecdotes, and actionable takeaways, Body Talk encourages you to spend less time thinking about how you look and what you eat and more time discovering your inner fierceness.
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Critic reviews
"[I]t’s one of those keep-coming-back, more-support books that you can open to just about any page and find something you’re glad you read again.” (Goop)
“[A]s impactful as Body Talk can be for young girls and those first learning about their bodies, Sturino wrote the book for all women, regardless of shape, size, age, or experience.” (Forbes)
“Sturino strives to change societal body acceptance with introspective exercises and actionable takeaways.” (Coveteur)
This should be required reading!
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Super fun and filled with good advice
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Her performance is fantastic, and I cannot wait to listen again to delve into the homework assignments. I’m buying a physical copy of this book to have at home for my tween daughter as she gets older.
Bravo, Katie!
Exactly what I need to hear in 2021
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Amen to that!
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this book is for everyone
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Needed this in my life
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Life changing!!
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Body positivity
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Loved this!
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Yay Katie!!!
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