Body Talk: How to Embrace Your Body and Start Living Your Best Life

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Learn to love yourself and your body with this interactive body positivity book from plus-sized style and beauty blogger and influencer Katie Sturino. Learn to love yourself and your body with this interactive guide from the "shame-free, fun, cheerful, and no-nonsense" (Bustle) body acceptance advocate and influencer who founded Megababe beauty. "Brilliant, hilarious, adorably illustrated."-Goop 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 thirty 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, an illustrated 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, as well as space to answer prompts and jot down feelings and inspirations, 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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. . . its one of those keep-coming-back, more-support books that you can open to just about any page and find something youre glad you read again.goop

. . . as 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

. . . a journey of self-acceptance and deprogramming . . .Glossy

. . . shame-free, fun, cheerful, and no-nonsense . . .Bustle

Body Talkshould be required reading for men [and] women.Cup of Jo

. . . within its colorful pages and the vibrant illustrations and positive affirmations . . . youll find an earnest message to women: your body is not the problem, and you are inherently worthy of love.Motherly

. . . aself-help guide about getting over negativity from outside cultural forces . . .WWD

[Body Talk] is a bar of body acceptance that . . . feels accessible.Vogue

Katie Sturinos body acceptance manifesto is the must-read book of the summer.NewBeauty

Author Bio

Katie Sturino is an entrepreneur, body acceptance advocate, and influencer. She uses her voice and personal style to raise awareness for size inclusively and to empower women of all shapes. Katie is also the founder of Megababe, an innovative beauty brand offering problem-solving products to help women feel more comfortable and confident in their own skin.