Book Review: The Body is Not an Apology

Image and review from Olivia (@livvinabook)

The body is not an apology is a book geared towards us as people, reconnecting with the radical origins of our minds and bodies while celebrating our strength. First off, gorgeous cover. This was a blind buy for me, but it mentioned it was a self-help/ self-love book on the cover and I’m all for both. Unfortunately, this book fell a little short for me. I zoned out a few times in the beginning while physically reading it so then I switched to audio to follow along that way. 

The best thing about this book to me outside of the cover is the radical self-love toolkit. The book could have been centered around just that and landed better for me personally. Where the book had the potential to dive deeper on certain topics, it skimmed past them. Then the things that didn't need to be explained as much, dragged on or were brought up repeatedly. Alot of the time it read like self-affirmations, which I love a self-affirmation just as much as the next person, but after finishing the book and reading the synopsis I thought there should have been more ways to de-program all the bad things we’ve been taught in regards to how we view our body and how we treat other people because of theirs. 

Spoiler, there is no real mention of that. Although repetitive at times, I like the concept of the book just not the execution. For it to be a rather short book, it somehow was long and pretty safe/ surface level in regard to the material that was discussed. Out of five stars I would give it three just because there's something there, just not necessarily for me.