My Body Kept Receipts - Softcover

Hammond, Merica

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798185614860

Verlag: Independently published, 2026

Inhaltsangabe

What if your body is not betraying you—what if it has been trying to tell your story?

My Body Kept Receipts is a deeply personal, trauma-informed guide to understanding how stress, grief, childhood adversity, unhealthy relationships, and survival can continue shaping the body long after the danger has passed.

Through honest storytelling and practical reflection, Merica Hammond explores the hidden patterns that can grow from survival: people-pleasing, hypervigilance, overthinking, difficulty resting, fear of abandonment, confusing being needed with being loved, and feeling unsafe even when life is finally calm.

Blending lived experience with accessible education about the nervous system and mind-body connection, this book helps readers recognize that many of their reactions are not signs of weakness. They may be learned ways of staying safe.

Inside, readers will find gentle, realistic tools using breathwork, mindfulness, yoga, journaling, body awareness, boundaries, and self-compassion. These practices are not presented as quick fixes, but as small ways to rebuild trust with yourself and begin feeling at home in your body again.

This book is for anyone who has ever wondered:

Why do I keep repeating the same patterns?
Why does rest make me feel guilty?
Why does my body react before my mind understands?
Why can’t I just move on?

Your body may have kept the receipts.

But you do not have to keep paying for them forever.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Independently published
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2026
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 13: 9798185614860
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 197
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Manufactured by Amazon on behalf of the author; https://www.amazon.de/hz/contact-us; ; c/o Amazon Media EU S.à.r.l., 38 Avenue John F. Kennedy; Luxembourg; L-1855; Luxemburg