The Nude Resert: Why Stripping Down Will Change and Recharge Your Life: 30

It was a completely ordinary Tuesday when I had a small breakdown that led to this book. I was sitting at my desk (naked, as usual, working from home) trying to focus on a project. But I couldn't concentrate. My mind was spinning with a dozen different anxieties: a deadline I was worried about missing, a relationship conflict I hadn't resolved, financial stress about an upcoming expense, general existential dread about whether I was doing enough with my life. I was also physically tense. My shoulders were up around my ears. My jaw wasclenched. My breathing was shallow. I'd been sitting in the same position for probably two hours without moving. And I thought: I'm literally naked right now. I've spent years developing body acceptance and learning to be comfortable without clothes. I've written multiple books about nudism and authenticity and living undefended. And I'm still this tense, this anxious, this disconnected from my actual physical existence. Being naked had become background information. I wasn't actually experiencing being in my body anymore. I was just...a brain, spinning anxiously, happening to be housed in a naked form that I was completely ignoring. I stood up from my desk, walked to my bedroom, and lay down on my bed. Just lay there. Naked. Not doing anything. Not checking my phone. Not planning or worrying or thinking about the next task. Just...existing. In a body. Breathing.

Pagina's: 129, Paperback, Independently published