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A review by thejuliancrossonhill
Your Body is Your Brain: Leverage Your Somatic Intelligence to Find Purpose, Build Resilience, Deepen Relationships and Lead More Powerfully by Amanda Blake
3.0
I'm a little mixed about this book. While I thought it was very good overall, I didn't feel like it fully delivered what was promised. Let me share the good and the not great about this book.
On the good, the author puts forth a really great 4-part model for embodied leadership and breaks the book down into chapters by the actions and traits of each of the 4 parts. Each chapter has a really interesting case study on how someone used somatic work and embodied leadership to overcome their personal challenges. Each chapter also gives some great information on the science behind somatics and embodied leadership. I found that really useful and interesting. Overall, this would've made it a 5-star book IF, it had been clearer that it was primarily case studies of how working with a somatic coach for embodied leadership coach can help you.
This brings me to the bad. Actual practices that the reader can do to "Leverage your somatic intelligence...etc." are left to a short appendix in the back. They left me wanting. While there were some good practices and instruction, I don't think that they're going to allow the average reader to do what the title suggests.
Overall, the big takeaway from the book is that a somatic coach can be extremely effective and helpful. The average reader of this book will need to find and work with one to achieve the book's stated objective as it's rather light on actual techniques to put to use.
On the good, the author puts forth a really great 4-part model for embodied leadership and breaks the book down into chapters by the actions and traits of each of the 4 parts. Each chapter has a really interesting case study on how someone used somatic work and embodied leadership to overcome their personal challenges. Each chapter also gives some great information on the science behind somatics and embodied leadership. I found that really useful and interesting. Overall, this would've made it a 5-star book IF, it had been clearer that it was primarily case studies of how working with a somatic coach for embodied leadership coach can help you.
This brings me to the bad. Actual practices that the reader can do to "Leverage your somatic intelligence...etc." are left to a short appendix in the back. They left me wanting. While there were some good practices and instruction, I don't think that they're going to allow the average reader to do what the title suggests.
Overall, the big takeaway from the book is that a somatic coach can be extremely effective and helpful. The average reader of this book will need to find and work with one to achieve the book's stated objective as it's rather light on actual techniques to put to use.