What are people saying about the book?
Gosia Jankowska
Australia
The Body Remembers is one of those rare books that stays with you long after you’ve turned the last page. I was completely hooked and devoured it in two days. There were moments that genuinely brought me to tears as well as many “aha moments”, where complex biology suddenly feels intuitive, almost obvious. If you’ve ever wanted to truly understand your body - not just in parts, but as a whole - this is a must-read.
Mark Walsh
Australia
I started reading Laura’s book, The Body Remembers, without any preconceived thoughts. What I found was an extremely well-written book that has given me a better insight into how to manage stress and illness. Having been resuscitated twice after major heart surgery, I only wished that I had read Laura’s book earlier, although thankfully, I had excellent family and friends support during my recovery.
I can recommend this book to anyone, not only those whose lives “have been touched by trauma, illness, cancer, or unexplained symptoms”.
Laura, is obviously an extremely intelligent, curious, caring and thoughtful person.
Georgeana Sá
Switzerland
Reading The Body Remembers was a truly transformative experience. The book beautifully and sensitively shows how the emotions we go through in each phase of our lives don’t simply disappear — they become embedded in the body and directly influence our physical and emotional health.
Throughout the reading, it becomes clear that what we don’t process internally can manifest in other ways, often silently, yet very real. It is a powerful invitation to self-awareness, self-care, and a deeper understanding of our own story.
I have immense admiration for Laura Sinay for bringing such an essential subject to light with so much humanity.
Donna Grant
Australia
This is a very clever piece of writing which took me on a visual journey. Everything made so much sense as I walked through the Village, saw the Play and watched the Biological Dance. ‘The Body Remembers’ is accessible, insightful, genuine. Thank you Laura - it’s what I needed to read.
Chris Byrnes
Australia
Have just read Laura’s first book about the body remembers . A very real and inspiring book about the body we all live in and how we can either enhance or destroy what we have all been given. Can’t wait to read the next book Laura creates.
Carol Stewart
Australia
The village concept is a unique and highly digestible way to look at health and disease to thrive in life.
Lilliana Walsh
Australia
In The Body Remembers, Laura’s voice rings true as she uses the metaphor of a village to describe the body’s response to trauma in a unique way. Her poetic style allowed me to slow down and absorb each phrase.
Paulo Henrique
Brazil
I loved the book.
The writing is beautiful, and everything in it comes straight from the heart.
There is such sensitivity in the words and in the way you convey the feelings that follow trauma.
The loss, the fall, and the rise again.
The new phase, and the reprogramming of both mind and body.
It is a book that brings a very intuitive way of seeing the human body and understanding how things work.
A book that teaches us how to prepare ourselves for unexpected situations, such as a serious health problem.
Denise House
Australia
This book is one that you could go back and read and read again to fully understand how our body reacts to trauma, a book that is needed for students studying nursing or any other medical field or someone who just wants to translate their body reaction
Deb Caruso
Australia
Congratulations - I have been reading it and it's great - I really love the tone and how you break it all down and take the reader on a journey into their own village. amazing! xxx
Ingrid Dakó
Brazil
I read the preview of the book, and I am very interested and curious about the direction you, Laura, will take with your writing. I was very happy to hear about your book, believing that writing for others is one of the ways we work through trauma and process grief — something that, for each person, has its own timing. Your ability to reconnect and engage with life is singular and admirable. I’m looking forward to following your journey here.
Cristina Sinay
Brasil
I am beginning the delicate task of offering my opinion on a book that is completely different from all the others I have read in my life—and there have been many. I am referring to The Body Remembers, written by Dr. Laura Sinay, my daughter.
From the moment I learned about her idea of writing the trilogy “The Village,” I knew we would be in for a remarkable reading experience—beautiful texts that, with delicacy and sensitivity, reveal a very difficult period of her life, as well as the courage and solidarity she shows toward those who have lived through similar traumas without understanding what—or why—they were experiencing them.
And what can I say about the wonderful metaphor she created to guide us through our Villages?
These books should be read not only by those who have gone through or are going through trauma, and by those who live with and support them, but above all by professionals in the healthcare and hospital environment—such as doctors, nurses, physiotherapists, and others—so they may understand that patients are much more than obedient beings who listen, receive diagnoses, take medications, and undergo surgeries and procedures.
They are, above all, human beings who suffer, who want to understand, and who want to discuss what is happening within them and in their lives.
In this way, they will come to understand the importance of compassionate, human-centered care in the practice of their vital professions.