Sensing Ground - by Joey Remenyi (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

Your body is a compass that can direct your own path of healing.

The unusual bodily sensations you experience as a highly sensitive person are your greatest gift. In Sensing Ground, vestibular audiologist and neuroplasticity therapist Joey Remenyi shows you how to read your body's signals to better understand yourself. By learning to follow your body's clues and create intimacy with your own lived experiences, you'll rediscover who you are and develop sovereignty.

In her first book, Rock Steady, Remenyi helped thousands of readers overcome vertigo and tinnitus. In Sensing Ground, based on her highly successful program of the same name, she shows you how to radically tune inward and follow your body's guidance through all your senses. If you have a persistent physical ailment or emotional trauma asking for your attention, or if you experience unusual body sensations with no medical explanation or cure, this book is for you. Or you may simply yearn to follow a deep inner calling for sanctuary in an increasingly chaotic world.

Remenyi's deeply soulful and creative approach will help you understand your body's nuanced language so that you can attune to the world around you, stop arguing with yourself and allow your life to unfurl with a sense of internal alignment. You'll learn how to use the ancient practice of the body scan--observing sensations from head to toe--and how to anchor into feelings of safety, connection, and belonging. Symptoms and sensations are your body's way of reminding you to pause, feel, trust the mystery, regain presence, and direct loving attention inwards when life is messy and doesn't yet make sense.

If you identify as a highly sensitive person, an empath, or neurodivergent, Joey Remenyi's Sensing Ground will help you honor yourself deeply in a world that undervalues your wisdom. You'll return to true sensuality, expand your capacity for both pain and pleasure, and awaken more of your natural gifts for our world.

Review Quotes

"Sensing Ground is a soulful roadmap for coming home to yourself--shedding clutter, standing your sacred ground, and shining your light from within." --Lucinda Light, TV personality and author of Shine Your Light

"If you're someone who's constantly in motion (mentally overloaded, emotionally stretched thin, physically present but not truly home in your body), this book is your reminder to slow down and listen to the signals your wise mind and body are sending to help you re-ground." --Dr. Gretchen Gavero, psychiatrist and director of The Mental Path

"Sensing Ground is a fearless invitation to experience the richness of our inner life by following bodily sensations wherever they lead. The fruit of this work is nothing less than wholehearted transformation for us and the world." --Sandra Parker, psychologist and author of Embracing Unrest

"Joey Remenyi's ageless wisdom pours onto the pages of Sensing Ground. A beautiful book that's poetic yet practical, contemplative yet clarifying. She generously shares her wisdom and leaves enough space for you to find yourself in the pages. A gorgeous companion for anyone travelling through life longing for a deeper way." --Susan Pearse, author of Spiritually Loose

"As a therapist with over forty years' experience, I am excited to add Joey Remenyi's work to my rich experience of how to be human. The mental health profession has at last followed Dr. Bessel van der Kolk's message in The Body Keeps the Score and Remenyi takes her place in the community of somatic body-mind therapists with her unique expression of what our femininity can reveal about who we are." --Jennifer de Gandt, Directrice of Innovative Pathways and psychotherapist who introduced NLP and Clean Language in France

"In a world that seeks all the answers outside, it's time to remind us that what we are searching for is inside of us: comfort, love, wisdom, and healing. Joey Remenyi's message is clear and simple: Listen to your body. It's your best compass for self-transformation. Highly recommended reading!" --Thomas Hohensee, bestselling author of Gelassenheit beginnt im Kopf

"My entire life has been about worrying and trying to help others. Joey Remenyi has brought me back to what I always knew, and that has been life-changing. Her wisdom has saved me from myself." --Robin Wieder, Sensing Ground community member

"Joey Remenyi invites us on an experiential journey of attunement to ourselves by 'following our sensations lovingly, ' a turning within to become our unique self and contribute our unique voice to the world. Through Rock Steady and Sensing Ground, as a hypersensitive, alexithymic ADHD-autist, I've learned to stay in my body, feel safe, and thrive as me." --Jackie Neill, Rock Steady and Sensing Ground participant

"In Sensing Ground, Joey Remenyi offers an invitation, a compass that expands your view from the inside out. New vistas of deeply personal terrain, previously avoided, become beacons of light, calling you home." --Jennie Smith, Sensing Ground participant

"Sensing Ground is a must-read for anyone who experiences, anxiety, imbalance, pain, or general fear of unwanted body sensations. While reading this book, you will discover your 'inner haven' and lovingly reconnect to yourself. A wonderful resource!" --Carla Heldt, speech and language pathologist, yoga instructor, and member of Rock Steady

"Sensing Ground breathes love, connection, and warmth on every page--a rare gift for any sensitive person trying to navigate the complexities of modern life. For me it has been magical!" --Christine Maddocks, Sensing Ground participant

"I have had some incredible opportunities to focus on all eight senses. I find funerals very triggering and uncomfortable, but this one was different. I felt comfortable, light and free, and so full from this beautiful experience of exploration. This is very powerful work. And it's nowhere near as difficult as I thought it might be. It's really enjoyable." --Lizzie Mann, Sensing Ground participant

"I stopped underlining things because I would have ended up underlining the whole book. I want to tattoo many of these words on my arm." --Evin Fox, PhD, Sensing Ground participant

About the Author

Joey Remenyi has a background in psychology, neuroscience, acceptance commitment therapy (ACT), and cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), plus a master's in clinical vestibular audiology. With over twenty-five years of experience in yoga and the art of experiential neuroplasticity, she is uniquely positioned to understand people suffering with unusual bodily sensations and to offer support from a trauma sensitive and somatic perspective.

Joey is the founder and director of Seeking Balance International, and the creator of ROCK STEADY and Sensing Ground. These programs have transformed the lives of thousands of people living with persistent bodily sensations.

Joey has presented at conferences and workshops internationally as a world-leading pioneer in vertigo and tinnitus recovery. She lives on Wadawurrung Country, in Victoria, Australia, with her husband and sons.