
Practices for Embodied Living
Experiencing the Wisdom of Your Body
by Hillary L. McBride PhD
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Pub Date Jan 16 2024 | Archive Date Feb 02 2024
Baker Academic & Brazos Press | Brazos Press
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Description
Many of us inherit a broken understanding of the body. Hillary L. McBride offers a more compassionate, healthy, and holistic perspective on embodied life.
Practices for Embodied Living is an experiential guide for readers who want to practice embodiment. This approachable, visually stimulating book helps individuals and groups resist cultural myths about ideal bodies, get in touch with the goodness of their bodies, improve self esteem, and more fully inhabit themselves.
Includes:
● writing prompts
● activities and exercises
● questions for reflection
● leader's guide for small groups
Topics include disembodiment, stress and trauma, sexuality, body image, pain and illness, oppression, and more. Each topic in this body image workbook includes various exercises to help readers restore the mind-body connection.
Advance Praise
Praise for Hillary McBride
“No single leader has impacted my concept of healthy embodiment more than Hillary McBride. Her work fundamentally changed the way I talk about, think about, treat, and cherish my own body. We will be talking about McBride’s work for decades.”—Jen Hatmaker, New York Times bestselling author of Fierce, Free, and Full of Fire and Of Mess and Moxie; host of the For the Love podcast
“Hillary McBride is the gentle and powerful voice that calls us back home to ourselves.”—Kate Bowler, Duke Divinity School; author of No Cure for Being Human
“I am grateful for Dr. Hillary McBride, who has the ability to bring together both the spirit and the body through research and her personal experience to show us how our body can also be our teacher.”—Richard Rohr, OFM, Center for Action and Contemplation
“McBride is not only informative but encouraging and vulnerable.”—Arielle Estoria, poet, author, and artist
“McBride’s insights are a gift.”—Kaitlin Curtice, author of Living Resistance
“Hillary is such a worthy guide, the kind you can trust in the most dangerous wildernesses of your body and soul and mind.”—Sarah Bessey, author of Jesus Feminist, editor of the New York Times bestseller A Rhythm of Prayer
“Hillary McBride has this magic in her personal life and clinical work that disarms you. She gives you insights, keys, and practices to fall in love with yourself.”—Lisa Gungor, musician, author, and co-conspirator of Sacred Feminine
“Hillary McBride has changed my life through her combination of powerful intelligence and extraordinary tenderness.”—Mari Andrew, author of My Inner Sky
“McBride’s words are a gift to the world.”—Ruthie Lindsey, speaker and author of There I Am
Available Editions
EDITION | Other Format |
ISBN | 9781587436246 |
PRICE | $19.99 (USD) |
PAGES | 160 |
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