Practices for Embodied Living: Experiencing the Wisdom of Your Body
Ebook
Come Home to Your Body
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, 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 includes various exercises to help readers restore the mind-body connection.
From the Back Cover
This experiential guide--centered on prompts, activities, and opportunities for reflection--helps us resist cultural myths about ideal bodies, get in touch with the goodness of our bodies, and more fully inhabit ourselves.
Topics include disembodiment, stress and trauma, sexuality, body image, pain and illness, oppression, and more. Each topic includes various exercises for restoring the mind-body connection.
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
Contents
An Invitation to Be Here Now
1. Fully Alive: Exploring Embodiment
2. How We Become Disembodied: Lies about Our Bodies, and How to Find Our Way Home
3. The Body Overwhelmed: Healing the Body from Stress and Trauma
4. Appearance and Image: How We See Our Body from the Outside
5. Feeling Feelings: Getting to Know the Emotional Body
6. You Are Not Broken: A New Perspective on Pain, Illness, and Injury
7. The Body and Oppression: When Bodies Are Political
8. Pleasure and Enjoyment: The Sensual and Sexual Body
9. Holy Flesh: Reconciling the Spirit and Body Divide
Conclusion: Practices to Return to Ourselves
Appendix: A Leader's Guide
- Title: Practices for Embodied Living: Experiencing the Wisdom of Your Body
- Author: Hillary McBride
- Publisher: Brazos Press
- Print Publication Date: 2024
- Logos Release Date: 2023
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781493445042, 9781587436246, 1587436248, 1493445049
- Resource ID: LLS:9781493445042
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-10-29T14:48:00Z
Hillary L. McBride (PhD, University of British Columbia) is a registered psychologist, an award-winning researcher, and the host of the Other People's Problems podcast. She has a private practice in Victoria, British Columbia, and is a sought-after speaker and retreat leader who specializes in embodiment. McBride's work has been recognized by the American Psychological Association and the Canadian Psychological Association. She is the author of The Wisdom of Your Body and Mothers, Daughters, and Body Image, and coeditor of Embodiment and Eating Disorders. Learn more at www.hillarylmcbride.com.