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Practices for Embodied Living

  • Christian Living
  • World Religions
  • Counseling, Grief & Mental Health
  • Publisher: Brazos Press (Baker Publishing Group)
  • Published: 2024

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Publisher's Description

Come Home to Your BodyMany 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 groupsTopics 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.


Endorsements (5)

“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

“Hillary McBride has changed my life through her combination of powerful intelligence and extraordinary tenderness.”

Mari Andrew

“McBride’s words are a gift to the world.”

Ruthie Lindsey

“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

“McBride’s insights are a gift.”

Kaitlin Curtice

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