Practices for Embodied Living - Softcover

Hillary L. McBride PhD

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1587436248 ISBN 13: 9781587436246

Publisher: Brazos Press, 2024

Synopsis

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, 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.

About this title

About the Author

Hillary L. McBride (PhD, University of British Columbia) is a registered psychologist and an award-winning researcher who has hosted the Other People's Problems and Holy/Hurt podcasts. She has a private practice in Victoria, British Columbia, and is a sought-after speaker and retreat leader. McBride is the author of The Wisdom of Your Body, Practices for Embodied Living, and Mothers, Daughters, and Body Image. Her work has been recognized by the American Psychological Association and the Canadian Psychological Association. Learn more at www.hillarylmcbride.com.

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

Edition details

• Publisher: Brazos Press
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1587436248
• ISBN 13: 9781587436246
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160