Many of us have a complicated relationship with our body.
Maybe you've been made to feel ashamed of your body or like it isn't good enough. Maybe your body is riddled with stress, pain, or the effects of trauma. Maybe your experiences with racism, sexism, ableism, heterosexism, ageism, or sizeism have made you believe your body isn't the right kind of body.
Whatever the reason, many of us don't feel at home in our bodies. But being disconnected from ourselves as bodies means being disconnected from truly living and from the interconnection that weaves us all together.
In The Wisdom of Your Body, Hillary L. McBride invites us to reclaim the wisdom of the body and to experience the wholeness that has been there all along, weaving together
● illuminating research
● practices to deepen your relationship with your bodily self
● end-of-chapter prompts and questions
● real stories from her work as a therapist
● personal narratives of healing from a life-threatening eating disorder, a near-fatal car accident, and chronic pain
Come home to your body and embrace a more compassionate, healthy, and holistic perspective on embodied life.
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Hillary L. McBride (PhD, University of British Columbia) is a licensed therapist, an award-winning researcher, and a sought-after speaker who specializes in embodiment. She cohosts The Liturgists podcast (averages 4 million downloads per year), hosts the Other People's Problems podcast, and has appeared on other popular podcasts. McBride's clinical and academic work has been recognized by the American Psychological Association and the Canadian Psychological Association. She is an adjunct professor in the department of counseling psychology at the University of British Columbia and has a private counseling practice in Vancouver. McBride is the author of Mothers, Daughters, and Body Image and coeditor of Embodiment and Eating Disorders. Visit her website at www.hillarylmcbride.com.
2022 Word Guild Award, Culture and Life Stories categories
Globe and Mail Bestseller List, November 2021 (Self-Improvement)
Coming Home to Your Body
Clinical psychologist and award-winning researcher Hillary L. McBride explores the ways many of us inherit a broken and unhealthy understanding of the body and offers a more compassionate, healthy, and holistic perspective on embodied life.
"The Wisdom of Your Body is the exact message I wish someone had given me thirty years ago. This book will help set people free."
--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
"A book offering profound healing and insight--the rare tome that can change not only individual lives but also our world."
--Mike McHargue, host of The Cozy Robot Show; author of You're a Miracle (and a Pain in the Ass)
"This book is an invitation to look deeper and to live a fully connected and embodied life."
--Morgan Harper Nichols, author of All Along You Were Blooming
"This might be the revolution for which we've all been secretly longing. The Wisdom of Your Body is a book I will be recommending to everyone."
--Sarah Bessey, author of Jesus Feminist, editor of the New York Times bestseller A Rhythm of Prayer
"It is the most important work of my adulthood to learn that I am my body. This book is the indispensable tool I've been looking for."
--Jedidiah Jenkins, New York Times bestselling author of Like Streams to the Ocean and To Shake the Sleeping Self
"Soulful. Joyful. McBride is the gentle and powerful voice that calls us back home to ourselves."
--Kate Bowler, Duke Divinity School; author of Everything Happens for a Reason
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