How to Treat Your Body Like a Sacred Text

Emily Hedrick

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Tehom Center Publishing
15 January 2025

Protestantism & Protestant Churches; Christian spirituality & religious experience

What if your body has a gospel you've been ignoring?

Mine did. I spent 10 years trying to silence it with codependent ministry and religious education. This book is about what I learned when I finally started listening.

How to Treat Your Body Like a Sacred Text takes you through my personal journey from a theologically toxic childhood to pastoral burnout to recovery through listening to my body. Blending trauma theory with progressive religious insights, I offer practical skills for healing from toxic religion. Learn to listen to your body and transform your understanding of religion and trauma.

By: Emily Hedrick
Imprint: Tehom Center Publishing
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 10mm
Weight: 263g
ISBN: 9798895320105
Pages: 190
Publication Date: 15 January 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Emily Hedrick, M.Div, is a former Mennonite pastor turned resilience coach specializing in religious trauma and compassion fatigue. Her first book, True Confessions of a God Killer: a Postmodern Pilgrim's Progress, explores her initial experiences with religious trauma through allegory. In How to Treat Your Body Like a Sacred Text, she combines her professional education and training to offer understanding and practical tools to those navigating the aftereffects of toxic religion and finding a path to well-being.

Reviews for How to Treat Your Body Like a Sacred Text

Emily bravely shares her compelling experience with religious trauma - inviting those who have been harmed to see themselves not as broken but as survivalists of strength - and goes on to provide tangible steps towards recovery. For all those who have experienced religious trauma and are seeking understanding, this book is foundational to recovery. -- Dr. Aemina Razzano Hedrick's expositions on shame and its healing are, by far, the best I have ever read - worth reading if only for this. While the book's focus is towards helping the lay reader understand and heal the negative effects of entrapment inside of well-intended but toxic religion, it is also an essential text for helpers to deepen their understanding of and resolution capacity for relational trauma with their clients. --J. Eric Gentry, PhD, FAAETS President Forward-Facing Institute How To Treat Your Body Like A Sacred Text interweaves gripping memoir, digestible neuroscience and an entirely new way of understanding one's body. For the exvangelical, this read will challenge existing paradigms, normalize struggles and offer hope through new lenses. For the Christian, it can provide a foundation of compassion and understanding when interacting with individuals recovering from harmful religious experiences. -- Jenny Brackman, Vice President Forward-Facing Institute