In The Wisdom of Your Body, clinical psychologist and award-winning researcher Hillary McBride explored the ways many of us inherit a broken understanding of the body and offered a more compassionate, healthy, and holistic perspective on embodied life. In this follow-up book, McBride takes the principles of The Wisdom of Your Body and puts them into action in practical, tangible ways.
Practices for Embodied Living offers an experiential guide--centered on prompts, activities, and opportunities for reflection--to support 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.
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.
By:
Hillary L.PhD McBride
Imprint: Brazos Press, Div of Baker Publishing Group
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions:
Height: 229mm,
Width: 152mm,
Weight: 315g
ISBN: 9781587436246
ISBN 10: 1587436248
Pages: 160
Publication Date: 12 March 2024
Audience:
General/trade
,
ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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
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.
