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The Wisdom of Your Body: Finding Healing, Wholeness, and Connection through Embodied Living
Written by Hillary L. McBride, PhD
Narrated by Emily Ellet
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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 you think of your body as an accessory to what you believe you really are-your mind. 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.
Psychologist and award-winning researcher Hillary McBride explores the broken and unhealthy ideas we have inherited about our body. Embodiment is the way we are in the world, and our embodiment is heavily influenced by who we have been allowed to be. McBride shows that many of us feel disembodied due to colonization, racism, sexism, and patriarchy-destructive systems that rank certain bodies as less valuable, beautiful, or human than others.
The Wisdom of Your Body offers a compassionate, healthy, and holistic perspective on embodied living. Weaving together illuminating research, stories from her work as a therapist, and deeply personal narratives of healing from a life-threatening eating disorder, a near-fatal car accident, and chronic pain, McBride invites us to reclaim the wisdom of the body and to experience the wholeness that has been there all along.
Psychologist and award-winning researcher Hillary McBride explores the broken and unhealthy ideas we have inherited about our body. Embodiment is the way we are in the world, and our embodiment is heavily influenced by who we have been allowed to be. McBride shows that many of us feel disembodied due to colonization, racism, sexism, and patriarchy-destructive systems that rank certain bodies as less valuable, beautiful, or human than others.
The Wisdom of Your Body offers a compassionate, healthy, and holistic perspective on embodied living. Weaving together illuminating research, stories from her work as a therapist, and deeply personal narratives of healing from a life-threatening eating disorder, a near-fatal car accident, and chronic pain, McBride invites us to reclaim the wisdom of the body and to experience the wholeness that has been there all along.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5As someone who struggled a great part of her life with her relationship to her body and is now trying to reconcile herself to it, this book is a great companion on this journey.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Wow. So much to process and think about. It was so good and I have a lot of work to do, but it feels fulfilling.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Most profound book. I loved every word. I will definitely read this book again.
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