Summary of Hillary L. McBride's The Wisdom of Your Body

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Get the Summary of Hillary L. McBride's The Wisdom of Your Body in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book.Original book introduction: 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. Embracing our embodiment can liberate us from these systems. As we come to understand the world around us and the stories we've been told, we see that our perspective of reality often limits how we see and experience ourselves, each other, and what we believe is Sacred. Instead of the body being a problem to overcome, our bodies can be the very place where we feel most alive, the seat of our spirituality and our wisdom.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Nov 23, 2021
• ISBN: 9781638157816

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Insights on Hillary L. McBride's The Wisdom of Your Body

Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 8

Insights from Chapter 9

Insights from Chapter 10

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

The author was thirteen the first time she threw up on purpose. She hid in the back of a bathroom stall to avoid getting caught by her mother.

#2

The author was raised in a family that encouraged her to focus on her mind and ignore her body’s needs, which led to her developing an eating disorder.

#3

The Western world’s relationship with the body is characterized by normative discontent, which stems from our culture’s emphasis on appearance over substance. We spend a lot of time trying to change our bodies, which leads to a lot of stress and frustration.

#4

Therapy helped the author understand that she was separate from her eating disorder, and that the disease did not define her.

#5

A friend of the author’s had a sudden realization one day while sitting in a yoga class that her idea of herself was different than how others saw her.

#6

Trying to change your mindset by thinking positive thoughts is not going to work. It is going to take actual experiences for you to change.

#7

To heal the mind-body divide, we must first understand that we are not just a brain in a jar, but a body as well.

#8

The way we see ourselves can profoundly affect the way we live our lives. When we view ourselves as a body, we are