Practices for Embodied Living

Experiencing the Wisdom of Your Body

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

AvHillary L.,PhD McBride,PhD McBride, Hillary L.,Hillary L McBride

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Come Home to Your BodyMany of us inherit a broken understanding of the body. Hillary L. McBride offers a more compassionate, healthy, and holistic perspective on embodied life.Practices for Embodied Living is an experiential guide for 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, improve self esteem, and more fully inhabit themselves.Includes:● writing prompts● activities and exercises● questions for reflection● leader's guide for small groupsTopics include disembodiment, stress and trauma, sexuality, body image, pain and illness, oppression, and more. Each topic in this body image workbook includes various exercises to help readers restore the mind-body connection.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2024-03-12
Mått152 x 229 x 13 mm
Vikt303 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor160
FörlagBaker Publishing Group
ISBN9781587436246

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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.

ContentsAn Invitation to Be Here Now1. Fully Alive: Exploring Embodiment2. How We Become Disembodied: Lies about Our Bodies, and How to Find Our Way Home3. The Body Overwhelmed: Healing the Body from Stress and Trauma4. Appearance and Image: How We See Our Body from the Outside5. Feeling Feelings: Getting to Know the Emotional Body6. You Are Not Broken: A New Perspective on Pain, Illness, and Injury7. The Body and Oppression: When Bodies Are Political8. Pleasure and Enjoyment: The Sensual and Sexual Body9. Holy Flesh: Reconciling the Spirit and Body DivideConclusion: Practices to Return to OurselvesAppendix: A Leader's Guide