McBride, H: Practices for Embodied Living

This experiential guide--centered on prompts, activities, and opportunities for reflection--helps us resist cultural myths about ideal bodies, get in touch with the goodness of our bodies, and more fully inhabit ourselves.

Topics include disembodiment, stress and trauma, sexuality, body image, pain and illness, oppression, and more. Each topic includes various exercises for restoring the mind-body connection.

Praise for Hillary McBride

"No single leader has impacted my concept of healthy embodiment more than Hillary McBride. Her work fundamentally changed the way I talk about, think about, treat, and cherish my own body. We will be talking about McBride's work for decades."
--Jen Hatmaker, New York Times bestselling author of Fierce, Free, and Full of Fire and Of Mess and Moxie; host of the For the Love podcast

"Hillary McBride is the gentle and powerful voice that calls us back home to ourselves."
--Kate Bowler, Duke Divinity School; author of No Cure for Being Human

"I am grateful for Dr. Hillary McBride, who has the ability to bring together both the spirit and the body through research and her personal experience to show us how our body can also be our teacher."
--Richard Rohr, OFM, Center for Action and Contemplation

"McBride is not only informative but encouraging and vulnerable."
--Arielle Estoria, poet, author, and artist