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  • The Wisdom of Your Body

  • Finding Healing, Wholeness, and Connection Through Embodied Living
  • Written by: Hillary McBride
  • Narrated by: Emily McBride
  • Length: 9 hrs and 14 mins
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (30 ratings)

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Publisher's Summary

Many of us have a complicated relationship with our body.

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. Maybe your experiences with racism, sexism, ableism, heterosexism, ageism, or sizeism have made you believe your body isn't the right kind of body. 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. 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.

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. End-of-chapter questions and practices are included.

©2021 Hillary McBride (P)2021 HarperCollins Publishers Ltd.
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Life Changing

Eloquently written with tenderness, Dr, Hillary McBride empowers us to truly live within our beautiful bodies.
We are guided throughout the book to practice new ways of communicating with our bodies with kindness and love through atunement.
Through evidence-based data and heartwarming personal experience she inspires yet again.
This is my top read of 2023. May it shift our society toward health and healing.

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Excellent read to understand your body

Hillary McBride provides a great way for understanding and accepting it bodies just as they are. She used lay terms backed with solid research.

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A beautifully written and narrated book the whole way through. I highly recommend this book.

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Soul Balm

This book is filled with so much grace and wisdom. It was touching and provocative, and I loved every minute.

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My favourite book of 2022 so far!

This book couldn’t have come at a better time for me and was a balm to my body, spirit and soul. I learned so much about what it means to be embodied and what other people who are different from me face in their bodies that I will never experience. It’s given me more compassion for myself and for others and is a great start to knowing how to love myself more holistically. The narration is perfect! She reads it as if she wrote it.

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A wonderful invitation to living more wholeness

What a beautiful invitation into a more embodied living! Hillary does a wonderful job of explaining all the different area that contribute to our embodied living and provides not only great information and knowledge , but practices at the end of every chapter. This is such a needed book for our world! Thank you Hillary for writing it!

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Some of my friends love this book so take my review with a grain of salt

A bit generic/ I was hoping for more on the power and sexuality dynamics/ unpacking. Most information was not new.

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