The Wisdom of Your Body, Hillary L. McBride, PhD
The Wisdom of Your Body, Hillary L. McBride, PhD
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The Wisdom of Your Body
Finding Healing, Wholeness, and Connection through Embodied Living

Author: Hillary L. McBride, PhD

Narrator: Emily Ellet

Unabridged: 9 hr 14 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/12/2021

Synopsis

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.

About Hillary L. McBride, PhD

Hillary L. McBride, PhD, 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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by K.J. on November 07, 2022

The Wisdom of Your Body is relentlessly kind. Hillary McBride has given us a rich gift, both in offering some of her own story here and in offering insights from research that become practical and palpable. The author’s skill as as clinician carried the book into my heart with compassion, and her ar......more

Goodreads review by Elizabeth on October 13, 2021

Read my full review here: [URL not allowed] For those who are especially curious on restoring their relationship to their body after purity culture, I believe this book will be an incredible tool in your healing journey. Her chapter Pleasure and Enjoyment: The Sexual and Sensua......more

Goodreads review by Natalie on December 31, 2021

Finished on New Years Eve, and the best book I read in all of 2021… possibly ever. Take your time with this one. It asks you (sometimes overtly and sometimes involuntarily) to stop and take time to really sit with what you are reading. So much came up for me throughout this read, and it invited me i......more

Goodreads review by Hannah on January 15, 2022

This book started off very rocky. The first three chapters discouraged me almost to the point of not continuing, because they mainly consisted of the scattered ramblings and subjective opinions of the author. I’m glad I continued, however, because the second half of the book proved to be far more ro......more

Goodreads review by Bailey Cowen on January 30, 2024

Yes it took me three months to read this book, healing happens in weird and slow ways and we can only hold what we can hold. That being said, I’d recommend this book to anyone, shout it from the rooftops, read this book. Our bodies are good. They are strong, and gentle, and wise, and kind. After bei......more

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