The Wisdom of Your Body: Finding Healing, Wholeness, and Connection through Embodied Living

by Hillary L. McBride

For anyone who was ever told, shown, or made to believe that your body is anything other than sacred and wise

there is something sacred right here, in this moment, always present and always available. That connection to our bodily selves is available to us in every moment.

Change does not happen through trying to trick ourselves out of a story we have been groomed to rehearse through our developing years. Rather, transformation happens from the ground up: when we have a new experience of ourselves and hold our attention on it long enough for it to sink in.

So embodiment is a coming home, a remembering of our wholeness, and a reunion with the fullness of ourselves.

exploring whatever you find with gentleness.

in a culture that has been oriented toward consumerism, profit, and achievement, it is a form of resistance to listen, rest, and be present.

When what we had oriented our life around slips from our grasp, we have the choice to either hold on tighter or open our hands and let go.