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

by Hillary L. McBride

For example, if the body is sacred, do you treat your body as such? This could mean being gentler, being more nourishing, or choosing to listen to your sensory cues instead of ignoring them, understanding we are not just form or function but being itself. Historically, labeling the body as the dwelling of the Divine has been harmful for many people’s bodies, resulting in bodily control, food restriction, and all-or-nothing practices of sexual purity. Instead of using this paradigm to move into more rigidity and guilt, we can remember that the sacred is already here just as we are, in us from the get-go, which invites us to know that we do not have to change to be loved or valuable. And sometimes in knowing that, we are inspired to treat others’ bodies and our own from a place of love, care, and connection.