Christina كريستينا (Taylor's Version)’s Reviews > The Wisdom of Your Body: Finding Healing, Wholeness, and Connection through Embodied Living > Status Update

“We need to reclaim every shattered fragment of our body to experience wholeness. Healing happens as we invite our bodies back into the narratives of our lives.

“Being a body, seeing the self as inextricable from our physicality and our physicality as the expression of our personhood, invites us into wholeness. But when the self has been shattered and fragmented —as it has been for many of us — collecting the fragments, believing they belong to us and naming them as good, is politically rebellious, spiritually powerful, and biomedically healing practice.”

“Embodiment is a kind of re-member oh of what we really are, because what we picked up along the way was disembodiment. But disembodiment is not how we come into the world. It can be unlearned, while embodiment, our birthright, can be remembered. So embodiment is coming home, a remembering of our wholeness, and a reunion with the fullness of ourselves.”

“Being in our body gives us access to all the wisdom that our bodies hold. This allows us to know ourselves more fully, experiencing ourselves as good and sacred, and hold safety within ourselves no matter what happens around us. Embodiment is a way to heal the mind-body divide we experience within ourselves and, more systemically, within Western cultures.”

“… what body hatred costs us — individually and collectively — is fullness of life. We lose out on the goodness that comes through our body. And if we are our body, we miss out on experiencing our own goodness and the presence and wisdom that comes from deep connection to ourselves. We also lose out on connection with others…”

“We can’t avoid the painful things we experience though our bodies without sacrificing the good, the beautiful, the rich.”

“… thoughtful engagement with bodily sensation is essential for wholeness and healing.”

“… remembering and reuniting with our bodily selves is a radical act to undo our need to earn our worth, helping us wake up to the fact that there is something sacred right here, in this moment, always present and always available.”

“When I think about being human, the fragile, precious, and mysterious journey we each take from birth to death, I think about the body. The body is the place where all of this happens.”