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Sacred Self-Care: Daily Practices for Nurturing Our Whole Selves

By Chanequa Walker-Barne.

Soft cover 224pp.
ISBN 9780063287136.
HarperOne (2023).

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Taking care of ourselves is essential, and lately, we’ve started to pay more attention to the ways our physical bodies need and deserve nourishment. But we are not just bodies, we sacred beings, and our souls need just as much care and attention to be healthy.

As a clinical psychologist, pastor, and activist, Dr. Chanequa Walker-Barnes has studied and worked with clients, clergy, seminary faculty, faith-based activists, and others to encourage them to think of self-care as both a divine right and a sacred obligation. She has developed a seven-week guide gathering activities, habits, disciplines, and practices that promote spiritual, physical, emotional, mental, and relational wholeness.

This seven-week guide to help you shift your behaviours and create lifelong habits to care for your whole self - mind, body, and soul.

Each day includes a story alongside short and simple prompts and scripture passages that help us shift behaviours in the short term and create lifelong habits. Each week walks readers through the following areas:

• Mastering the Self-Care Fundamentals
• Practicing Self-Compassion
• Setting Healthy Boundaries
• Caring for Our Emotional Selves
• Caring for Our Minds
• Practicing Self-Care as a Way of Life

Also included is an inventory for identifying areas you may need to focus on, and a “Rule of Life” guide to help you direct your self-care practice and maintain it throughout the year. Inspiring and practical, ruminative, and actionable, Sacred Self-Care invites us on a journey to craft a sustainable self-care practice to care for our whole selves.