Sacred Self-Care: Daily Practices for Nurturing Our Whole SelvesChanequa Walker-BarnesLabel: CollinsDescription: A seven-week guide to help you shift your behaviors and create lifelong habits to care for your whole self— mind body and soul. In a world that has cheapened self-care Chanequa Walker-Barnes provides a valuable faithful and much-needed antidote. —Jeff Chu author of Does Jesus Really Love Me 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.Each day includes a story alongside short and simple prompts and scripture passages that help us shift behaviors in the short term and create lifelong habits. Each week walks readers through the following areas:Mastering the Self-Care FundamentalsPracticing Self-CompassionSetting Healthy BoundariesCaring for Our Emotional SelvesCaring for Our MindsPracticing Self-Care as a Way of LifeAlso 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.Reader's Best Award for The Englewood Review of Books Honorable Mention
