The Body Divine: Resources

All month long in June, our theme is BODY. Each week during our Sunday morning services we will explore how to live everyday wonder through the magnificent and magical creation that is our body. The body you have, right here and right now, is an expression of God. By loving it, learning about it, and listening to it, we come closer and closer to the Divine. 

Here is a list of resources we’ll be referencing throughout the month – we invite you to explore and share these valuable resources focused on enhancing the relationship with our Body.

Books and Articles:

• The Body is Not An Apology by Sonya Renee Taylor
• The Wisdom of Your Body: Finding Healing, Wholeness and Connection through Embodied Living by Hillary McBride, PhD
• My Body is Not a Prayer Request: Disability Justice in the Church by Amy Kenny
• Decolonizing Wellness: A QTBIPOC Centered Guide to Escape the Diet Trap, Heal your Self-Image and Achieve Body Liberation by Dalia Kinsey
• The Wild Land Within: Cultivating Wholeness through Spiritual Practice by Lisa Colon DeLay
• The Body Awareness Workbook for Trauma; Release Trauma from your Body, Find Emotional Balance, and Connect with your Inner Wisdom – by Julie Brown Yau
• Soul Gym: A Manual for Soulful Living, connecting Mind, Body and Spirit by Darrell Jones (CSL Minister)
• I Am Who I Am: Sacredly Accepting My Body Temple by Alison Hilber (SLCA Outreach Practitioner)
• Change How You See Not How You Look: Power Tools for Celebrating Your Body by Alison Hilber
• Heal Your Body by Louise Hay
• Reforming and Reframing: The New “Body Positivity” as a Social Justice Movement
• The Body Keeps The Score by Bessel van der Kolk

Organizations or Movements

• Somatic Abolitionism – Resmaa Menakem
• Integrated Well-being Institute – Georgena Eggleston (SLCA Outreach Practitioner)
• Body Justice Podcast by Allyson Ford LPCC
• Health at Every Size Movement
• Carmen Cool – Body Justice Therapist

Special Feature:

Be sure to check out the body scan meditations from the Blackfullness App!

Sermons – Check back each week for a link to the previous week’s message – or tune in LIVE on Sundays mornings on FB page or YouTube 10:15AM ET

Week 1: Welcome to the Temple by Dr. David Alexander