Sacred Self-Care

Daily Practices for Nurturing Our Whole Selves

By: Chanequa Walker-Barnes

Narrated by: Deanna Anthony

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 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.

Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.

Life and Culture-Shifting Resource that is accessible!

This book is very practical and takes the reader (listener) step-by-step in improving your life by (re) focusing on simple, daily, spiritually-integrated practices to improve your self care. The author's expertise and experience show through making this the ideal resource for individuals, couples, groups and leadership teams. She has outdone herself and the reader who presents is clear, consistent and easy to listen to. I highly recommend and have already used this in my own life and helped others receive the change that they have needed.

Practical Explanations, Examples, and Techniques

While I didn’t utilize this book in a weekly fashion, but instead listened to it within a week, I still found it to be so rewarding. Once I started listening, I couldn’t stop and took several notes. As a Christian, woman and person of color, I found this book to be authentic and refreshing. I’m already shifting my perspective around self-care as a result. Highly recommend.

Powerful & effective

This is not an overwhelming text. Too often we feel self-care cannot be added to our busy lives. This book makes sacred self-care accessible.

Well written, truly self help on Self Care

Nurturing but very clear on how and why to take care of yourself- solidly backed by scripture. Very well organized.

Everything in the book.

I love all the information in the book about self care. This book will help me take a deeper look about myself.