Sacred Self-Care: Daily Practices for Nurturing Our Whole Selves
Taking care of ourselves is essential. But while many of us are focusing on our physical, emotional, and mental well-being, we’re overlooking an aspect of ourselves that needs nourishing as well—our souls. This 49-day interactive devotional from clinical psychologist and theologian Dr. Chanequa Walker-Barnes shows how to begin caring for your spiritual self in only forty-nine days. Each day includes short, accessible, and practical prompts, practices, scripture passages, hymns, and prayers that help you nurture your spirit and offer insight and guidance on: practicing self-compassion, setting boundaries, accessing pleasure and joy, identifying priorities and establishing routines that reflect your values, understanding why self-care is subversive and reparative in social justice, and more. Inspiring and practical, ruminative and actionable, Sacred Self-Care teaches you how to craft a sustainable self-care practice to care for yourself as the beautiful and wonderful creation of God that you are.
I Bring the Voices of My People: A Womanist Vision for Racial Reconciliation
Chanequa Walker-Barnes offers a compelling argument that the Christian racial reconciliation movement is incapable of responding to modern-day racism. She argues that highlighting the voices of women of color is critical to developing any genuine efforts toward reconciliation. Drawing upon intersectionality theory and critical race studies, she demonstrates how living at the intersection of racism and sexism exposes women of color to unique experiences of gendered racism that are not about relationships, but rather are about systems of power and inequity.
Too Heavy a Yoke: Black Women and the Burden of Strength
Black women are strong. At least that's what everyone says and how they are constantly depicted. But what, exactly, does this strength entail? And what price do Black women pay for it? In this book, the author, a psychologist and pastoral theologian, examines the burdensome yoke that the ideology of the Strong Black Woman places upon African American women.