Pragmatic, prophetic, and liberating. Each chapter offers practical and powerful advice to enhance our spiritual and mental health. A book I will highlight, underline and write notes in the margin to remember the wisdom between the pages for years to come.” — Dr. Otis Moss III, senior pastor and author of Dancing in the Darkness
"Walker-Barnes beautifully reveals her own self-care journey while expertly leading us toward building a judgment-free approach of our own; one driven by self-compassion and vulnerability. What a wonderful blueprint for facilitating not just self-care but healing!" — Tracey Michae’l Lewis-Giggetts, Author of Black Joy: Stories of Resistance, Resilience, and Restoration
"With sage wisdom and compassion, Walker-Barnes leads us into a sacred season of divine awareness, self empathy, and holy practice. Engaging this book is a resurrection; not only will it change the way you see, respect, and care for yourself, it will help you find your path toward living wholly." — Matthew Paul Turner, #1 New York Times bestselling author of What Is God Like?
"This book is a treasure. With tender patience and gorgeous grace, Chanequa Walker-Barnes invites us into a holistic vision of embodied self-care rooted in God's abundant love. Bursting with hospitable, practical wisdom, Sacred Self-Care helps us not only to honor our whole selves but also to extend love to and pursue justice for others. In a world that has cheapened self-care, she provides a valuable, faithful, and much-needed antidote." — Jeff Chu, author of Does Jesus Really Love Me?
“Dr. Walker-Barnes has given us such a beautiful and practical path-way; each of these practices point us toward love, compassion, and resurrection for the long haul.” — Sarah Bessey, Editor of New York Times Bestseller A Rhythm of Prayer and author of Jesus Feminist
"As informed and informative as it is inspired and inspiring, Sacred Self-Care is especially timely in this current era of civil, political, economic, spiritual, and secular unrest." — Midwest Review of Books
"Walker-Barnes seems to be part of a growing movement that claims self-care as a human right, and it seems like many of those leading the way are Black women…. What Walker-Barnes does so well is bring the spiritual and the psychological together with her own experiences… A holistic approach to self-care." — The Presbyterian Outlook