Hello, John!

One of my favorite quotes about body acceptance goes something like: "The best tip for getting a beach body is: 1) Take your body to the beach; 2) Now you have a beach body."

Summertime can be tough for those of us who struggle with body image. That's why I want to highlight a recent release that offers another way of thinking about the body—and a way to practice body acceptance through journaling.

Shannon K. Evans takes the concept of body acceptance beyond the physical and mental to the spiritual. In Luminous: A 30-Day Journal for Accepting Your Body, Honoring Your Soul, and Finding Your Joy, Shannon offers reflections and thoughtful journaling prompts aimed at shifting negative body images into reverence for God's gift of the body.

The question this journal seeks to give you the tools to answer is: "What if your body could be a good and true part of your spiritual life?"

"There are not two halves of you: soul versus body. You are one whole, made in the image of a God who is integrated and indivisible. Your relationship to your body cannot be separated from the health of your soul, for the two are intertwined to make up all that it means to be you. Your flesh and bones are sacred; they connect you to your soul’s experience of the divine."
—from Luminous: A 30-Day Journal for Accepting Your Body, Honoring Your Soul, and Finding Your Joy

Luminous: A 30-Day Journal for Accepting Your Body, Honoring Your Soul, and Finding Your Joy is now available to order wherever books are sold, including from Franciscan Media’s online bookstore (the most direct way for your purchase to support our mission). 

Peace and all good!

Kelly Sundberg

Director, Product Marketing