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Sensual Faith

The Art of Coming Home to Your Body

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Sensual Faith

By: Lyvonne Briggs, Briana Boyd PhD - foreword
Narrated by: Lyvonne Briggs, Briana Boyd PhD - foreword
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An invitation for women to discover a healthier approach to spirituality and sexuality that centers pleasure rather than shame, from body-and sex-positive preacher and author Lyvonne Briggs

"Home is not an address. Home is where you feel safe. And your body is aching to be your home."—Lyvonne Briggs

How you view your body and your sexuality is informed and strengthened by spiritual practices, but how many of us can say that religion has drawn us closer to our bodies? That's because worship spaces that are intended to be spiritual safe houses have not historically been welcoming to our bodies, forcing us to leave our flesh at the door. This ideological amputation is at best a disservice and at worst a sin. The remedy? Radical self-hospitality.

In Sensual Faith, Lyvonne Briggs charts a path for us to practice spiritual wellness that aligns and harmonizes our bodies with pleasure and sexuality. By centering the rich traditions of ancient West African spirituality, Sensual Faith offers a radically inclusive model of companioning one’s self. Filled with wellness rituals, journal prompts, affirmations, and practices, Sensual Faith shows us how to celebrate our bodies as our very homes.

"Pleasure is your birthright," writes Briggs, so whether it's accepting your flesh, nurturing your intuition, learning the language of consent, or sumptuous self-care, let radical self-hospitality guide you to healthy sexuality.

©2023 Lyvonne Briggs (P)2023 Random House Audio
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“Lyvonne Briggs is fearless, fabulous, and unflinchingly talking taboo. Sensual Faith is a groundbreaking work of spiritual decolonization and a powerful reclamation of the body.” —Linda Kay Klein, author of Pure: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Shamed a Generation of Young Women and How I Broke Free

Liberatory Theology • Transparent Storytelling • Relatable Experiences • Healing Wisdom • Powerful Vulnerability
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Me begin a traditional christian this book has lots of key points,I really enjoyed this book.

outstanding book

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I loved everything about this audible so much so that I also purchased the hardcover! Great narration and Lyvonne Briggs definitely deserves all her flowers NOW! Will be gifting a copy to my close friends as well.

Great read overall!

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I feel so liberated after this. I have been on a journey of healing and renewal and this has been what I needed to help me move along.

Liberated

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This is a book for everyone but especially for Black femmes. Truly sacred text that we have been waiting for. It’s a blessing to have access to these words. Definitely a book that you will have to return to over and over, receiving new insight each and every time.

Medicine

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As a sex researcher and psychologist, this book is one of the first to offer a sex positive framework for and by a Black woman. I love the relatable diction and stories. Even though I wasn't raised in the church, this is an essential intervention for women who did.

Loved It

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Girl!! This book is medicine for the Black church girl's soul. Thank you for your offering Lyvonne!

Girl!!!!

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Lyvonne Briggs is now a revered, older sister in my head. Not only did this book affirm the liberatory theology I’ve developed in my twenties, it gave me new language to love God, myself, and others fully. Black women of faith, you need this book. Be free and full, because “that is your birthright” (paraphrasing a phrase she repeats in the book). Briggs is transparent, relatable, thoughtful, fierce, and yet still gentle with her exhortations. Do not sleep on this new gem in this womanist theological canon.

An On Time Word

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This book allowed the girl in me to be heard and freed! Thank you for your obedience in writing this story and most importantly openly sharing it!

Confessing

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Great for people at any level of the journey and ex churched. A great time and made with love! ❤❤❤

If you ready to do the work get into it

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Loved the authors energy and voice. Her story speaks for so many Caribbean American experiences growing up on the East coast when it comes to men, women and sexuality.

Great mix of pertinent topics with humor

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