HER RITES will meet you wherever you are right now.
This book is for the exhausted and empowered, the befriended and the exiled, women who long to be known, seen, and safe, as well as those who have been betrayed, misunderstood, and left longing. This book is for spiritual women who love the Creator because they know the creativity within themselves. The salvific journey will accompany you whether you have walked away from the church, led from a pulpit, or not heard God’s voice in a very long time. This book is safe for the seeking, inspiring for the old soul, and will offer you a friend in Christy along the way.
Dr. Christy Angelle-Vidrine Bauman has worked for over 18 years in her counseling practice with women in spiritual and sexual health; she no longer counsels individual clients. As she is leaving private practice as a therapist, Her Rites is the book she wrote to offer her therapy modality to every woman. Pick up this book if you want to step into her office for therapy. Her Rites is over a year of therapeutic rites of passage that allow each woman to navigate her own story. Take this journey, beginning with your birthright and ending with your legacy.
Rite of Birth
Rite of Initiation
Rite of Exile
Rite of Creating
Rite of Intuition
Rite of Legacy
The rites of passage are accompanied by specific artwork created by Kinsey Aleski or @kinsey.aleski, inviting the reader to deeper curiosity about her own experience. Christy also teamed up with Grammy-award-winning songwriter Sarah Siskind or @SarahSiskind to create a Her Rites album, which offers a meditative song for the reader to use with any bodywork that might accompany her rite of passage.
A salvific, emotional, and life-changing book.
Christy Bauman
Author. Teacher. Psychotherapist.
Christy is an author, teacher and psychotherapist. A mother of 4, fierce dreamer and passionate about advocating for women.
Christy received her Bachelors degree in Communication at Texas A&M in 2002 and then her Masters in Counseling at Reformed Theological Seminary in 2007. She published the book Unearth in 2008, and A Brave Lament in 2018. She is certified in Medical Family Therapy and Trauma and Abuse. She is currently earning her doctorate at Seattle Pacific University and is researching Shame and Sexuality in Women.
Knowing God Through the Body of a Woman
11-part video course by Dr. Christy Bauman
“Theology of the Womb Video Course is filled with a wealth of wisdom for women. Christy offers her journey with her own body in a powerful invitation for us to find the presence of God in our own bodies. This course will nurture you, challenge you, and teach you to listen for the sacred inside your own soul.”
Ever wish a badass woman would write unapologetically about the image of God in breasts, uteruses, periods, and menopause? Here ya go, Christmas came early. Need holy ground to stand on as you process infant loss? This is a safe, sacred blanket to wrap yourself in. Trying to not just make peace with this body you’re in, but be freed to embrace the full power of sacred womanhood in this very body? Welcome to your next read.Shannon K Evans, Author of Rewilding Motherhood @shannonkevans
A beautiful and inspiring exploration of the dignity of womanhood.Timothy Courtois, Therapist
I finished this book a few weeks ago. And it has sung over me since then. I can’t get it out of my head. This is an incredibly beautiful, emotional, and heartfelt book for any woman who longs to gain understanding, and transparency about the maternal God.Kayla Oye, Author of Aged-Rage: Poems of Black Womanhood
Reading Christy's book allowed me to realize the holy journey my body and I have been on! How I wish my mother could have given this book to me to read when I went off to college in 1970. I wish I would have had Christy's knowledge while raising my daughters and my son. Her telling of her journey makes learning easy. Our gender has been up against patriarchy since the beginning of time...we all need this book.Becky Allender, Author & Facilitator at The Allender Center for Trauma and Abuse
For guidance and love and light, I cannot recommend this book enough.Jennifer Magnano Writer and Doula @thebarefootpreacher