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Prentis Hemphill is a therapist, embodiment facilitator, and author of the just-released, What it Takes to Heal: How Transforming Ourselves Can Change the World. In today’s conversation—the final in a four-part series—we explore a path to putting ourselves, and the collective, back together, and how this begins with a visioning…but a visioning born from getting back in touch with how we actually feel. I loved their book—just by reading along with Prentis’s own path to re-embodiment, I found myself finding similar sensations in my chest, back and heart. In today’s conversation, we talk about somatics, yes, but also about conflict—and what it looks like to become more adept with our emotions in hard times.
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PART 1: James Gordon, M.D., “A Toolkit for Working with Trauma”
PART 2: Peter Levine, Ph.D, “Where Trauma Lives in the Body”
PART 3: Resmaa Menakem, “Finding Fear in the Body”
Thomas Hubl: “Feeling into the Collective Presence”
Gabor Maté, M.D.: “When Stress Becomes Illness”
Galit Atlas, PhD: “Understanding Emotional Inheritance”
Thomas Hubl: “Processing Our Collective Past”
Richard Schwartz, PhD: “Recovering Every Part of Ourselves”
TRANSCRIPT:
(Edited slightly for clarity.)
ELISE LOEHNEN: So I loved your book. I really think it is excellent. And I know it's not written in this way, but I had some really powerful somatic experiences as I was reading the book. And as someone who I think, like most people, is somewhat disembodied I really want to spend a, a, a fair amount of time on the embodiment work because it's so potent. So thank you for that.