144 - Embodiment, Healing, & Working With Our Bodies (feat. Dr. Hillary McBride)

To kick off the second half of Season 6, we talk with Dr. Hillary McBride! Hillary is a therapist, research, podcaster, and the author of The Wisdom of Your Body: Finding Healing, Wholeness, and Connection Through Embodied Living. She talks to us about how embodiment is different from body image, how it can change our understanding of healing & theology, and how to understand our ‘stress staircase.’

Things we mention in this episode/other resources:
- CXMH ep. 34 - Self-Image, Parenting, & Learning to Love Ourselves As We Are (feat. Hillary McBride)
- Hillary’s other books: Mothers, Daughters, and Body Image: Learning to Love Ourselves as We Are and Embodiment and Eating Disorders: Theory, Research, Prevention and Treatment
- Preorder Holly’s book, The Soul of the Helper: Seven Stages to Seeing the Sacred Within Yourself So You Can See It in Others!

Connect with Hillary on her website, on Twitter, or on Instagram. Listen to her podcast ‘Other People’s Problems.’ Buy The Wisdom of Your Body: Finding Healing, Wholeness, and Connection Through Embodied Living on Amazon.

Quotes:
- “If we think about ‘body image,’ the construct still keeps us in the territory of image: it is still about how we appear.” (tweet)
- “Embodiment is our birthright, it is how we are born. It is something that is the most true about us.” (tweet)
- “The way we’ve constructed our society and our healing methods are very disembodied. The way we understand ourselves is disembodied. But the body has not abandoned us as humanity.” (tweet)

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Intro/Outro music for this episode is ‘Fall Down’ by Rivers & Robots.