This Episode Will Calm Your Nervous System | Prentis Hemphill
4/8/20261 hr 7 min
Strategies for getting out of your head and thriving in a chaotic world.
Prentis Hemphill is a writer, political organizer, therapist and somatic facilitator. They are the author of the national bestseller What It Takes to Heal: How Transforming Ourselves Can Change the World, and host of the acclaimed podcasts Finding Our Way and Becoming the People. Prentis is also the Co-founder of The Embodiment Institute (TEI), a training and research organization that applies somatic practices to individual, organizational and collective care through a healing justice framework.
In this episode we talk about:
- What embodiment really means
- How our bodies may be communicating more information to our brains than we realize
- Practices to feel more at home in your body and regulate your nervous system
- The "head, heart, gut" way of listening to different kinds of intelligence
- Why so many of us are pulled out of our center in modern life
- Micro-interdependence
- Simple, everyday ways to humanize one another in an era of mass vilification
- How cultural pressures contribute to anxiety and burnout
- How to set boundaries
- Identifying what you truly care about
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First 90 secondsDan Harris· Host0:00
[upbeat music] This is the 10% Happier podcast. I'm Dan Harris. [upbeat music] Hello, party people. How we doing today? We all know it. We all feel it. We're living in a time where our nervous systems are under assault. And today, I've got a guest who has an enormous amount of practical and very wise guidance for relaxing your nervous system, getting out of your head and into your body. Prentiss Hemphill is a therapist, somatics teacher, and the author of the best-selling book, What It Takes to Heal. In this conversation, we talk about what the term embodiment really means. A lot of people throw that word around, and I'm not sure they even know what they're talking about, so we're gonna get specific on what embodiment really means. We also talk about how our bodies are sending us more signals, communicating more information to us than we often realize. We go over some practices to feel more at home in your body and to regulate your nervous system. We talk about the head-heart-gut way of listening to different kinds of intelligence, why so many of us are pulled out of our center in modern life so frequently, the concept of micro-interdependence, some simple everyday ways to humanize other people in an era of mass vilification, how cultural pressures contribute