In this episode of Becoming Anchored, co-host and licensed therapist Laura Deneen is joined by fellow licensed therapist Heidi Hensley.
Together they share the idea of embodiment, how to reconnect to yourself and your body, and how this improves body image.
Key Takeaways:
- What Is Embodiment?: Embodiment is the experience of being in your body and reconnecting your head to your heart. It is about having congruence with your head, heart, body, soul, and mind. Heidi and Laura discuss how common it is to struggle with embodiment.
- Ways In Which We Disconnect From Our Bodies: Together we discuss many things that disconnect us from our bodies, such as the experience of trauma. Heidi and Laura also talk about self-abandonment, which is deprioritization of self. This may look like denying your hunger cues; or perhaps your parents did not teach you to set boundaries, so you struggle in the present with assertiveness skills.
- Interventions To Become More Embodied: Heidi encourages listeners to practice noticing bodily sensations and attuning to them without needing to fix them. She reminds us bodily sensations are messages telling us what we may need. Together we discuss using the interventions of body scan and mirror work to become more embodied. Heidi tells us our body image can improve, even when we do not like our bodies, by caring for our bodies.
This episode provides insight into embodiment and gives you practical interventions to improve your body image by being more embodied.
Homework: Make an effort to slow down and be present with your body in a way that feels good to you.
Affirmation: “I notice my emotion with compassion as a cue to my internal, external, and relational experiences.”
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