152 Learning To Live Inside Your Body with Dr. Hillary McBride

The Place We Find Ourselves

Adam Young

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🗓️ 21 February 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

I am joined today by Dr. Hillary McBride to discuss excerpts from her new book titled, “Practices for Embodied Living.” Topics covered include: how to feel your feelings, being alive in your body (eroticism), and the story of your relationship to your sensuality and sexuality. Finally, I ask Hillary about her beautiful claim that we often find the Holy precisely in the places we were told not to look (including in our bodies).

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0:00.0	You are listening to the place we find ourselves podcast. I'm Adam Young and I am
0:06.3	delighted to be joined today from Canada by Dr. Hillary McBride.
0:12.8	Hillary is good to see you.
0:14.8	So glad to be with you, Adam.
0:16.0	Thank you for the invitation.
0:19.4	This is your third book, correct? Technically, I haven't edited textbook.
0:26.2	No one reads that.
0:27.4	It's not like a popular trade book that people are curling up with in front of the fire
0:32.2	on a February afternoon.
0:33.9	So this book is called Practices for Embodied Living and I want to just start with this question.
0:42.4	Before the book was written, what stirred inside of you that made you want to write this particular book?
0:50.4	Sure. And because I know you love story I will share with you the narrative piece that goes along with this. I saw your eyes light up.
1:00.0	So when I was in the process of really getting to know what embodiment was I would say I am through my masters at this point I was working on the textbook I was just mentioning around embodiment what does it mean to be embodied how do we
1:13.8	understand that as it impacts treatment of various forms of
1:17.4	psychopathology and presentations of distress you know my husband comes home
1:21.4	from work one day and he he comes into the apartment we were living at the point and I'm sitting in in the office like a gargoyle like hunched over the laptop you know that know, the characteristic feature of a person who's been sitting at the laptop for hours on end, only my face only illuminated by the glow of the laptop screen.
1:41.6	So at this point it's gotten dark enough that I've somehow forgotten to turn the lights on.
1:46.3	God knows how long I was actually sitting there, but long enough to have a kind of a key moment of insight for him and for myself of realizing isn't this hilarious I'm
1:56.1	writing this textbook on embodiment which would signify culturally like maybe you know
1:59.9	something about it right you've got some things to say. And here I am completely
2:04.7	disconnected from the practice of being embodied. The ability to know the
2:08.8	information is one thing, but the whole reason that embodiment exists as this paradigm of
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