I'm Emily P. Freeman and welcome to the next right thing. You're listening to episode 213.

This is a podcast about making decisions but also about making a life. If you struggle with

decision fatigue, chronic hesitation, or if you just need a few minutes away from the constant

stream of information and this sometimes delightful but also distracting hum of entertainment,

you're in the right place for discerning your next right thing. What do you do when you feel like

your decisions are running counter to your bodily experience? How can you know when you're living a

disembodied life? My guest today has asked and answered these questions and more in her years long

work as a psychologist, a researcher, an author, and a teacher. Dr. Hillary McBride is the author of

the new release The Wisdom of Your Body where she writes about what it means to find healing,

wholeness, and connection through embodied living. I'm grateful for the opportunity to sit down

with Hillary not only to ask her my questions but to pay close attention to the questions she poses as

well. They may be questions you've had too but either haven't found the courage to ask or the

language to articulate them. As we continue to discern our next right thing, Hillary encourages us

to refuse to see our body as simply this thing that carries our minds around but is actually a

vital player in our decision making capacity. Listen in.

Well, Hillary, welcome to the next right thing. It is an absolute pleasure to have you today.

I would love to begin just by asking you to tell us in as many words as you like a little bit about

you and the work that you do. Where should I begin? I'll start with kind of my credentials because

we're a way of orienting you to my work in probably the quickest way possible but I'm a registered

psychologist and what that means is that I teach the university, I have a private practice, I write,

I research often because there's a more public element of my work than I'm speaking about things

that I do too and trying to translate things that I've learned in the academy related to mental health

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