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The Place We Find Ourselves

97 The Story Your Body Is Telling (Bonus Episode)

The Place We Find Ourselves

Adam Young

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.82.5K Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2021

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Your body tells a story. The sensations in your body reveal something about what you have experienced, what you hold, and what you carry. Most of us are either unaware of the sensations in our bodies, or we ignore them, or we war against them. An alternative is to pay attention to your body and to become curious about what your body may be telling you. Jenny McGrath joins me today to talk about her Embodied Story digital course. You can sign up here.

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0:00.0

You are listening to the Place We Find Ourselves Podcast.

0:03.4

I'm Adam Young and today I am joined again by Jenny McGrath.

0:07.9

Jenny, it's good to see you.

0:09.4

It's good to see you too.

0:10.6

I think she's having me back.

0:12.6

Jenny is on the show today to talk about her passion,

0:17.3

which is how story intersects with bodies.

0:22.0

And she has a digital course, a video course,

0:26.3

what has lots of components to it that she's going to talk about.

0:29.4

But let's start with a little bit about your story.

0:33.0

Like how did you personally become so interested in the relationship

0:37.8

between your physical body and the story of your life?

0:42.1

I think it's really been a lifelong journey for me.

0:46.3

And I think I've seen that the more I've learned about my own body and my own story.

0:53.8

And so from a really young age,

0:57.2

I had a lot of symptoms of what I now know of as trauma symptoms.

1:04.6

I remember often asking, you know, what does it mean when you feel like you're dreaming?

1:09.6

And I just had this sense often that I wasn't real or the world wasn't real.

1:15.0

And by the time I was nine, I was having to work with chiropractors and physical therapists

1:21.0

because of really severe lower back pain due to disconnection with my pelvis and my pelvic floor muscles.

1:31.0

And I didn't know why at the time.

1:33.5

I can now see all of the ways in which my body was speaking to me.

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