Breaking Generational Cycles: Embodiment & Healing Trauma with Prentis Hemphill

We Can Do Hard Things

Treat Media and Glennon Doyle

Relationships, Education, Self-improvement, Society & Culture

4.8 • 42.7K Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2024

⏱️ 58 minutes

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319. Breaking Generational Cycles: Embodiment & Healing Trauma with Prentis Hemphill Glennon and Abby welcome Prentis Hemphill, a writer, embodiment facilitator, political organizer, and therapist. They discuss individual and collective healing through embodiment. The conversation spans the concepts of embodiment, cycle breaking within families and generational healing and how to get back into a healthier relationship with yourself and others. Discover: -The important practice of crying dates to help rediscover yourself & your instincts; -How to learn the difference between your trauma and your personality; and -What it means to be a cycle breaker & how to own your part in generational healing. About Prentis: Prentis Hemphill is a writer, embodiment facilitator, political organizer, and therapist. They are the founder and director of the Embodiment Institute and the Black Embodiment Initiative, and the host of the acclaimed podcast Finding Our Way. Their work and writing have appeared in The New York Times, HuffPost, You Are Your Best Thing (edited by Tarana Burke and Brené Brown), and Holding Change (by adrienne maree brown). And their new book is called, What it takes to heal.

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0:00.0	We can do hard things,
0:01.0	we're going to be.
0:03.0	We can do hard things,
0:10.0	we can do hard things, Quad Squad.
0:12.0	Welcome back. Yeah, thanks. Welcome back.
0:16.2	I am really looking forward to today. Yeah. Because I have listened to, I think every word this person has said in their career.
0:27.0	And I just read their new book and I think it's the most important work in the world that this
0:36.6	person is doing trying to get us all to heal, not only collectively, but personally.
0:46.2	Anyway, you know what, I'm going to let them tell you what they do.
0:49.0	Today we have Prentiss Hemphill, who is a writer, embodiment facilitator, political organizer, and therapist.
0:56.4	They are the founder and director of the Embodiment Institute and the Black Embodiment Initiative
1:01.8	and the host of the acclaimed podcast, Finding Our Way.
1:06.4	So good.
1:07.5	Their work and writing have appeared in the New York Times, Huffington Post, You Are Your
1:11.9	Best Thing, edited by Toronto Burke and
1:14.8	Bernie Brown and holding change by Adrian Marie Brown, who you all know Pod Squad, and
1:20.1	their new book is called What It Takes to Heal, and it is so good and so beautiful and so important.
1:29.0	Wow, thank you.
1:30.0	And Pod Squad, if I seem like I'm talking really calmly and slowly right now, it's because I am
1:37.5	jealous, apprentices' nervous system.
1:41.1	Yeah, what did you say to me before we got on? He said, what did you say? Okay, so Prentiss.
1:47.4	Yes, first of all, welcome. Thank you so much. It's so good to be with you all. Thank you for the invitation.
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