Welcome to finding Our Way. I'm Prentiss-Mimpil and I'm a somatics teacher, practitioner, and writer.

For the past 10 years or so I've been working at the intersection of

healing and social change. When I started doing that work I was focused on

how do we in harm and violence in our communities?

And I was also interested in how do we in our communities and our locations

figure out how to address and ultimately heal from harm.

One of the things I realized in doing that work of ending harm and violence is that harm replicates itself.

And our efforts towards a more justice-filled and compassionate world

get undermined by our unfamiliar and unruly emotional selves.

So I decided to become a therapist,

primarily so that people like me could sit across

from someone like themselves.

As a therapist, I was introduced to Somatics,

and Somatics taught me the importance of the body

and how much history and possibility we hold in them.

Since then I've worked as a politicized healer trying to bridge healing work with the

political domain.

And somewhere in the midst of that work, the whole world changed.

What I was learning led me to and was central to my work

with Black Lives Matter, and I learned a whole lot there and I've learned a lot since.

What I've primarily learned along the way is that the world we want cannot be realized

without our own healing and transformation and

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