How to Listen to Your Body | Hillary McBride, PhD
Preacher Boys Podcast
Eric Skwarczynski
4.6 • 701 Ratings
🗓️ 3 November 2021
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
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Many of us have a complicated relationship with our body.
Maybe you've been made to feel ashamed of your body or like it isn't good enough. Maybe your body is riddled with stress, pain, or the effects of trauma. Maybe you think of your body as an accessory to what you believe you really are--your mind. Maybe your experiences with racism, sexism, ableism, heterosexism, ageism, or sizeism have made you believe your body isn't the right kind of body. Whatever the reason, many of us don't feel at home in our bodies. But being disconnected from ourselves as bodies means being disconnected from truly living and from the interconnection that weaves us all together.
Psychologist and award-winning researcher Hillary McBride explores the broken and unhealthy ideas we have inherited about our bodies. Embodiment is the way we are in the world, and our embodiment is heavily influenced by who we have been allowed to be. McBride shows that many of us feel disembodied due to colonization, racism, sexism, and patriarchy--destructive systems that rank certain bodies as less valuable, beautiful, or human than others. Embracing our embodiment can liberate us from these systems. As we come to understand the world around us and the stories we've been told, we see that our perspective of reality often limits how we see and experience ourselves, each other, and what we believe is Sacred. Instead of the body being a problem to overcome, our bodies can be the very place where we feel most alive, the seat of our spirituality and our wisdom.
The Wisdom of Your Body offers a compassionate, healthy, and holistic perspective on embodied living. Weaving together illuminating research, stories from her work as a therapist, and deeply personal narratives of healing from a life-threatening eating disorder, a near-fatal car accident, and chronic pain, McBride invites us to reclaim the wisdom of the body and to experience the wholeness that has been there all along. End-of-chapter questions and practices are included.
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| 0:00.0 | Trigger warning. This podcast contains descriptions of various abusive situations. Listener discretion is |
| 0:07.3 | advised. You are listening to the Preacher Boys podcast, a podcast shedding light on decades of |
| 0:13.9 | mental, physical, and sexual abuse within the independent fundamental Baptist movement. |
| 0:19.5 | The testimony shared on this podcast are told from |
| 0:22.4 | the personal experience and perspective of the survivors. Not all legal outcomes are known or final. |
| 0:28.9 | Any suspect is presumed innocent until proven guilty in the court of law. To find more information |
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| 0:45.7 | Doc. Now, here is your host, Eric Squarsensky. I cannot tell you how excited I am for |
| 0:52.8 | today's interview. I'm sitting down with Dr. Hilary L. McBride. |
| 0:57.0 | She's a licensed therapist, award-winning researcher, and a sought-after speaker who specializes |
| 1:01.5 | in embodiment. She co-hosts the Liturgist podcast, which averages 4 million downloads per year, |
| 1:06.8 | and hosts the other people's problems podcast and appeared on many other shows. |
| 1:11.6 | McBride's clinical and academic work has been recognized by the American Psychological Association and |
| 1:16.1 | the Canadian Psychological Association. She's an adjunct professor in the Department of Counseling |
| 1:20.9 | Psychology at the University of British Columbia and has a private counseling practice in Vancouver. |
| 1:26.7 | She's also the author of Mother's Daughters and Body Image |
| 1:29.4 | and the co-editor of Embodiment and Eating Disorders. |
| 1:32.8 | You can check out her website at Hilaryl.McBride.com |
| 1:35.7 | or just visit the link in the show notes to check out a copy of the book we'll be discussing today. |
| 1:41.1 | The book we're talking about today is called The Wisdom of Your Body, |
| 1:44.9 | finding healing, wholeness, and connection through embodied living. today. The book we're talking about today is called The Wisdom of Your Body, Finding Healing, |
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