This Episode Will Calm Your Nervous System | Prentis Hemphill

10% Happier with Dan Harris

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Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.6 • 12.9K Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2026

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Strategies for getting out of your head and thriving in a chaotic world.

Prentis Hemphill is a writer, political organizer, therapist and somatic facilitator. They are the author of the national bestseller What It Takes to Heal: How Transforming Ourselves Can Change the World, and host of the acclaimed podcasts Finding Our Way and Becoming the People. Prentis is also the Co-founder of The Embodiment Institute (TEI), a training and research organization that applies somatic practices to individual, organizational and collective care through a healing justice framework.

In this episode we talk about:

What embodiment really means
How our bodies may be communicating more information to our brains than we realize
Practices to feel more at home in your body and regulate your nervous system
The "head, heart, gut" way of listening to different kinds of intelligence
Why so many of us are pulled out of our center in modern life
Micro-interdependence
Simple, everyday ways to humanize one another in an era of mass vilification
How cultural pressures contribute to anxiety and burnout
How to set boundaries
Identifying what you truly care about

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Transcript

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0:00.0	This is the 10% Happier Podcast. I'm Dan Harris.
0:07.8	Hello, party people. How we doing today? We all know it, we all feel it. We're living in a time
0:24.6	where our nervous systems are under assault. And today I've got a guest who has an enormous
0:30.7	amount of practical and very wise guidance for relaxing your nervous system, getting out of your head,
0:37.2	and into your body.
0:38.8	Prentice Hemphill is a therapist, somatics teacher, and the author of the best-selling book,
0:44.2	What It Takes to Heal.
0:46.1	In this conversation, we talk about what the term embodiment really means.
0:50.8	A lot of people throw that word around.
0:52.7	I'm not sure they even know what they're talking about, So we're going to get specific on what embodiment really means. We also talk about how our bodies are sending us more signals, communicating more information to us than we often realize. We go over some practices to feel more at home in your body and to regulate your nervous system. We talk about
1:11.6	the head, heart, gut way of listening to different kinds of intelligence. Why so many of us are
1:16.7	pulled out of our center in modern life so frequently, the concept of microinterdependence,
1:22.9	some simple everyday ways to humanize other people in an era of mass vilification, how cultural pressures
1:29.4	contribute to anxiety and burnout, how to set boundaries, how to identify what you actually
1:33.8	care about, and much more. Before we dive in, a quick word about taking care of your own mind.
1:41.5	A lot of people worry that it's maybe self-indulgent to take care of your own mind,
1:46.4	to train your own mind, especially at a time when it feels like the world's on fire. I strongly
1:50.9	believe that training your mind is actually a community service, that there's a geopolitical case
1:55.9	for you to get your shit together because it allows you to respond more effectively to the various
2:01.6	emergencies we all face in the world and in our own lives. And my team and I have built our new
2:07.0	meditation app around this very principle. Our mission is to lead you through the process of
2:11.5	training your own mind with a growing library of meditations from world class teachers.
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