Where Personal Healing Meets Collective Change with Prentis Hemphill (295)
Therapist Uncensored Podcast
Sue Marriott LCSW, CGP & Ann Kelley PhD
4.7 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 31 March 2026
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
We don’t heal alone – we heal in connection.
Prentis Hemphill, alongside co-host Sue Marriott, traces their path from social organizing to somatic therapy, revealing how personal healing and collective transformation are deeply intertwined. Together, they explore how inherited myths, power dynamics, and collective trauma shape both our inner worlds and our social systems. This episode invites therapists and change makers alike to consider healing as more than an individual process—it’s relational, embodied, and political in impact.
Prentis offers grounded reflections and practical tools for working with the body, navigating power, and engaging in healing that extends beyond the self.
“When we are courageous, we can do the unexpected and start to mold the world around a vision bigger than one produced by fear. Every inch of progress, every ounce of love, every truly meaningful action from here on out will happen through courage, not comfort.”  –
Time Stamps for Where Personal Healing Meets Collective Change (295)
06:15 The interplay of interpersonal and systemic dynamics 09:31 The challenge of updating therapeutic practices 16:49 Impact of myths on human behavior 20:32 Reflections on current political climate and collective trauma 24:10 The myth of “American Exceptionalism” 36:50 Self-care and community engagement 40:07 Resources for healing and transformation
About our Guest – Prentis Hemphill
Prentis Hemphill is the bestselling author of What It Takes to Heal, a groundbreaking exploration of healing, justice, and transformation. A therapist, somatics teacher, facilitator, political organizer, and writer, Prentis is also the founder of The Embodiment Institute and a leading voice in embodied leadership and collective healing. For over a decade, Prentis has worked with individuals and organizations through their most challenging moments of change—navigating leadership transitions, conflict, and the alignment of practice with values. Grounded in an embodied approach, their work ensures that our intentions aren’t just ideas, but are fully lived, felt, and practiced. Before founding The Embodiment Institute, Prentis served as the Healing Justice Director at Black Lives Matter Global Network and was a lead somatics teacher with generative somatics and Black Organizing for Leadership and Dignity (BOLD). They hold an M.A. in Clinical Psychology and have provided therapeutic services in low-cost mental health clinics, centering marginalized communities. Prentis has contributed to Atlas of the Heart (BrenĂ© Brown), The Politics of Trauma (Staci K. Haines), You Are Your Best Thing (edited by BrenĂ© Brown & Tarana Burke), and Holding Change (adrienne maree brown). They are also the creator and host of the acclaimed podcasts Finding Our Way and Becoming the People, which have surpassed over a million downloads. At its core, Prentis’ work challenges the complacency of mainstream therapeutic models, infusing healing with the rigor of justice, repair, and accountability. They believe that reclaiming feeling and relationship creates space for true transformation—in ourselves, our movements, and the world. Prentis lives on a small farm in Durham, NC, with their partner, Kasha, their child, and two dogs.
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Resources for Where Personal Healing Meets Collective Change with Prentis Hemphill (295)
The Embodiment Institute – Training institute, research entity, and culture change engine that strategically develops people and organizations to be agents of transformation in families, social movements and the environment. Prentis’s Website – Resources and information “Becoming the People” – Prentis’s podcast What It Takes to Heal; Published 2024 by Penguin Random House -Prentis’s book, get your copy today!
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| 0:00.0 | The ability to incorporate multiple perspectives and angles, to position ourselves in relationship |
| 0:08.8 | to each other to go, there's something that you can see that I cannot see. |
| 0:12.3 | And you can say, Prentice, there's something that you can see that I cannot see. |
| 0:15.4 | And that we negotiate our realities and our understandings through that, and that is power with. |
| 0:20.5 | I still have my sense of agency and choice and I'm open to being moved and modified by things |
| 0:27.4 | that I don't yet understand. |
| 0:28.6 | That power with, we are unskilful because we don't have the models, we don't have the |
| 0:34.2 | spaces to practice that and what it really means. |
| 0:36.7 | And I think it's a developmental miss that we are not really valuing that stage of the process of becoming an adult. |
| 0:45.8 | And we're saying power is who has the biggest muscles. |
| 0:48.9 | We're not realizing that that kind of power, still is power, but that kind of power ultimately destroys everything. |
| 0:58.6 | Welcome to Therapist Uncensored. Building on decades of professional experience, this podcast |
| 1:03.8 | tackles neurobiology, modern attachment, and more, in an honest way that's helpful in healing humans. |
| 1:09.8 | Your session begins now with Dr. Anne Kelly and |
| 1:12.3 | Sue Marriott. |
| 1:19.8 | Hey, you guys, while we know relationships are wonderful, they are also really hard. Many of us believe |
| 1:26.9 | that they shouldn't be, that if we have good connection |
| 1:29.8 | and good communication, things will just go smoothly. But it's really that belief that can make us feel |
| 1:34.7 | stubborn and even more hopeless. So relationships take work. It does for Sue and I. We can make it |
| 1:40.8 | look easy. It's not. And one of the ways is because many of us, we differ. We |
| 1:45.2 | differ in what activates us, what makes us feel threat, the expectation. And it's these |
| 1:49.8 | differences that are held in our body, not our thoughts. And they influence how we talk, how we love, |
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