This Episode Will Calm Your Nervous System | Prentis Hemphill

This Episode Will Calm Your Nervous System | Prentis Hemphill

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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