ENCOUNTERING EMBODIMENT
An interactive, in-person support group to help you find healing, wholeness, and connection with your body
Now enrolling for the summer 2024 cohort
Time: tbd
Four sessions: tbd
Meeting Location: tbd
Cost: $400 (4, 2 hours classes); payment plan available
Each session includes…
DISCUSSION on topics from the book, Wisdom of Your Body by Dr. Hillary McBride and the companion guide Practices for Embodied Living: Experiencing the Wisdom of Your Body
MOVEMENT: gentle movement and breathwork
TOOLS: in-session use of adaptive and sensory devices/resources to play with and try out.
MID-WEEK ENGAGEMENT: activities to interact with throughout the week between sessions.
PERSONALIZED PLAN: a collection of options to reach for when your true need is something other than trying to change your outer appearance.
COMMUNITY: An opportunity to continue supporting yourself and healing your relationship with your body within community
Why EMBODIMENT and not “body image”?
The term embodiment guides us to the experience of how it feels to experience life through the body. It includes and expands beyond the concept of body image which keeps us focused on our appearance, seeing ourselves as an object to be viewed from the outside.
The disruption to safe embodiment is rooted in a need for safety, a desire to belong, and the pursuit of dignity and respect. The body is a container for sensations that can feel confusing, uncomfortable, and distressing.
The ENCOUNTERING EMBODIMENT support group is intended to help you come into relationship with your body in a way that helps you see your body as a resource, not an obstacle, for healing and wholeness.
The term Body Image is the mental picture you have of your body. It includes attitudes and feelings about how you look and how you think other people see you. It also influences how you see other people.
Our body image evaluation is based on what we’ve been told is good, or not so good, when it comes to that image.
Change does not happen through trying to trick ourselves out of a story we have been groomed to rehearse. Transformation happens when we have a new experience of ourselves and hold our attention on it long enough for it to sink in.
Change does not happen through trying to trick ourselves out of a story we have been groomed to rehearse. Transformation happens when we have a new experience of ourselves and hold our attention on it long enough for it to sink in.
-Hillary L McBride, PhD
Imagine having an insightful and compassionate relationship with your body.
Not spending all your time and energy worrying about how you look. Not feeling confused and distressed about how you feel.
Being able to…
name and call-out distorted stories about your body from our culture that feel normal.
use your body as a resource, noticing sensory cues
recognize and care for hard emotions inside your mind and body, like guilt and shame
So the you can…
feel more respect towards and connection with your body
live more confidently and have the capacity to tolerate distress
respond appropriately to fatigue, hunger, fullness, and pain
become flexible instead of perfectionistic
find more space to live within your sense of self
write truer stories, embodied stories, about your body
have a better understanding of what your body, mind, and heart are asking for in heated moments
Are you ready to find healing, wholeness, and connection with your body?
day and time tbd
Four sessions: tbd
Meeting Location: In-person, location tbd
Cost: $400 (4, 2 hours classes); payment plan available
