This Episode Will Calm Your Nervous System | Prentis Hemphill

About this episode

Prentis Hemphill discusses strategies for calming the nervous system and thriving amidst chaos.

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 Join Dan and Emmy Award-winning journalist…

People in this episode

Host: Dan Harris

Guest: Prentis Hemphill

Topics covered

• nervous system regulation
• embodiment
• mental health
• anxiety
• boundaries
• human connection

Keywords

• nervous system
• embodiment
• anxiety
• burnout
• mindfulness
• human connection
• boundaries

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: The Embodiment Institute, Finding Our Way, Becoming the People

Books & works: What It Takes to Heal: How Transforming Ourselves Can Change the World

Places: 92NY

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