This Episode Will Calm Your Nervous System | Prentis Hemphill

2026-04-08

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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:

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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