Deep Dive: Reclaiming the Black Body with Alishia McCullough - EFTROU: S3, Ep3

2023-06-08

Embodiment for the Rest of Us - Season 3, Episode 3: Alishia McCullough Chavonne (she/her) and Jenn (she/her) interviewed Alishia McCullough (she/her) about her somatic embodiment journey of reclaiming the Black body. Alishia McCullough (she/her) is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Therapist, Somatic Healer, Writer, and Culture Shifter supporting BIPOC folks to holistically heal their relationship with their bodies. She specializes in somatic therapy, trauma healing, and eating disorder treatment with a focus on i...

Embodiment for the Rest of Us - Season 3, Episode 3: Alishia McCullough

Chavonne (she/her) and Jenn (she/her) interviewed Alishia McCullough (she/her) about her somatic embodiment journey of reclaiming the Black body.

Alishia McCullough (she/her) is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Therapist, Somatic Healer, Writer, and Culture Shifter supporting BIPOC folks to holistically heal their relationship with their bodies. She specializes in somatic therapy, trauma healing, and eating disorder treatment with a focus on increasing embodied awareness and liberation. She is the owner of Black and Embodied™ Counseling and Consulting PLLC, outside of her clinical work, she is a Co-Founder of the global Amplify Melanated Voices Movement 2020, and has worked as a mental health influencer in META's "wellbeing collective". Her work has been featured by Forbes, Target, Bustle, Times OC, and Black Girl Nerds. To learn more about her work, check out at blackandembodied.com and her Instagram account @blackandembodied.

Content Warning: discussion of privilege, discussion of diet culture, discussion of fatphobia, discussion of eating disorders, discussion of healthism, discussion of racism

Trigger Warnings: None for this episode

The captions for this episode can be found at https://embodimentfortherestofus.com/season-3/season-3-episode-3-alishia-mccullough/#captions

A few highlights:

6:36: Alishia shares her understanding of the complexities of embodiment for Black, Indigenous, and People of the Global Majority

36:45: Alishia discusses her devotion to her own embodiment and supporting others’ embodiment process

45:01: Alishia shares her process writing her book, Reclaiming the Black Body

53:11: Alishia discusses how she sees her support work expanding in the future

1:01:35: Alishia shares how she encourages others and herself to hold boundaries around checking in with capacity, tuning into misalignment, and reclaiming energy

1:25:37: Alishia discusses the linked parallels of trauma-informed and race-informed work

1:39:57: Alishia shares what’s next for her personally and professionally

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