Grief, Liberation, and Embodiment with Michelle Phillips - EFTROU: S2, Ep6

Embodiment for the Rest of Us - Season 2, Episode 6: Michelle Phillips

 

Chavonne (she/her) and Jenn (she/her) interviewed Michelle Phillips (they/them/we) about their embodiment journey. 

 

Michelle Phillips, The Liberation Strategist, is a mental health and spiritual care practitioner with over 15 years of experience in transformational and holistic care. They have been on a journey of walking with individuals toward a deeper understanding of themselves on every level of wellness-spiritual, somatic, mental, and emotional. Michelle is the founder of Liberation Strategies, an agent of liberatory change which provides liberation coaching for individuals, nonprofits, and organizations. Compassionate and grounded in helping people realize their own power to cultivate change, Michelle creates space for clients to transmute their grief toward joy and liberation.

 

Michelle is an intuitive mental health clinician, coach, consultant, and facilitator. A native of Decatur, Georgia, a current resident, and a provisionally licensed clinician in Washington State, they hold a Master's in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Seattle University in Seattle, WA. In addition, Michelle is a 2020 National Board of Certified Counselors Minority Fellow for Clinical Mental Health Counseling. 

 

Michelle is a parent, a partner, and a step-parent to two Cairn Terriers, Adler and Dempsey. Michelle loves being outside in forests, gardens, canyon, mountains, and at the water's edge when not working. They love learning more about herbs and plant relatives while hiking and walking in gardens. They also love singing, a deep and soothing balm for the soul.

 

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Content Warning: discussion of privilege, discussion of diet culture, mention of mental health struggles, discussion of ableism, discussion of co opting of BIPOC practices

 

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A few highlights:

5:07: Michelle shares their understanding of embodiment and their own embodiment journey

16:49: Michelle discusses how the pandemic has affected their devotion to embodiment, what lights them up up on a regular basis to feel embodied and how to make this accessible for everyone

35:15: Michelle shares how one’s sense of embodiment impacts their own liberation and efforts toward collective liberation

54:57: Michelle discusses their understanding of “the rest of us” and how they are a part of that, as well as their privileges

1:04:33: Michelle shares what liberation coaching is and embodiment practices for folks moving through grief and toward liberation

1:25:23: Michelle discusses how listeners can make a difference based on this conversation

1:28:30: Michelle discusses where to be found and what’s next for them

Links from this episode:

Healing Ourselves To Heal Others: A Virtual Conference

WSQ: Black Love

 

Music: “Bees and Bumblebees (Abeilles et Bourdons​)​, Op. 562” by Eugène Dédé through the Creative Commons License

 

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