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
Links from this episode:
#AmplifyMelanatedVoices
The Healing Wisdom of Africa
Imani Babarin
In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts
It’s Always Been Ours
Jessica Wilson
Life with Lost Keys
On Being with Krista Trippett episode with Resmaa Menakem
Rene Brooks
Resmaa Menakem
Rest Is Resistance
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
What My Bones Know
White Supremacy Culture
Music: “Bees and Bumblebees (Abeilles et Bourdons), Op. 562” by Eugène Dédé through the Creative Commons License
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