Episode 77: Why We Need Relationships to Heal and Grow with Dr. Hillary McBride
“We value and we return back to our communities the healing that we've experienced.”
-Dr. Hillary McBride, The Everything Belongs Podcast
Today on the Everything Belongs Podcast, Madison is in conversation with Dr. Hillary McBride. Hillary L. McBride, PhD, is a Registered Psychologist who completed her doctoral work in Counselling Psychology at the University of British Columbia. She recently won the International Young Investigator Award for her research in Human Sexuality and is the author of Mothers, Daughters, and Body Image: Learning to Love Ourselves as We Are, and The Wisdom Of Your Body: Finding Healing, Wholeness, and Connection through Embodied Living. She is the senior editor of the textbook: Embodiment and Eating Disorders: Theory, Research, Prevention, and Treatment. In this episode, Madison and Hillary speak on Hillary's new book, The Wisdom of the Body, having healthy mirrors for our healing, Hillary's markers for noticing the healing happen, our birthright to speak out our needs, how healing our nervous system helps heal our larger community and much more…
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In this episode, we talk about:
Hillary's new book, The Wisdom of Your Body
How interpersonal experiences mirror to us what it means to be a body
Creating healthy mirrors for our body and needs
Resourcing our child or younger self in the present as an adult
How science and research can support our mindset around allowing this work
Hillary's markers that healing is occuring, including frequency, intensity & duration
The nuances of seeing care without engaging in codependency
How much your body & non-verbal communication matters
Letting ourselves borrow from our healthy mirrors and templates
The staircase of stress response
How natural it is to express needs and how it can get shut down
Interdependency and our body's healing role in supporting our larger community
