I always thought that my body was just an unfortunate container carrying around my brain. Embodiment is new to me. Hillary McBride said, “Why don’t you stop calling your body ‘it’ and start calling your body ‘she’ and ‘her’? Because she is you. She isn’t separate from your brain and from your heart and soul, she is you. And she is Team You and only Team You, and her only agenda in this entire world is to keep you safe and flourishing. She won’t tell you a lie.” So I started referring to my body as “her,” and I talk to her in the most loving of ways. And when she tells me something, I’m going
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