Episode 126: Returning Home to Our Bodies with Abigail Clarke
Today on the Everything Belongs Podcast, Madison is in conversation with Abigail Rose Clarke.
Abigail is an author, somatic educator, writer, and artist. She has an inordinate amount of love for octopuses, the moon, and her extensive collection of anatomy books. She is the creator of The Somatic Tarot and The Body Oracle decks, and the author of Returning Home to Our Bodies: Reimagining the Relationship Between Our Bodies and the World. Abigail does not teach that embodiment always feels good, because it doesn’t. Her work prioritizes exploration over assumed results, because the body is always adaptable and always adapting. Our creative efforts should do the same, and they can, when we are in relationship with our own bodies. In a world of such rapid change, Abigail teaches embodiment as a practice and a responsibility. As the world changes so dramatically we are tasked with the enormous responsibility of remaining present to the world as it is, which requires us to remain present to ourselves as we are. From here, the way forward becomes possible.
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In this episode we talk about:
The earth being helpful in supporting us to face impossible conditions
Whiteness wellness makes embodiment into a product and thing to do
Somatic Returning
Stewardship
Using somatic experiencing to heal from trauma
Somatics and Anatomy
The body is more than just the nervous system
Comfort and belonging in the body
Western medicine is pathology oriented
Our relationship with the body is a problem
What does the body do in a state of health, or ease?
What is autoimmune disease?
Releasing perfection, performance, and productivity
Nuances of being in danger, and the need to guard and protect
Slowing down to feel the support
Being held and what can we trust
How politics influence darwinism - the survival of the fittest
Adaptability
Community mind over individual mind
