Episode 59: Your Body Is A Person with Jamie Lee Finch
“Once I started listening to my body, I couldn't stop hearing her.”
-Jamie Lee Finch, The Everything Belongs Podcast
Today on the Everything Belongs Podcast, Madison is once again, in conversation with Jamie Lee Finch. Jamie is a sexuality and embodiment coach, intuitive healer, self-conversation facilitator, author and poet. As a survivor of both childhood trauma and religious trauma, Jamie has a deep familiarity with the language used by those who come from authoritarian backgrounds and desire to return to a feeling of wholeness within their bodies — after years of assimilating to a belief that required them to separate from themselves. She believes our bodies have a language and that language is our mother tongue. The work that she does is in reconnecting people to their bodies, the language their body is speaking, and the voice their body is speaking with; it is deep reconciliation healing work on a mental, emotional, spiritual, and physical level. She specializes in reframing the reality of embodiment through that language of relationship, and works with individuals of all genders who consistently find within themselves an inability to connect with, communicate with, and successfully relate to their own bodies — physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. In this episode, Madison and Jamie speak on Jamie’s experience exiting a cult and how she healed, cult dynamics and evangelicalism, Jamie's journey to heal her body and her new course "Your Body is a Person", and much more.
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In this episode, we talk about:
Evangelical speaking in tongues experiences
Cult dynamics and the tipping of Evangelicalism into high control groups
Jamie’s experience exiting a cult and how she healed
Manipulation and the idea of free choice inside a cult
Jamie’s journey back to her body and confrontation with ableism inside spiritual spaces
How to remember Your Body is a Person
Why systems of oppression want to keep you feeling perpetually broken and believing that there is one right way to be a body
Meeting developmental needs of belonging as a neurodivergent
