Episode 127: You are a Verb with Melissa Benintendi (Part 2 of a 4-part series)
Today on the Everything Belongs Podcast, Madison is in conversation with Melissa Benintendi.
Melissa Benintendi is an owner and the Director of Clinical Embodiment at Beyond Healing Institute in Springfield, MO. Melissa began her career as a trauma therapist primarily practicing EMDR. She is now an international EMDR consultant and trainer and specifically focuses on practicing therapy with the body in mind. She is a coauthor and trainer of Somatic Integration and Processing, which is a case conceptualization model that teaches therapists to understand their work through the lenses of somatic psychology, interpersonal neurobiology and adaptive information processing models. She is also a cohost and creator of ‘Notice That – An EMDR Podcast’ which reaches an international audience of over 40,000 listeners monthly. She is currently pursuing her doctorate in Transpersonal and Somatic Psychology through the California Institute of Integral Studies. Melissa has also been trained in CranioSacral Therapy and Reiki Energy Healing and utilizes both in her private practice.
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In this episode we talk about:
Melissa’s young life as a missionary kid
Religious trauma and leaving religious cults
Symbolic, subconscious and sensational experiences
Fear of the subconscious - is there risk of believing what we find in the subconscious?
Inherent biases around truth - is truth an absolute?
Role rejection: Shifting out of role identification and into being a verb
Your body is a verb. We are a becoming, flowing, unfolding. An experience.
How to be with fear as we let ourselves be experiments
Letting life live you.
Labels as experiments. Not being threatened with people’s experimentation.
Control, power dynamics and intimacy.
The benefits and limitations of identity.
How lived experience of the body speaks to our neurology
Accessing our creative potential, joy and access to our own embodied experience.
Experimenting with moving in new ways
Understanding embodiment as awakening cellular consciousness
Psychedelics - and when to use them on your journey, and when not to.
Expanding our collective awareness of embodiment - heading towards cellular consciousness.
Living from awe and connection with life.
How to move into our own depths.
Community building
