Have you ever felt a deep sense of emptiness? Almost like this intangible longing for something more? Maybe you’ve felt it and tried to fill the emptiness with more and more things. You keep your schedule busy, you work towards promotions and academic achievements. Or maybe, like our guest today, you fill the void with less socially acceptable addictions, such as alcohol and heroin.
Today I am talking to Halie Devlin a somatic and sober coach and embodiment expert about her journey of recovery and reclaiming wholeness. In medicine, we tend to be wildly disembodied. As Halie puts it, we “glorify the cerebral”. Meaning that we put rationalization and intellect above all else. We ignore signals from our body like hunger and thirst so we can make it through long shifts.
We live almost exclusively through our minds and miss out on all the knowledge, wisdom, and joy that comes from living in our bodies. In today’s episode, we have an incredible conversation about the problems with living disembodied and how to start practicing embodiment so we can reclaim a sense of wholeness in our lives.
GUEST LINKS:
The Embodied Recovery Community
www.sacredgroundingwellness.com
Life After Medicine explores doctors' journey of finding purpose beyond their medical careers, addressing physician burnout, career changes, opportunities in non-clinical jobs for physicians and remote jobs within the healthcare system without being burned out, using medical training.
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Life After Medicine explores doctors' journey of finding purpose beyond their medical careers, addressing physician burnout, career changes, opportunities in non-clinical jobs for physicians and remote jobs within the healthcare system without being burned out, using medical training.
