Coming Home to Your Body with Dr. Hillary McBride
It really is a kind of coming home to ourselves that happens when we learn to separate what other people think from what do I actually think and what do I feel like on the side of me?
about hillary
Dr. Hillary McBride is best known as co-host of the Liturgists podcast and host of the CBC podcast Other People’s Problems. However, her day to day work and years of training has focused on research and clinicaly work at the intersection of spirituality and mental health, psychological trauma, body image, eating disorders, sex and sexuality, and feminist approaches to psychology. Her first book, Mothers, Daughters, and Body Image: Learning to Love Ourselves as We Are, was published in 2017; her next book, This Is My Body: Embodiment and Why It Matters for Just About Everything, will be out in 2021. She has been recognized by the American Psychological Association, and the Canadian Psychological Association for her research addressing our relationships with our bodies across the life span, and how to make a home within our bodily selves. In Elementary school she was cast as "sheep #1" in the church nativity production, and her 2020 resolution was to eat more tacos. Hillary makes her home in Vancouver, British Columbia.
In this episode, you’ll hear:
While her parents were therapists, Hillary chose to go a different route and study violin in college but eventually found herself drawn into human behavior studies. (9:02)
How the rejection to midwifery school opened the door to psychology, where she is with people in the midst of an unraveling and an awakening at the same time. (10:20)
Part of trusting your body is to stop seeing the body just as an image, instead see our bodies as living and the place where our self resides. (14:35)
Examples of learning how to come home to your body, tune into what your senses are revealing instead of focusing on appearance based cues. (15:30)
Hillary’s first book began as her master thesis paper turned into a community based format so information that can give us more power is accessible. (21:10)
3 of the biggest things Hillary and her research team discovered during their research about body image that surprised them. (23:49)
Research revealed loving your body is deeper than your image, women saw their physicality, freedom, power, and more tied to their ability to love their bodily selves. (25:56)
Different ways to reconnect with your body to become in tune with the activities, foods, and situations that bring joy or pleasure. (28:45)
There is a cultural history in the Western World that is important to know because it is an inherited legacy that impacts the journey to reconnect with our bodies. (34:14)
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