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Check out my YouTube channel which covers all things embodiment, well-being and personal transfromation

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Embodied Being Blog 

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What becomes available through embodiment work (as backed by research)

Self-confidence and agency

Honouring the body’s wisdom, capability to accomplish goals. Feeling that your movements and choices belong to you, with the resilience to meet stress or fatigue without losing ground.

Clearer boundaries

Embodiment helps you feel what's right for you. It means recognising where you end and others begin, as a natural expression of self-respect. 

Improved self-esteem and body image

Embodiment makes you less vulnerable to measuring your worth against external standards, living in your body as your own experience, rather than an object to be judged.

Overall life quality and satisfaction

Research after research demonstrates that life gets better when we practice embodiment and feel connected to ourselves.
 

Self-compassion and reduced self-criticism 

By fostering a respectful and loving relationship with your body, you naturally disrupt the harsh, judgmental internal dialogue that typically undermines self-compassion.

Body connection and comfort

Embodiment means feeling genuine sense of comfort, safety, and joy in your own skin. Feeling at home in your body rather than alienated from it.

Connection to your desires

By reclaiming your body's signals as valid not something to suppress or earn, you learn that you are entitled to your own physical, relational, expressive and sexual desires.

Attuned self-care

Learning to sense what you actually need and responding with care, rather than following rigid rules, leads to increase sense of wellness.

Linardon, J., Moffitt, R., Anderson, C., & Tylka, T. L. (2024). Testing for longitudinal bidirectional associations between self-compassion, self-criticism, and positive body image components. Body Image, 49, 101722.

 

Lundh, L. G., & Foster, L. (2024). Embodiment as a synthesis of having a body and being a body, and its role in self-identity and mental health. New Ideas in Psychology, 74, 101083. 

 

Munroe, M. (2022). Positive embodiment for wellbeing researchers and practitioners: A narrative review of emerging constructs, measurement tools, implications, and future directions. International Journal of Wellbeing, 12(2).​

 

Sundgot-Borgen, C., Stenling, A., Rosenvinge, J. H., Pettersen, G., Friborg, O., Sundgot-Borgen, J., ... & Bratland-Sanda, S. (2020). The Norwegian healthy body image intervention promotes positive embodiment through improved self-esteem. Body Image, 35, 84-95. 

 

T.L. Tylka, N. Piran (Eds.), Handbook of positive body image and embodiment, Oxford University Press, New York, NY (2019), pp. 11-21

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Reading list

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The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World
David Abram

A wonderful introduction to ecological thinking and our deep belonging in more-than-human world. The book explores the deep relationship between human cognition and the natural environment.

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Embodiment - Moving beyond mindfulness, 
Walsh Mark

A great general guide to the philosophy behind embodiment, some practices and a deeper exploration of what embodiment has to offer.

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Green Psychology: Transforming our Relationship to the Earth
Ralph Metzner

The book offers a gentle introduction to eco-psychology and uncovers the ideas behing the deep belonging in the wider web of life

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Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma, 
Peter A. LevineAnn Frederick

Seminal work from the legendary Peter Levine. Stuck trauma affects all of us and this book takes the somatic approach to help shift it out of the body.

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Focusing, 
Eugene T. Gendlin

The classic guide to a powerful embodiment technique that can increase your felt sense and lead to personal transformation

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The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma, 
Bessel van der Kolk

Oldie but goldie. An important book about the mind-body connection and how trauma is stored and manifested in the body. 

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