30. Learning to Inhabit Your Body

These last few weeks have been a little crazy with a water pipe bursting and our basement flooding, so I've been silent. I've been feeling overwhelmed and anxious, and it's hard to slow down and connect with myself when I'm feeling that way. This week, I share a few paragraphs from Dr. Bessel van der Kolk's book The Body Keeps Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma, specifically the chapter titled "Learning to Inhabit Your Body: Yoga." Dr. van Der Kolk, MD, is a trauma researcher who uses neuroscience and attachment research to discover and develop trauma-informed therapies for children and adults.   When we're stressed--whether that includes deadlines, flooded basements, or worry about the fall semester--it's hard to remember that we should feel our feelings, acknowledge them, and work through them. In this episode, I also share my own experience learning to inhabit my body as an academic and share some strategies you might want to try.