What if you saw your body as a someONE instead of a someTHING? What if you had strategies to remove stuck trauma in your body and feel more at home in your body? What if you were able to use connection and community to find even more empowerment and joy in your body? These are just a few of the powerful and important questions we address in our interview with Dr. Hillary McBride.

Dr. McBride is an expert in embodiment and is one of our most trusted teachers when it comes to reconnecting to our body. She brings her own experience with embodiment and current research together with practical steps and compassion to show us all that we can have a real and true relationship with our body as we walk through life.

This is a conversation every woman needs and we are honored to bring you our interview today with Dr. Hillary McBride.

Dr. Hillary McBride is a registered psychologist, a researcher, and podcastor, with expertise with trauma, embodiment, spirituality and mental health, psychedelic therapies, and women's body image across the life span. Her first book, Mothers, Daughters, and Body Image: Learning to Love Ourselves as We Are, was published in 2017; Embodiment and Eating Disorders: Theory, Research, Prevention, and Treatment, which was published in 2018. Her bestselling book The Wisdom of Your Body: Finding wholeness, healing and connection through embodied living came out in the fall of 2021, Practices for Embodied Living was released early 2024. Her next book Holy Hurt: understanding and healing from spiritual trauma, launched April 2025. She is on faculty at Trinity Western University and the University of British Columbia, she is an ambassador for Sanctuary Mental Health, and the host of CBC's award winning podcast Other People's Problems- season 5 out May 2025. Hillary makes her home in the pacific northwest in British Columbia, Canada- she can often be found by the ocean, or with a cup of chai in hand.

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