Anabel Khoo (she/they) is a psychotherapist, facilitator, interdisciplinary artist, and writer dedicated to cultivating holistic collective healing and social justice. They are also a queer, non-binary, diasporic Chinese person, and their lived experience has moved them to help other marginalized people to process intergenerational pain and to fully embody one’s power and worth.

In this episode, Anabel and Eryn talk about:

• Anabel’s journey with healing and somatics
• Coming to believe something through experiencing it in your body
• Creativity & the body
• How their interest in ceremony, ritual, and spirituality came about
• The importance of ceremony and ritual
• Doing ritual only when you feel moved to do ritual
• Somatics & collective liberation & collective healing
• Embodying body and mind at the same time
• The uncomfortable middle ground in healing
• Practicing being with what is totally intolerable
• Fear of stepping into painful places
• Working through the shame of being where we’re at

Blog for this episode: www.living-open.com/blog/anabel-khoo

Check out the Religious Trauma workbook and the Religious Trauma meditation album. Read Eryn's poem, breakfast poem, in orangepeel mag.

Connect with Anabel on Instagram and their website.

Related: Ep. #242: Accessing States of Liberation, Imagination and Possibility Through the Body with Marika Heinrichs