Exercise is often framed as something we do for our bodies, but movement can also be one of the ways we care for our mental health, regulate our nervous systems, and reconnect with ourselves.

In this episode of Human After All, Tanisha Christie, LCSW is joined by Dagem Lemma, LCSW therapist, educator, runner, and clinical supervisor at Liberation-Based Therapy, for a deeply reflective audio note on running, embodiment, and healing beyond the therapy room.

Dagem reflects on running not as escape, but as a practice of return. Through his relationship with endurance running, the mountains, his mother’s walking practice, and the realities of moving through the world in a Black body, he explores what it means to show up honestly to the body, to grief, to belonging, and to the world as it is.

This episode invites listeners to consider movement as more than performance or discipline. It can be a practice of presence. A way of listening. A way of taking up space. A way of remembering that we are human beings, not human doings or human fixings.

At its center, this conversation reminds us that healing does not only happen in therapy rooms or perfectly curated routines. Sometimes, it happens when we move, breathe, listen, and return to ourselves with honesty.

Credits

Podcast: Human After All

Presented By: Liberation-Based Therapy

Host: Tanisha Christie, LCSW

Music Credit:

“Better Angels” written, performed and produced by Alexis Hightower

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Podcast Page: www.liberationbasedtherapy.com/human-after-all-pod

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