“A lot of my life has been dedicated to inhabiting myself as fully as I can.”

In Episode 6 of The Beauty We Love Podcast, I interview Bodyworker, Somatic Practitioner, and Photographer, Sage Hayes (he/she/them.)

Sage talks about being both trans and adopted, and how this has shaped their experience of belonging in the world.

Sage shares how they started their career as an education director at an LGBTQ Community Center, and developed a curiosity around how people can begin to feel safe in their bodies and heal from the negative impacts of prejudice. 

We learn how Sage later developed this curiosity into a professional somatic healing practice where they support others in exploring questions like:

What can be done to dissipate distress and increase health? Particularly for marginalized people?

How can we build our own emotional and embodied capacity to tolerate this pain and distress?

And how can we help each other build this capacity?

How can we both as individuals and as a collective sit with the discomfort of what is, work together to shift paradigms, and ultimately dismantle the oppressive systems that are the cause of this pain and distress?

If you’ve ever asked yourself these questions, then this episode might be for you.

Be sure to stay to the end of the episode when Sage shares their definition of success (it’s a mic drop moment, for sure.)

To learn more about Sage’s work, go to http://embodiedliberation.com/

Check out Sage’s photography: @sagehayes

To learn more about the Decolonizing Wealth Collective discussed in this episode, go to https://decolonizingwealth.com/