Therapy Chat · Laura Reagan, LCSW-C

482: Embodiment + Disembodiment with Dr. Hillary McBride

May 12, 2025·52 min·5 clips
Discover how staying with painful feelings can unlock a core truth about who we are.
Laura Reagan interviews Dr. Hillary McBride about embodiment and disembodiment in therapy, covering topics like trauma healing, somatic approaches, spiritual abuse, and psychedelic-assisted therapy. They discuss Dr. McBride's research on transformation during the pandemic and her podcast's ethical consent process.

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A body-centered trauma conversation that treats healing as process, not a quick fix.

Therapy Chat takes a close look at body-centered trauma work, moving through somatic practice, religious and spiritual trauma, and the uneasy experience of feeling what lives inside the body. Laura Regan returns to one useful idea: healing is not a switch that flips.

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You want a body-centered trauma conversation that treats healing as a practice, not an off/on switch.

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