Let's get curious about embodiment

Understanding what embodiment means

Chantal Francis

8/24/20231 min read

silhouette of woman jumping during golden hour
silhouette of woman jumping during golden hour

What is embodiment?

When I use the term ‘Embodiment’, I’m talking about the integration of thoughts, beliefs and values into our way of being. It’s no longer about telling ourselves we hold a value/ belief about ourselves, we become that value/belief in our expression.

What does becoming an expression of our values/beliefs look like?

It means that whatever we believe to be true about us/for us, comes through in how we are and everything we create and put out to the world; our relationships to others, to ourselves, our business and what we stand for.

What has embodiment got to do with the Therapy experience?

Sometimes, through our life experience, we can find ourselves embodying beliefs and ways of being that aren’t serving our potential. Within the therapy setting, the first part of our journey is bringing awareness to this, we can get curious about the belief systems fuelling our ways of being and then move towards making new decisions about ourselves and embodying these changes, so we are being the change we want to see and living these changes outside of the therapy setting.

It’s important to note that each person’s embodiment experience is on their own terms and in their own time, and each person’s journey to the fullest expression of themselves, and the evolution of that expression is unique. The value is in the experience of embodiment being our own, and not something we are told to do/told is right for us.