Understanding and changing prejudice and racism through the body with Luis Mojica and team
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“Anti-racism without the body may be futile because it’s just a concept, a performance, an identity. I can claim to not be racist. I can want to not be racist. But what about my body?” That was part of Luis Mojica’s invitation to me to join him on his podcast, Holistic Life Navigation, to discuss the power of healing prejudice, racism, and discrimination through a somatic lens.
On this episode, I’m sitting down with Luis Mojica, a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, herbalist, holistic nutritional counselor, and life coach. We’re joined by his team Camille Leak and Marika Malaea to explore the concept of over-couplings, and how shame around our biases prevents us from releasing our racist tendencies, beliefs, and actions.
Join us this week as Luis, Camille, Marika and I share our lived experiences of over-couplings and why somatics shifts our ability to sit with these big conversations. We’re diving into why most people won’t ever enter this territory, how shame leads to performative allyship and fawning, and why it’s not possible or necessary to exorcise all of your unconscious biases.
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What You’ll Learn from this Episode:
What over-couplings mean and our lived experiences of over-couplings.
The importance of understanding the differences between bias, prejudice, and discrimination.
Why most people won’t enter the territory of discussing prejudice and racism.
How innocence can be used as a justification to not get curious about our blind spots.
Why the somatic piece shifts our ability to sit with these conversations.
How the mechanism of shame leads to performative allyship and fawning.
Why it’s not possible or necessary to exorcise all of your unconscious biases.
Our recommendations for having more of these kinds of conversations.
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