Change Maker Michelle C. Johnson on Channeling a Book and Healing The Effects of Unexpressed Grief [episode 51]

 
 
 

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Michelle C. Johnson is an author, yoga teacher, social justice activist, intuitive healer, and Dismantling Racism trainer. She approaches her life and work from a place of empowerment, embodiment, and integration. Michelle published Skill in Action: Radicalizing Your Yoga Practice to Create a Just World in 2017; she teaches workshops in yoga studios and community spaces nationwide. Michelle’s new book, Finding Refuge: Heart Work for Healing Collective Grief, published by Shambhala Publications, comes out on July 13th, 2021. Whether in an anti-oppression training, yoga space, individual or group intuitive healing session, the heart, healing, and wholeness are at the center of how Michelle approaches all of her work in the world.

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CW: This episode mentions assault / sexual assault

LISTEN TO HEAR:

  • How Michelle’s newest book was guided by Spirit

  • Responding to heartbreak

  • Remembering your roots, and bringing forth your medicine

  • Michelle shares some stories of personal grief 

  • Integrating grief into healing work 

  • Why we’re resistant to grief 

  • On being conditioned to grieve in isolation

  • Finding freedom and liberation through grief 

  • On calling in support from our guides and helpers 

  • Why our capacity to hold grief is limited 

  • How the Spirit can hold grief, even if our body cannot 

  • On understanding your capacity for grief 

  • Hypervigilance and why BIPOC folks need more space for rest 

  • How our capacity shifts, depending on the identities we embody 

  • On identifying what is grief and how it shows up 

  • Michelle shares her experience of being stopped by the police for no reason

  • Grieving for the end of our life 

  • Acknowledging grief and asking -  is there heartbreak today?

  • On permission to grieve 

  • Cry-constipation

  • On being witnessed and grieving in a community of support 

  • TV as medicine

  • Seeking support for grief and depression

  • The physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual effect of unprocessed grief  

  • Michelle shares about the upcoming 2nd edition of her book Skill in Action  

  • And so much more!

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