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You're listening to how to be a better human. I'm your host Chris Duffy. A topic that has come up a lot on this podcast and in my conversations with friends and family off the podcast is the way that our brains and our bodies are connected.

It can be really easy to imagine that our mind, our brain, our perception of reality is floating off somewhere.

That it's not in any way connected to this messy blood and guts filled

body of ours. And however much we want to think that our brain is somehow elevated and

different from the rest of our physical form, it's not, it's connected. And you know that that's true if you are

someone who has ever experienced a mood crash after not getting a full night sleep or picked a fight with a

loved one because you thought you were angry about something and then it turned out you were actually just hungry.

Right, these are all things that we have experienced. It's very relatable because it's fundamental to being a human.

Now at the same time translating that idea that our brains and our bodies are fundamentally linked,

that it's a two-way street, that's a new territory for many of us.

It's certainly new territory for me.

And that is why I think that today's guest, Prentis Hemphill, is so interesting and so important.

Prentis is the author of what it takes to heal, how transforming ourselves can change the world.

Prentis is a therapist who focuses not only on what's happening in our minds,

but also in our bodies, and in the broader world, and in historical context.

Here's a clip from Prentiss's podcast, where they talk about where this journey began.

I decided to become a therapist primarily so that people like me could sit across from someone like themselves.

As a therapist, I was introduced to Sematics and Sematics

taught me the importance of the body and how much history and possibility we hold

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