In recent years, therapy platforms like BetterHelp and Cerebral have risen to prominence, making mental health support more accessible than ever. These companies promise affordable, convenient care, often boasting the ability to connect clients with therapists at the click of a button. But behind the scenes, a troubling story emerges—one of low therapist pay, unsustainable workloads, and a business model that, in some cases, prioritizes profits over people.
Embodiment, in its most simple form, is inhabiting self; though, I like to view it as inhabiting the truest essence of self, so that the entirety of your essence can be permeated and felt from within, experienced through all of the senses and then expressed outside, and laced into the entirety of the way you show up in the world.