Ep 33 "Mind-body healing" with Rachel Otis

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Hey peaches!

This week I am talking to Rachel Otis! Rachel is a Somatic Therapist, Yoga Teacher, Abolitionist, Writer & Pleasure Activist who works directly, compassionately & non-judgmentally with the mind-body connection infusing sessions, groups, retreats, & articles with radical self-love, exploration, and expression! Rachel provides healing pathways of somatically-oriented coping tools and resources including yoga, art, supportive self-touch, guided meditation, joyful movement, vocalizations, exploring imaginational realms, and breathing techniques.

Rachel has a Master’s Degree in Counseling Psychology with a concentration in Somatic Psychotherapy from the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco, and works on a sliding-scale, tele-therapy basis to provide accessible sessions to clients worldwide. Rachel also offers: virtual book clubs, live somatics + yoga classes, full and new moon workshops, group therapy, Diversity & Inclusion trainings, oracle card readings, and will be re-launching their stateside & worldwide Resiliency Retreats once it is safe to do so!

Bear with our tech during this episode, I promise it’s worth it! In this conversation, Rachel shares their experiences in their body, how internalized fatphobia shows up for us, their thoughts on things like intuitive eating and HAES, what is somatic therapy, how it works and who it’s for, how we can reconnect with our bodies, the really incredible ways Rachel supports her patients and her dedication to making mental health accessible.

TW: terms like overweight and obesity

Rachel has is generously offering her journal to the Peach, Please! listeners for $30! You can get yours by sending your payment to Rachel's venmo (@Rachel-Otis-Therapy) or paypal ([e-mail]) and in the message write "journal + your email address" and Rachel will send that to you in a PDF format! Rachel also has a bipoc therapy scholarship fund to keep supporting scholarships for bipocs who need them, and you can make any donations to that via venmo or paypal as well.

You can connect with Rachel on Instagram @somewhere_under_the_rainbow. Check out Rachel's highlights over on their Instagram page to find a number of mental health professionals. Also, Rachel was recently featured in a Nylon magazine article on this topic: https://www.nylon.com/beauty/how-to-find-body-positive-mental-health-practitioners-and-resources

You can read Rachel's blog at rachelotistherapy.blog.

The Loveland foundation is created to support female-identifying black individuals in seeking therapy.

And you can connect with me in the following ways:

IG and Twitter @katieiswinnen

Email me! [e-mail]

Bye peaches!