Becoming an embodied healing professional begins with a willingness to inquire into the mystery of your lived experience so you can access the intelligence of your body’s wisdom. It takes time, intention and practice to develop as a skilled healing practitioner. Embodywise supports helping professionals to learn from the “inside out,” developing not only therapeutic skills, but also continually refining our most essential tool: our own state of awareness and presence with our clients. The complexity of our current social challenges–including collective trauma, empathy burnout, and implicit bias among helping professionals–calls for a new paradigm for psychological healing that includes three essential elements: