The stories we tell ourselves and each other are vitally important. They are the genesis of our actions and our reference point for prioritising where we place our minds and how we use our resources. Story, however, is not just narrative, and the stories we tell ourselves can so easily override the story of our bodies. Developing body listening and expanding our ability to sense the body’s signals in complex and non-judgemental ways can take us towards a way of being that is both hopeful in its outlook and, at the same time, grounded in the reality of the world as it is.
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Eugene Ellis is a psychotherapist, writer and public speaker on issues of race, difference and intersectionality. He is also an Honorary Fellow of the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy. For the past 20 years, Eugene has been the director and founder of the Black, African and Asian Therapy Network, the UK’s largest independent organisation to specialise in working therapeutically with Black, African, Caribbean and South Asian people.
His book, ‘The Race Conversation: An essential guide to creating life-changing dialogue’ (2021), explores the race construct both through its cognitive and historical development and also, more crucially, on the intergenerational, non-verbal communication of race, both as a means of social control and as an essential part of navigating oppressive patterns.
