A Body That Remembers: Power, Grace, and Feminine Healing!
by Dr. Mensimah ShabazzThere are stories we tell with words—and stories that live quietly in the body.
In this episode at The Round Table, we enter a space of intentional slowness and care, honoring the truth that healing is not something to be forced or rushed. A Body That Remembers: Power, Grace, and Feminine Healing invites us to recognize how women carry memory, resilience, and wisdom not only through conscious thought, but through sensation, breath, and presence.
Many women grow up witnessing strength that is expected but rarely named. Mothers, grandmothers, and caretakers carry families, responsibilities, and grief with little recognition and even less rest. Alongside this inherited endurance lives another devastating truth—sexual violence and violation that imprint themselves on bodies, nervous systems, and self-perception.
And yet, healing remains possible, not because pain disappears, but because wholeness can be restored.
Healing Beyond the Absence of Scars
This episode reframes healing as reclamation rather than erasure. Power and grace are not rewards granted after survival—they are inherent qualities that have always existed, even when obscured by trauma or silence.
Through spiritual framing, we explore how healing is:
- Personal, rooted in the body and breath
- Collective, interrupting patterns of harm
- Ancestral, softening what has been carried across generations.
Each moment of conscious presence becomes an act of restoration.
Embodied Practice: Power & Grace
Listeners are guided through a grounding meditation using Hakini Mudra—a gesture supporting integration between mind, heart, and body—paired with the affirmation:
“I am a woman of power and grace.”
This is not a performance or a mantra to perfect. It is an invitation to feel—clarity without force, openness without self-abandonment, dignity without apology.
Reflective Questions for Integration
The episode offers gentle inquiry rather than resolution:
- Where have women carried pain in silence in your life or lineage?
- When has silence protected you, and when has it delayed healing?
- What beliefs about women’s power are ready to be questioned or released?
These questions are meant to be honored, not answered all at once.
Remembering Who You Have Always Been
To tell the truth—internally or aloud—is not to unravel. It is to reassemble. Naming pain restores agency. Being seen restores dignity. And healing begins the moment we stop betraying our own knowing.
This episode is a threshold between forgetting and remembering.
You are not alone.
Your power is real.
Your grace is enduring.
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