Jenny McGrath is a Somatic Psychotherapist and Movement Educator at Indwell Movement, a platform offering online somatic education, movement classes, and healing courses that integrate body‑based approaches with trauma awareness and social justice. She is a licensed mental health counselor, Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, and certified yoga teacher who has spent over a decade researching how movement, dance, and the body can heal trauma and religious sexual shame. Jenny‘s work focuses especially on supporting individuals recovering from purity culture and religious trauma through embodiment, somatic connection, and liberation‑centered healing.

Many people raised in purity culture carry unspoken shame, disconnection, and confusion about their bodies well into adulthood. The messages of control and fear can leave lasting imprints on identity, sexuality, and the ability to feel safe in one’s own skin. How do we begin to untangle those patterns and move toward embodied healing?

According to Jenny McGrath, a licensed mental health counselor, somatic experiencing practitioner, and movement educator, the body itself is the key to reclaiming wholeness. She explains that years of religious conditioning often silence our inner wisdom, leading to dissociation and compliance with oppressive systems. By centering questions like “What are you noticing?” and inviting curiosity about tears, breath, and sensations, Jenny highlights the radical power of listening to the body. She emphasizes that true healing cannot be separated from collective liberation, as marginalized bodies face systemic barriers to safety.

In this episode of With Intention, Liz Frost sits down with Jenny McGrath, Somatic Psychotherapist and Movement Educator at Indwell Movement, to discuss healing from purity culture through somatic therapy and movement. She explores how religious trauma severs our connection to the body, why abstinence-only education harms consent and sexuality, and the role of embodiment in resisting systems of oppression. Jenny also shares insights from her upcoming book on purity culture and white saviorism.