What Dr. Candace Pert Discovered About Emotions and Health

In this solo session, host Gwen Mitchell explores the groundbreaking science of Dr. Candace Pert and her landmark work on Molecules of Emotion— and what it means for Black and African American women navigating health, healing, and cancer.

What You'll Learn

• What peptides are and why they matter for your health
• The story of Dr. Candace Pert and her discovery of the opiate receptor in the 1970s
• How emotions create real chemical messengers in the body — and travel to every cell
• What happens when emotions get chronically blocked and how it can affect the immune system
• Why releasing emotions (tears, laughter, honest conversation) supports the body's capacity to heal
• The concept of the BodyMind — one integrated system, not two separate things
• Three practical steps you can take right now to begin supporting your emotional and physical health

Three Places to Start

1.     Give yourself permission to feel — fear, grief, anger, exhaustion, hope. Journal, allow tears, use prayer and creative expression to move emotion through the body rather than storing it.

2.     Change the conversation with your body — notice how you speak to yourself. Begin to introduce something softer: gratitude, gentleness, love. Your body hears every word.

Come into community — human connection changes our chemistry. You are not meant to walk this road alone.

Featured Work

• Molecules of Emotion by Dr. Candace Pert

About the Sponsor This episode is sponsored by Moyo Institute, Inc., a nonprofit offering heart-centered educational experiences, and the Lloyd Symington Foundation, which supports visionary grassroots cancer programs.

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