Have You Ever Betrayed Your Own Body? | Somatic Dispatches 16
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Have you ever betrayed your own body? Withdrawn awareness from your felt sense — that quiet inner signal of rightness — and never quite found your way back?
That's where I've been. For 50 years.
In my teens, my felt sense told me something I couldn't bear to trust. So I stopped listening. My body, confused by the withdrawal, eventually stopped talking back. What replaced it was ambiguity. Bewilderment. A kind of inner silence that still hasn't fully lifted.
For the last 15 years I've been trying to earn that trust back. Through Focusing. Through Tension Resolution Systems. Through learning to observe what arises in me without being absorbed by it. The progress is real — but slow. And the attrition is its own kind of toll.
What I know now: the body doesn't forget the betrayal. But it doesn't give up on you either.
If any of this is familiar — you are not alone in it.
This is Somatic Dispatch 16 — part of an ongoing series documenting the lived experience of rebuilding mind-body connection through ExistentialNeurobiology
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