01/04/2026
reintegrating the body (as a process)
truly feeling your body for the first time,
in a long time, can be scary
living with chronic pain, disability, or trauma for months or years creates a pattern tension that can make embodiment feel unsafe.
as a form of survival, you may have had to partially disconnect from your body to "feel less"
dissociation and fragmentation from the body isn’t a failure of embodiment—it’s a skill.
societal norms and expectations of what your body "should" look or feel like or be capable of can quietly take up residence in both mind and body.
our bodies are intelligent and aware. Even when it feels like your body is working against you—the pain, the guarding, the numbness, the restriction—these are not betrayals. they are strategies meant to keep you alive.
returning to your body is possible.
some may call it "healing", although, in this context
I am referring to reintegration of the body, as a process -
requiring patience, love, time, listening, and curiosity.
how?
name that slowness is success.
restore agency -
normalize the truth of what is being felt (numbness, resistance, nothing happening)
reframing - "my body isn't broken. it is organized this way for a reason."
together, slowly, safely and with patience - we can begin to assist the parts that checked out (out of necessity) to return home (in their own time).
this form of bodywork is calling you back home.
my body is my home.
this body is mine.
I can build the capacity to be with all of myself.
