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Into Our Bodies

December 6, 2018

In the last blog, I talked about patients who tend to live mainly in their heads.

They can describe a moment when they were angry, the reason why they were angry, and, sometimes, how their anger relates to their upbringing.

I now tend to be more interested in how they experience their anger.

Did the anger register in their bodies, or was it just in their heads?
Did they want to lash out, or pull back into a defensive shell?

Similarly, when they are in my room, I continually bring them back to what they are experiencing somatically.

These patients usually find this focus confronting. No one has been interested in them in this way.

Despite being able to fill the room with thoughts, focussing on their bodies leaves them speechless.

In time, patients begin to see that the body has its own language; tensions in the jaw and chest, butterflies in the stomach, feelings of relief and joy, exhaustion, agitation that stops them relaxing.

It can also hold the horrors of terrible abuse.

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Allan grew up at Belmont, on the shores of Lake Macquarie, near Newcastle, NSW, Australia. In his early twenties, he completed his Commerce Degree with a major in economics and was employed as a management trainee with the BHP Pty Ltd.

Allan decided he was not ready to settle into a career, particularly in the corporate world. It was a life changing moment.

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