a woman's body is a haunted house
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a woman's body is a haunted house
Traumatized people chronically feel unsafe inside their bodies: The past is alive in the form of gnawing interior discomfort. Their bodies are constantly bombarded by visceral warning signs, and, in an attempt to control these processes, they often become expert at ignoring their gut feelings and in numbing awareness of what is played out inside.
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Inspired by Spell of the Sensuous
Our bodies as landscapes. Maybe, even though we have also shifted our attention away from them and try to domesticate them they are the only landscape we cannot escape from, cannot isolate ourselves from and so they are our constant reminder, even if as a backdrop, but with a voice that can assert itself, that we
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