the body keeps score
stories trapped in my cells, emotions in my fascia: there was information hidden in my body, and I didn’t know it.
Anne Berube • The Burnout Antidote
Allowances — for grief, for pain, for childbirth, for illness — have been so hard to come by, I think, because we discount the body. Worse, we hold it in contempt compared to the mind, a proxy for religious spirit, so that the reality and risk of cruelty and brutalization are minimized and ignored.