Something I Realized Was Worth Keeping In Mind Lately: Your Body Doesnt Justkeep The Score On Trauma,

Something I realized was worth keeping in mind lately: your body doesn’t just keep the score on trauma, you know. 

Like we’re starting to give some lipservice to the idea that trauma, that stress and harm and damage, live in our “bodies” even if we don’t consciously/cognitively acknowledge them, but there’s two small problems with this idea. 

One is the idea that there is a brain-body split, because there isn’t. Your brain, the place where your cognition occurs, is just another part of your body. Your conscious memory is also part of your body keeping the score. I could go on about this for a while, but I’ll refrain for now. 

Because almost more important to this issue is that your body also keeps all the other scores. 

The smell that calms you down. The fact that you feel better after a big hug. The way your favourite kind of tea helps ground you. The sudden joy at a particular song. 

All of these things also live in your body. Your comfort food being comfort food is a score your body is keeping. How to read. The comfort of a warm bed. All of that knowledge lives in your body, in its memory too. 

fucked up how colors look different depending on what screen you’re looking at them on. that should be illegal I think

guys i just found out about this site that does a daily guessing game, it’s phylogenetic wordle- so fun!!!

Into the Spider-Verse + “I love you”

can i crack open your ribcage and nestle inside it btw. as friensds

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