Emotional Pain and the Somatic Response

IN PARTNERSHIP WITH UNLIKELY COLLABORATORS

This Perception Box project highlights how emotional pain can intertwine with the physical and what we can learn from both as we navigate it.


Feeling stuck in fight-or-flight? Your body may be trying to talk to you—here’s how to start listening.

Written by Sonia Chien • Illustrated by Olga Kurkina


 

A nurse reexamines her migraines and self-blame—and discovers how childhood trauma reshapes the body, brain, and beliefs.

Written by Laura Onstot • Illustrations by Jon McCormack


As children, we held our emotional pain however we had to at the time. As adults, we can revisit that pain, and feel how it has affected our bodies, to move forward with self-compassion. Explained and demonstrated by somatic psychotherapist Gabriela Ucros, LMFT with Nahima Shaffer.

“The voices, the negative thoughts, the younger parts that hold the pain—they are all part of who you are. They are all part of your complexity as a human being.”

–Gabriela Ucros, LMFT


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