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When siblings experience shared somatic responses to family history

My brother and I both started having sleep paralysis and weird dreams after we cleaned out our childhood home, and we're not sure if we should talk about what memories our bodies seem to be processing.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The body's capacity to hold family memories can create synchronized responses that require brave conversation about what wants to be acknowledged or released.

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“Where Are You with Somatic symptoms — when the body holds the mind?”

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