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Why grief disrupts your physical boundaries

I walk into walls and trip over nothing since my brother died and I feel like I do not know where my body ends.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Acute loss is destabilizing proprioceptive awareness and spatial orientation as the nervous system struggles to reorganize reality without the deceased person's presence.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Trauma in the body — somatic approaches?”

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