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Why certain places trigger body memories

My back seizes up every time I think about visiting my childhood home for the holidays.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Environmental cues are activating stored trauma responses because the nervous system associates specific locations with past overwhelm or threat.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

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

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