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How siblings with chronic illness can honor different body wisdom approaches

My brother and I are both dealing with chronic illness and we're trying to support each other but I'm realizing we have completely different ways of listening to our bodies — he's very analytical about symptoms while I'm more intuitive, and when we try to share what we're learning it often turns into arguments about whose approach is 'right' rather than actually helping each other.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Family members are letting different somatic approaches become a source of conflict rather than mutual enrichment.

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