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Why Survivor Guilt Lives in the Body Not the Mind

I cannot stop replaying that moment when I could have saved him and I know logically it was not my fault but my body does not believe it

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Somatic imprints of responsibility and guilt bypass rational understanding, requiring body-based processing for resolution.

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