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How trauma disconnects us from basic body signals

My body feels like it belongs to someone else after the assault six months ago and I cannot tell if I am hungry or tired or need to go to the bathroom.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Sexual violence severs the connection between consciousness and embodied sensation as a protective mechanism that then prevents recovery and reclamation.

Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Somatic approaches to psychological healing?”

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