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When your body's wisdom conflicts with talk therapy approaches

My body holds grief differently than my therapist understands and I need to move and wail but she just wants me to talk about my feelings.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Somatic and cultural expressions of grief cannot be translated into the cognitive frameworks of conventional therapy.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Cultural idioms of distress?”

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