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When facilitators impose spiritual interpretations on somatic experiences

Our breathwork facilitator said my panic attack was my body releasing old trauma but I know it was because the room was too hot and crowded and now I do not trust my own experience.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The authority of spiritual frameworks is overriding personal bodily knowledge and creating self-doubt.

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