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Yours Truly, Heidi Lynn's avatar

"Tucked it away, wrapped it in muscle, held it in bone." The gloriousness this sentence must have conjured as it flowed from your fingertips. The whole piece ebbs and flows so elegantly. Bravo! I am a fan!

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Cynthia Bauman's avatar

I second this, wholeheartedly!

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JFT Beach 🇬🇧 🏊 🧘‍♂️'s avatar

I like the style in which you wrote this. It's impactful. The message is a true and honest one; we ignore symptoms at our peril. Thanks for writing this.

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Tracey Stevens's avatar

Thank you 💕

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Kathy Weaver's avatar

I guess this is my new journey, reading your words brought tears to my eyes.. I have to find what that is telling me. 🙌

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Fiona Small's avatar

I can relate to this for sure. I’ve had a lower back pain on and off for years thankfully it usually only lasted a week at most. However in July last year I was out in my garden I could feel my back pain starting but thought I could just do another 10 minutes weeding!! Well that was my biggest lesson my body taught me. I ended up with sciatica which I’d never experienced before, I’ve never felt pain like it. Thankfully after 5months it eased off, it’s not gone completely but I can manage it. Im so grateful to have my life back. My lesson, I now have to acknowledge at 68 that I must listen to what my body is telling me and recognise that it knows better…

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Alex Katsulis's avatar

As someone who went to many doctors and physical therapists until finally realizing the tension was emotional, I can attest to all of that. Love the message to look for the root of the pain, not for a band-aid.

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Sarah Soltow's avatar

Alex, you might be interested in following my series of article concerning the purpose and value of the human fascial system.

Try this one: https://sarahsoltow.substack.com/p/in-the-beginning?r=3axdhy

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Alex Katsulis's avatar

Thanks for passing along! That was really interesting learning about how some of our emotional reactions are built into the actual physical structures of our bodies.

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Sarah Soltow's avatar

Yes. The human fascial system is integral to what I believe is the essence of humanity. Emotional, intuitive, expansive, internal... all of the awareness capabilities that are human are facilitated by the liquid crystal communication processes of fascia. Thanks for reading.

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Florence U.'s avatar

Oh how true this is. I remember when I began to truly pay attention, notice and become aware of this language, when I stopped running away and started really listening to it. It's changed everything for me especially as someone whose nervous system is now heightened. I appreciate your words so much today. Thank you.

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Cath Booton's avatar

I know this to be true - trying to figure out the next step the interpretation . Thanks for writing and sharing, we need to have these conversations

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Mandolin Brown's avatar

Your body does keep the score.

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Sarah Soltow's avatar

Bessel Van der Kolk.... excellent! I have incorporated his work into my series on value and purpose of the human fascial system. Take a look

https://sarahsoltow.substack.com/p/in-the-beginning?r=3axdhy

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katsden's avatar

yes! the fascia, connective tissue, holds so much especially the signals which in the moments of violence was unsafe to allow. lots to breathe into, and the releasing amidst these times feels unsafe/tenuous. thx for this affirmation to keep on keepin’ on 🙏🏼

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Sarah Soltow's avatar

Oh! Music to my ears! So many people are unaware of the human fascial system and its importance in, really, all of what we are. Sounds like you will enjoy my series on Sarah's Substack - all about the purpose and value of this relatively unknown system!

Here is the link to the initial article. It continues from here to discuss all that you are mentioning above. Awesome!

https://sarahsoltow.substack.com/p/the-elevator-speech?r=3axdhy

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Tracey Fenner's avatar

Lovely essay, thank you. I believe there is no swifter, truer way for someone to reach his/her fullest growth potential than through a conscious somatic movement practice, our body has so much intelligence ❤️

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Chrism's avatar

The Lord is waking up his saints. The true children of light that have the invisible law written in their hearts are becoming fully self aware

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Brother🍓 Strawberry's avatar

39 years ago at this moment i was in hospital rehab after a horrific January car wreck that left me in a coma with less than 20% chance of survival. “Doctors” and specialists insisted memory of what happened to me would have been erased by the coma and months of amnesia that followed. Far exceeded all expectations for my recovery but my struggle with crippling pain never eased. Years of acupuncture and EMDR regularly throw my body back into the muscle memory trauma of my two hour struggle trapped in twisted wreckage trying to keep from drowning in the icy mountain stream where my overturned vehicle finally came to rest as well as the unspeakably violent assault i was fleeing when i wrecked. That muscle memory frozen twisted dying in the wreckage has been the root of my nearly 40 years of pain. Now i know what happened that night and who else also knows. Your body remembers what your mind tries to help You survive by forgetting.

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Cynthia Bauman's avatar

Brother Strawberry, I'm new to Substack and found your comment here as I was reading Tracey's beautifully written post. I just wanted to let you know that I am so sorry you went through something this utterly terrifying, and I am glad you have found a way to access the wisdom that your body has been storing. Thanks for sharing your experience with all of us here, this is a story that I will remember.

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Brother🍓 Strawberry's avatar

Again, thank You for the feedback. Was concerned that posting my story as a reply might be seen by the author as an attempt to hijack their work. Trying to figure out how to or if i really want to post a piece/pieces i am writing about that event. Your response is precious encouragement to keep writing.

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Tracey Stevens's avatar

Brother Strawberry - I apologise for my silence… I’m so new to Substack that I haven’t been following the comments; I'm still working on how to use this platform! I certainly don’t think your comment was trying to hijack my work - the opposite in fact, personal stories and sharing only add richness to the deep truth of how and why the body manifests illness and pain. I’m so pleased that it precipitated a creative wave in you. Maybe writing and sharing is a way to release what is held and stuck within you? I am familiar with the ways in which trauma lodges itself in the body and how its tentacles stretch into every part of our lives. My work is about changing the perspective we hold about our physical body and learning to see it as a teacher, changing beliefs, releasing trapped emotions, healing are all part of my world. I imagine you have tried many modalities over the years you've been struggling with this, but if you'd like to be heard in a deeper way, please do reach out and thank you for sharing ❤️

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Brother🍓 Strawberry's avatar

Absolutely no apology needed or due. New to substack here as well. Don’t even know how to post anything other than replies. Striving to be half the writer Kurt Vonnegut assured me i was, have been working on “Reflections On My Death-a work in progress” relating recovered memories of the truly spectacular car wreck and the two hour struggle in the wreckage before falling into a coma as well as the savage assault preceding it all when your posting appeared almost as if intended as confirmation.

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Cynthia Bauman's avatar

Keep writing. You are the only one who can tell your story. I don't know how the author feels, but her wonderful post is what lead me to want to read her comments, and there you were. I see it as her post moved you to share something deeply held within, which was the whole point of the post to begin with. To me, your comment is a compliment.

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Brother🍓 Strawberry's avatar

Thank You for letting me know that someone hears me. Been trying to get someone to hear me for nearly 40 years.

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Nathan Kokernot's avatar

Our pain and suffering then is nothing more than a message to ourselves that we’re not perceiving the world that IS

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Lisa Chambers's avatar

Yes and…sometime the soul in our cells is actually measurable pathology via labs and imaging. Which lets the onus shift from ideas regarding manifesting that allow us to believe we’re in control of chronic pain and illness toward an ethos of pacing and accepting what is. Coping can be improved internally and our bodies remain the imperfect vehicles we’ve been given. 🦋

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Erin's avatar

Your words ring so true to my experience with physical pain. It is the hardest human work to start to hear and interpret the messages that I’ve been dissociated from for over 40 years. These messages were always sent in the form of physical discomfort- something I learned to ignore as a child as there was no space for it. I am just starting to see how to build the space I need to listen.

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Neneh’s Alchemy's avatar

I love this so much ❤️

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Tracey Stevens's avatar

Thank you !... getting used to Substack

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Neneh’s Alchemy's avatar

Likewise. All new to me as well 🙏🏻

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