Then I started therapy, and I started noticing the pain in my body. My lower stomach hurt, my lower back hurt, I would get headaches. I went to the worst extremes looking everything up. And then I had to stop and realize, maybe my body’s just saying: Oh, this thing is really painful and you’ve been thinking about it a lot. This is a trauma response, a stress response. It took me so long to realize that the trauma I’ve carried in my body since I was little still manifests in my adult body. My adult body is still trying to tell me things just like my child body was trying to tell me things. What
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