Candace Pert was an American neuroscientist and pharmacologist known for her work on the unity of the body and mind. One of her most famous discoveries was the opiate receptor, the cellular binding site for endorphins in the brain. According to Pert, emotions are not solely the product of your brain, but are expressed, experienced, and stored in what she called your “bodymind.” All of our painful memories—failure, disappointments, suffering, loss—are hidden away or suppressed in our bodyminds, to be retrieved, reformed, and released, or ignored and left to fester, promoting physical ailments
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