Status Updates From When the Body Says No

Only read the first chapter and it already brought me clarity. It made me feel seen and validated in both an uncomfortable and comforting way. A strange contradiction that brings clarity to a confused mind.
“Shame is the deepest of the “negative emotions,” a feeling we will do almost anything to avoid. Unfortunately, our abiding fear of shame impairs our ability to see reality.”

“Repression — dissociating emotions from awareness and relegating them to the unconscious realm — disorganises and confuses our physiological defences so that in some people these defences go awry, becoming the destroyers of health rather than its protectors.”