What the Body Remembers
Trauma does not live in the mind. That is the first lie we tell ourselves about it — that it is a mental event, something that happened up there, in thought, in memory, in the abstract country of the past. Trauma lives in the body. It is encoded in muscle and nerve and reflex, written into the physical self with a permanence that ordinary memory cannot match and ordinary will cannot simply override.
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The Crossroads
Every person arrives, eventually, at the moment where two roads diverge — and the brutal truth is that one of them was never really theirs to begin with.
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