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The Body Remembers

  "The body remembers what your mind forgets" Martha Manning Seems that lately I have been sharing this quote with many clients. Whenever I hear a client say something like "I don't even know why I was so upset", "I don't know why I feel so depressed" or "I don't know why I am so anxious nothing has happened or changed" I find myself sharing this quote as I try to shed some light on "why" they (we) seem to experience anxiety, stress, anger and/or depressed mood seemingly "out of the blue" (or with severity without any identifiable reason or stressor). I go on to explain how often times uncomfortable, distressing and/or traumatic experiences earlier in our lives and specifically in childhood, get "absorbed by our bodies, into the cells of our bodies" these experiences get emotionally imprinted and later become an automatic physiological response that gets triggered by what often appears as a "random&q