![]() ![]() Don’t turn your back on it thinking it’s crazy. Respect that memory, no matter what form it comes in. “I remember that touch, sound, smell…and I don’t want it.” However, for a survivor of sexual abuse that has overcome and healed from the abuse, you may think you’ve done all the work to be done. says in A Journey to Recovery from Sexual Abuse, “The traumatic and the trivial are the two kinds of information your mind represses.” For whatever reason, you don’t know what your body knows. Sometimes, the memories that our body stores are not always memories that we consciously, as the survivor, remember. We are all unique and it’s in our bodies – our skin, muscles, tendons, nerves – which we actively participate through our day to day experiences good ones and bad. Ever notice how, on a stage full of professional dancers, everyone still moves in their own way? That’s because our cells store memories – information – about our experiences, habits, sensations, everything. Instead, it’s held in your body, all the way down at the cellular level. But the memory is not held in your mind, locked somewhere in the recesses of your brain. Your body, believe it or not, remembers everything. ![]()
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