The Body Remembers

“The cure for pain is in the pain.”

Grief does not live only in the mind. It lives in the body.

The tightness in the chest that arrives without warning. The exhaustion that sleep does not fix. The way certain foods taste wrong, certain rooms feel wrong, certain times of day carry a weight that is hard to explain.

The body is grieving even when the mind is trying to move on. It holds the memory of the person, the place, the life that was lost. It has its own timeline, its own process, its own way of mourning.

This is not weakness. It is the body doing what it is designed to do — registering the significance of what has been lost. The body's grief is not something to be overridden. It is something to be listened to, gently, with patience.

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