The Wisdom of Your Body by Hillary McBride

Author:Hillary McBride
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2021-09-08T00:00:00+00:00

Figure 4

When we are able to choose kindness or curiosity to at least interrupt the second arrow, it looks like the progression in figure 4.

This new way of responding builds confidence in our ability to respond to our pain, helps us begin to heal our relationship with ourselves in a more global sense, and starts to reverse the pain cycle by undoing the tightness, fear, and avoidance we experience in the presence of pain. And when pain comes up again, we know we have agency in the process: we can choose how we respond to it. That makes pain less scary and hopeless, and it makes it easier for us to refrain from picking up the second arrow. You might remember from chapter 3 that having agency over our bodies is one way to heal from trauma. By not adding more distress to our bodies, we can make space to heal what is already there without heaping more pain on top of it. Although pain may still be there, we can learn to respond in ways that don’t cause more pain.

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