For a long time, I mistook discomfort for a sign to stop. This piece explores the difference between true protection and the nervous system defending against what it doesn’t yet have capacity to feel.

I thought I had already processed the pain—but my body had saved part of the story for later. In a recent session, I felt what happens when something unfinished finally asks to be felt.

A sudden accident threw all my new year plans out the window — but it also revealed, in real time, the somatic intelligence I’ve built over years. What does it mean to have a body that can meet shock, change and discomfort?