I quoted from the self-helpy book I happen to be reading right now, _Your Resonant Self_ by Sarah Peyton, earlier in the thread, but I'm gonna do it again here

I quoted from the self-helpy book I happen to be reading right now, _Your Resonant Self_ by Sarah Peyton, earlier in the thread, but I'm gonna do it again here too, take it or leave it! A lot of the book is about learning to be gentle and compassionate and supporting of yourself. > So why don't people talk about their emotions, if it is so helpful? There can be very good reasons that people have turned off the part of their brain that tells them about their body's emotional response to the world. If a person's skull-brain has no way to respond to messages from the body-brain (for example, if the burning, bubbling, cramping, twisting sensations that come with intense emotions have never been acknowledged, or if every one of these unchanging sensations feels like a driving hunger or a craving for an addictive substance), then a person may need to learn to ignore the body-brain. In other words, if emotions are an unbearable trip to unrecoverable emotional hell, then turning off body sensations can help people manage their world. It can be a solid survival strategy to have no idea what is happening in the body. Connection with the body can be unendurable. So it is important to take this journey slowly and acknolwedge that reading about this information may seem simple and unemotional but can awaken old trauma and restimulate old pain. > If you find this to be true for you, slow down. If we move slowly enough, we can simultaneously build a capacity for resonant, calming response at the same time that we awaken the voice of the body.