09/25/2026
What else was happening when you got hurt?
We tend to look at an injury as a purely physical event — the fall, the impact, the tissue that was strained, the place that still hurts years later.
But you weren’t just a body in that moment.
You were also experiencing something.
Stress. Fear. Anxiety. Grief. Overwhelm. Uncertainty. Maybe something completely unrelated to the injury itself.
And sometimes, even after we’ve done all the “right” physical things, the body still seems to hold onto that moment.
There are entire books written around the idea that the body holds our experiences — The Body Keeps the Score being probably one of the most well-known.
And in my own life and in working with other people, I’ve experienced the somato-emotional side of healing again and again. A physical restriction begins to release and suddenly there’s an emotion, a memory, an image, or a moment in time attached to it.
You can take that rabbit hole even further. Masaru Emoto famously explored the idea that words, intention and emotion could affect the crystalline patterns of water when frozen. And when you remember how much of our bodies and tissues are made of water… I think it opens up some really interesting questions about what the body may be capable of holding.
Either way, I think the question is worth asking:
If an old injury isn’t fully resolving, what was happening in your life when it happened?
What were you feeling?
And have you ever actually gone back and allowed yourself to process that chapter — not just rehabilitate the body part?
Sometimes healing might require tending to more than the place that hurts.
