Your Body Remembers: Why Somatic Healing Is the Missing Piece in Modern Therapy

We’ve been taught to think our way through healing—to analyze, talk, and understand our pain. But what if the missing piece isn’t in your mind at all? Somatic healing invites you to reconnect with your body, where your deepest memories, emotions, and wisdom truly live. This article explores how trauma imprints in the nervous system, what science (and the Polyvagal Theory) reveals about our body’s responses to stress, and why integrating mind and body creates the wholeness that talk therapy alone often misses.