HeyJaredI asked my body
Reflections on body, healing, and creative life through a somatic, feminist, and deeply human lens.
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It's tempting to doubt the body (opens the original)
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Dear ones, It can be hard to stay with our feelings and sensations, so we often give into the temptation to doubt them.My experience with breast cancer deepened my trust in my body. And yet, sometimes, I still find myself getting seduced by the illusion that questioning my body, instead of honoring it, will allow me to escape discomfort.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8r43!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-p
I wrote a book (opens the original)
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Dear ones, I wrote a book.<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="991.6378600823045" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!j-aw!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fima
Fear just needs to know its place (opens the original)
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Dear ones,Many of my closest friends live far away. Some of these relationships are fed by long voice notes back and forth, others by daily exchange of silly memes. With one of them, I have video calls that stretch on for hours. This week, toward the end of our conversation, I mentioned that two women living in Italy had reached out to me because they’re building a support platform for people in cancer remission. Telling my friend about that conversation, I mentioned that after treatment ends, m
Swallowing your tears, choking on your voice (opens the original)
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Lovely humans,A friend was telling me something painful, and as I felt my eyes wet, I watched her lips pressing together, jaw locking, breath stopping. Something in her wanted to move, and something else was working to suppress it.I know the shape of this from the inside. The ache in the throat that contracts. The effort to hold back the tears.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vr_K!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsub
Chasing Calm (opens the original)
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Lovely humans,A regulated nervous system doesn’t always look like calm.<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="981" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!xTjZ!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-
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