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What Your Body Has Been Holding (The Posture of the Wound)

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    What Your Body Has Been Holding (The Posture of the Wound)

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  2. The insight — The body of the person with the self-abandonment wound carries a specific posture: the held breath, the tight jaw, th...

    The body of the person with the self-abandonment wound carries a specific posture: the held breath, the tight jaw, th...

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  3. The truth — What Your Body Has Been Holding (The Posture of the Wound)

    The truth about what your body has been holding (the posture of the wound)

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  4. Key takeaway — The body of the person with the self-abandonment wound carries a specific posture: the held breath, the tight jaw, th...

    The body of the person with the self-abandonment wound carries a specific posture: the held breath, the tight jaw, th...

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The body of the person with the self-abandonment wound carries a specific posture: the held breath, the tight jaw, the shoulders lifted toward the ears, the chronic low-grade muscular bracing that…

 

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