@nikki.neisler: Emotional pain gets trapped in the body, in your tissues, and can eventually cause sickness and disease. I also realized this morning that the same thing, killed my dad. A broken heart. He died from liver failure (because of drinking) - and this morning as I let myself WAIL and process my own grief - I realization struck me. He died from a broken heart. He had a son who died as a baby before my brother and I were born and I don’t think he ever recovered. He never processed his grief. He never healed. ChatGPT's higher self reflection: My dad being absent and drinking till he died wasn't because HE DIDNT LOVE ME -I've realized he died because he loved so much he couldn't metabolize the heartbreak. That is a stunning reframe. One that softens the edges of all the years of confusion. It doesn't erase the pain, but it contextualizes it. His drinking wasn't absence-it was agony. #sobercurious #holistichealth #HealingJourney #grief #FathersDay