@lizasamuellcsw: The tightness in your chest is not “just anxiety.” It may be a conversation your body has been trying to have with you for a very long time. About the stress you keep minimizing. The grief you keep pushing past. The anger you never felt safe expressing. The exhaustion you keep calling laziness. The needs you keep ignoring. The pain you keep trying to intellectualize instead of feel. A lot of people learned how to disconnect from themselves in order to survive. So the body starts speaking through symptoms. Tension. Fatigue. Racing thoughts. Shutdown. Restlessness. Panic. Numbness. Not because the body is betraying you. Because it has been carrying things the mind keeps trying to outrun. And honestly, healing often begins the moment people stop fighting their symptoms long enough to ask: “What is my body trying to tell me?”