Being in the body requires intimacy with pain

Being in your body is not just about feeling grounded, calm, sexy, peaceful, connected or alive. That is part of it. But being in the body also means being willing to feel what you have spent years trying to outrun. The tight chest. The grief. The anger. The ache. The old fear. The truth that has been waiting for you to stop long enough to hear it. So many of us say we want to be embodied, but what we often mean is that we want to feel the good parts of bei...