EWG :: 16. Grief in our guts

Embodied Writing : Grief Series

We feel grief in so many different parts of us.  Our minds and heads.  Our hearts.  Our arms.  Our legs. Our guts.

Our mind and body, our emotional and physiological experiences, are deeply intertwined.  We feel our emotions in our bodies.  Our bodies physiologically grieve just as our minds do.

We hold so much in our bodies, and our guts, our digestive system, is where we can often feel our emotional pain most of all.  We can lose our