A core idea from polyvagal theory and somatic work: everything has meaning. You might not know the medical diagnosis for someone's pain, but it has meaning in their life — a reason it's showing up, something adaptive in it, even when it's causing harm. This clip offers a different way to meet a symptom: not rushing to suppress the high blood pressure, the depression, the pain, but pausing to ask what it's trying to communicate. Is there a need going unmet? Something in the larger world landing in the body? Not the analytical hunt for a reason — just the willingness to be with people in that question.
Part of Roots of Care, a series on whole-person, trauma-informed primary care https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVtaeaNoZCQ4
