The stories we attach to bodily sensations are often formed in childhood, without the full picture — but with support and curiosity, following the body's story lets a new meaning emerge on its own. This clip contrasts that with how medicine works: we apply the meaning from the start. A racing heart during exercise once read as "I'm in danger"; through the work, it became "I'm alive, I'm strong" — but arrived at, not imposed. It lands on a sharp question for clinical care: how often am I the meaning-maker for someone else's symptoms — that knee pain is the arthritis, that back pain is the arthritis — attributing a story to a body that isn't mine?
Part of Roots of Care, a series on whole-person, trauma-informed primary care. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVtaeaNoZCQ4
