The Separation of Emotional Pain and Physical Pain

Pepper Schwartz: Pain can separate emotional, physical and spiritual pain. She says trauma takes up residence in our body; we don't pay attention to it because we think if we could talk our way out of it, we'd be fine but we're not. We find that this separation takes place in all kinds of ways, she says. The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk is a beautiful take on what it means for us to pay attention to how involved the body is in everything that we do.