In both eating disorder treatment and other healing spaces, I have often been encouraged to “listen to my body.” My providers and peers have asked me to identify physical sensations that correlate with particular emotional or bodily phenomena; most often, the focus is on identifying and responding to hunger, but I have also been advised numerous times to identify where I feel emotions such as sadness, grief, anger and anxiety physically in my body.
I do not mean at all to dismiss the value of being more aware of physical sensations occurring in one’s body. There have been many times when it has been helpful for me to identify the physical sensations that accompany various emotions.
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