Words From This Body | Ailey Jolie

Words From This Body | Ailey Jolie

Your Body Keeps the Score Changed How a Generation of Women Understands Their Own Bodies

The idea that your body stores your trauma, that your body keeps the score, rests on a misreading of one organ.

Jun 23, 2026
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This misreading has changed how a generation of women understands their own bodies.

As a somatic psychologist, I know that the metaphor that brought the world’s attention to my field also got the scie…

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