Today’s episode explores how traumatic experiences are physically preserved within the body rather than existing as mere psychological failures. Instead of viewing emotional dysregulation as a personal defect or lack of maturity, the author of the source article, Dr. Jaime Hoerricks, argues that these reactions are actually logical survival mechanisms shaped by history and environment. When a person is triggered, they often revert to the developmental state they were in when the original injury occurred, reflecting a physical memory rather than a character flaw. Dr. Hoerricks criticises modern systems that pathologise or moralise these behaviours, suggesting that they unfairly ignore the external conditions that caused the distress. Ultimately, she advocates for shifting the focus from individual pathology to an understanding of how power and context influence human responses.

Here’s the link to the source article: https://open.substack.com/pub/autside/p/gestalt-processors-the-body-remembers

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