Some parts of grief don’t live in words. They live in the body.

In this conversation, Patti sits with therapist Jessica Westover to explore the connection between emotional pain and physical experience. Together, they talk about how grief and trauma can show up in ways we don’t always recognize, including tension in the body, disrupted sleep, and a sense of feeling stuck even when we can explain what we’ve been through.

Jessica shares insights from both her professional work and her own lived experience, offering a deeper understanding of why talking about grief is not always enough. They explore the role of movement, mindfulness, and alternative therapeutic approaches in helping process emotions that feel difficult to access.

This episode offers a different way of understanding grief, not just as something we think about, but as something we carry physically, and something that may need to be felt, moved, and gently worked through over time.

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