Therapy Restores a Caring Relationship with our Bodies

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Where the addiction has particularly impacted on our body – perhaps through over-eating, drugs, alcohol, self-harm or preventable accidents – we can feel that our body holds the shame of our addictive behaviour.  Our body, at best, becomes a problem to be solved and, at worst, something to be hidden away and ignored as much as possible.

 

But our bodies are the home of our experience.  As babies, long before we had the words and verbal thoughts to describe how we felt, our bodies were providing the experiences of warmth, cold, pleasure, pain, contentment, fear……..  They still do this but we can override it with our words. 

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We need an interested and caring relationship with our body so that we can hear and respond to its messages about what we need, what is good for us, and what to avoid. 

Therapy brings us back into this compassionate relationship with our body so that our dealings with ourself, the world and other people comes from a place of deep self-respect and resilience.