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🧭 “The body is the compass. Awareness is the path.” – Mark Walsh

15 Jul 2025 · 1 min

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A short YouTube video excerpt featuring Mark Walsh discussing the role of the body in therapy for anxiety and trauma. Walsh argues the body is an accessible and effective entry point for therapeutic work—easier and more durable to change than thoughts or spirit—and notes trauma therapy's return to body-focused approaches because nervous-system states cannot be resolved by thinking alone.

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That being said, if you are going to work with something like anxiety, the body is an easy way in. Right? Like, thoughts are hard to change, spirit is very difficult to change, Body is easy to change. Certainly what trauma therapists learned was if they ignore the body, it doesn't work and the body keeps a score. As Mr. Van der Kolk would say, any the body came back into therapy through trauma because they realized, you know what this is, nervous system states. You can't really think your way out of this. And, you know, I work with thinking strategies sometimes as well. It's a nice adjunct. But certainly working with the body is quicker, more direct, deeper, and it's stickier.