A short monologue exploring why people choose unhealthy coping behaviors: under stress or feelings of shame the body experiences rigidity or numbness, and without ways to reconnect to the body people pursue behaviors that reinforce negative core beliefs about themselves.
Most of us go to things that are not quite healthy. When we are feeling some level of stress or difficulty, when we are feeling some level of shame and condemnation in our bodies, like we're looking at ourselves and saying, I'm so unwanted. I'm so screwed up. Part of what our bodies are feeling is a sense of rigidity. It's a sense of know we might be going numb. And if we don't have a way to come back into our bodies and to restore it, we are going to pursue behaviors that reinforce those core beliefs about who we are.
