The Body Remembers

Long after the danger ends, the body can remain organized around anticipation.

It is not drama. It is architecture. A nervous system built for correction will keep scanning for the next one, even in a quiet room, even on a good day, even when the people around you have no idea they have become the weather.

I could tell you I was fine and mean it in language. The body kept its own minutes.

Healing, if that word is even useful, has not been the erasure of memory. It has been learning to stay in the room with it without letting it run the whole house.