The gap between how you feel and what your body is doing. 🌿 · Dance · Heal

The gap between how you feel and what your body is doing. 🌿

Most of us are pretty good at describing our emotions. Anxious. Calm. Overwhelmed. Okay.

But ask someone to describe what they're actually feeling in their body — as a sensation rather than an emotion — and it gets harder. Is it tight? Heavy? Buzzing? Expanding? Warm or cool?

That gap between emotional fluency and sensory fluency is where so much gets lost. Including the difference between anxiety and intuition — which are both felt in the body, both can feel urgent, and both can be mistaken for each other.

Because here's the thing: your body often knows before your mind does. A gut feeling isn't a metaphor. It's a real physiological signal. The question is whether we've developed enough body literacy to hear it — or whether we're so deep in our heads that the signal gets drowned out by the noise.

Developing that capacity — learning to feel into sensation rather than just naming emotion — is one of the quieter, more powerful things somatic movement work offers.

A question I'm genuinely curious about:

When you've made a decision that turned out to be right — one you felt before your mind caught up — where did you feel it in your body? And what did it feel like?

👇 Drop it below. Even one word or one body part is enough.

And for those of you who love a Poll...

Right now, how connected do you feel to your body's signals?

🔇 Pretty disconnected — I mostly live in my head

📡 I catch signals sometimes but they're faint

🌿 I'm learning — getting better at noticing

🔥 Pretty tuned in — my body speaks and I listen

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The gap between how you feel and what your body is doing. 🌿