You’ve done all the “right” things: talk therapy, journaling, spiritual study. But you still live with chronic pain, anxiety, or autoimmune symptoms. Here’s what most approaches miss: Emotions are not cognitive. They are embodied. You can understand your past and still be stuck in it. Because it’s not about insight, it’s about integration. And integration only happens in the body.

Understanding the Household as an Emotional Kettle Children constantly navigate a complex web of interpersonal and social cues, rules,...