What is your first instinct when you are told to “feel your feelings”? Perhaps you think this means mindfulness, or sitting silently and identifying a feeling. Then what? How can we move toward healing by simply identifying a feeling? How do we truly “feel” it? Trauma researchers have begun to explore the complex systems that make up our emotional selves. When we experience something traumatic- these difficult emotions might get “stuck” in our bodies. Imagine you are spending the last five...