Britt Piper | Author + Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner on Instagram: "Most of what we call symptoms—chronic tension, looping thoughts, shutdown, panic—aren’t random. They’re procedural patterns held in the body, shaped by survival. In Somatic Experiencing, we understand that trauma isn’t in the event—it’s in the incomplete response. The body wanted to run, scream, cry, fight, freeze, or collapse… but it couldn’t. And so those unfinished impulses became patterns. Stored as implicit memory—beyo