Why Do We Distrust Our Bodies?

Season 2 Episode 25 Jessi dives into the reasons we struggle to trust our bodies as Sensitives. She discusses why relying on an external source to interpret your body's messages isn’t in your best interest and that despite what we have been taught throughout life, your body is not something that needs to be managed or controlled but honored and respected. Jessi gives advice on how to navigate the messages that we receive from our body and ultimately regain trust and connection to the vessel that gives us life.
Topics Discussed:

How did we arrive at a place of distrust?
Who or what does this distrust benefit?
Why our society's simplified approach to the body does not work, especially for Sensitives.
How to regain your natural ability to trust and hear your body.
How to identify where you're distrust and disconnection lies.

Quotes:
"It's like, our body is as a wild animal and we need to domesticate this animal. It's not safe. We don't know what it's going to do at any point. Turn on us. And as a result, there's this fear that's built that prevents us from trusting, from leaning into our experiences from believing that our body actually has the answers - ultimately, identifying with the concept that our body is intelligently and intentionally created in order to sustain itself that our body's always moving towards healing, always moving towards homeostasis and is always on our side."
"We are more complex. It is not a plus B equals C. It's never that simple. And then add on your sensitivity, right. Those that are sensitive cannot even live within that A plus B equals C world. We do not fit into those boxes and those interpreters have no idea what to do with us because they haven't received any training other than what fits their boxes for those that are on the lower end of the sensitivity spectrum."
"But that's always a red flag and it's a mirror back to me that I am starting to treat my body like a robot. I'm starting to treat my body like a product, not like a living, breathing biological system. We need to respect the wildness of our body. We need to respect the natural needs of our body and not see them as a hassle, not see them as something to be managed, and definitely not see it as something to domesticate."
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