Biography becomes biology

Your biography becomes your biology. Every illness corresponds to a pattern of emotional and psychological stresses, beliefs, and attitudes that have influenced corresponding areas of the human body. This is not blame. It is a way of listening. The story you will not tell is already speaking in tissue. Power that is given away — to a tribe, a lover, a wound, a court of old judges — leaves a vacancy the body tries to fill with symptom. Power that returns home is medicine.