Question 1

Where in your body do you feel the effects of stress most reliably? Not in the moment of acute stress but in the low-level persistent version? Name the location precisely. *(Listening for: somatic awareness and localization, the body-map the reader can construct from their own observation.)*

Question 2

Is there a physical response, a pattern in your body, that appears consistently in specific emotional or relational contexts? What is the context, and what does the body do? *(Listening for: the body's reliable signaling in emotional situations, the somatic marker system the reader can start to read.)*

Question 3

Think about something your body carried for years before you were ready to name it. What was it? *(Listening for: retrospective somatic awareness, the reader's existing knowledge of body-memory even if they have not yet framed it this way.)*

Question 4

Are there physical symptoms, fatigue, tension, digestive disruption, recurring minor illness, that arrive without obvious current cause? Is there a history those symptoms might be drawing from? *(Listening for: the connection between current somatic experience and unacknowledged historical material.)*

Question 5

If your body could speak one sentence about what it has been carrying, what would it say? *(Listening for: the imaginative bridge to somatic literacy, the capacity to give language to the body's record.)*