Introduction: The Overlooked Role of the Body in Chronic Pain Chronic pain affects more than 1.5 billion people worldwide and is considered one of the greatest health challenges of our time. Traditional treatments focus on physical injury, inflammation, or degeneration. Yet research shows that many chronic pain conditions persist even when scans or lab tests reveal no structural cause. This is where somatic therapy plays a crucial role — recognizing that pain is not merely a

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Somatic therapy  aims to change how your nervous system organizes  threat, emotion, and connection  —  not just how you manage symptoms when they appear. Coping skills are valuable, but they’re typically state regulators : practices you deploy to get through a wave of anxiety, anger, or numbness. Somatic therapy goes deeper by targeting the mechanisms  that produce those waves in the first place: interoception (how the brain senses the body), autonomic regulation (how safe or

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