Quotes from David Emerson

Curiosity helps to create emotional distance in which people are able to "just notice" their internal states, without taking immediate action to try to shift these states.

This should be of no surprise when we realize that a common denominator of all traumas is an alienation and disconnection from the body and a reduced capacity to be present in the here and now.

You know that you should not feel this way, but your body keeps getting hijacked into feeling intolerable sensations and emotions.