After a long stretch of symptoms, it is natural to start treating your body as an opponent — something to push through, outsmart, or override.
That posture is exhausting, and it rarely gets you better information. A body that feels argued with tends to hold on tighter.
Listening sounds passive, but it is not. It means noticing what eases and what escalates, which hours are kinder, what your tightness seems to be protecting.
You do not have to like what your body is doing to be curious about it. Curiosity alone changes the conversation — and the conversation is where understanding begins.
