The Body Holds Emotion—The Page Makes Room

There’s a point where words just stop working. You feel pressure in your chest, tightness in your throat, tension in your gut—but when asked how you’re doing, all you can manage is “fine.” The emotion doesn’t disappear. It just has nowhere to go.

This week, we’re working with what’s unspoken—the buildup your body has been storing. Not by analyzing it. Not by naming it. But by creating a structured, embodied pathway for it to move. Drawing becomes that pathway. Not to explain, but to allow. Not to perform, but to release. Through breath, gesture, and mark, we make room for what hasn’t had space.

In this episode:

• Why emotional holding shows up in the body before the mind
• How the page becomes a safe container when you don’t have one
• What happens when you release pressure instead of keeping it in

Want to go deeper?

Join me for the live BBMM session on September 6 where we’ll work with emotional holding directly through Body, Breath, Movement, and Mark. And in October, the Shift series opens—a four-week journey into release, containment, and presence through somatic drawing.

No performance. Just a breath, a gesture, a mark.

Keep drawing,

Eileen

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