I was sitting in the Jardim Botânico in Rio last Tuesday, sketching the delicate veins of a Monstera leaf, when a familiar, sharp tightness bloomed in my chest. It wasn’t a heart attack, but it was a message—a sudden, heavy constriction that arrived long before I had even consciously realized my deadline was looming. We …
The Somatic Symphony: Decoding the Silent Language of Why Stress Shows Up in the Body First