13/06/2026
something wild that most people don’t know: babies cannot form memories the way we think of memories. that part of the brain, the hippocampus, doesn’t fully come online until around age three.
so if something hard happened to you before then, you have zero story about it. no images. no timeline. nothing your thinking mind can access.
but your body has it. completely. stored as muscle, as reflex, as the way you flinch before you even register why, as the bracing that happens before your mind catches up.
scientists call this implicit memory, and it lives in older parts of the brain, the amygdala, the brainstem, the cerebellum, places that were already working long before the part of you that tells stories even existed.
which means some of what you carry isn’t a memory you’re avoiding. it’s a memory you never had access to in the first place. it was never lost. it just never had words to begin with.
and that’s exactly why the body has to be part of the healing. because the body has been holding the only copy this whole time. 🤍