Being in an emotion is not enough. The body has to be there too.

I see it with my clients. 

And I see it in myself.

An emotion arrives — sadness, fear, anger. Intense, real, present. And yet... something doesn't complete. 

The person moves through it, but without relief. Without shift.

Why?

Because they were fully in the emotion, but outside the body.

An emotion is not just a psychological experience. It originates in the body — as tension, pressure, heat, tightness. And when the physical experience is missing, we only have access to the story about the emotion. Not the emotion itself.

I know this from my own experience. When tension wakes me in the middle of the night, something in me immediately wants to escape — tossing, turning, moving. Movement as a way out of what would otherwise have to be fully felt.

But escape doesn't lead to integration.

That's why, in Be True sessions, I place great emphasis on bringing attention into the body — to a specific place, a specific sensation. So that the person doesn't stay only in thought or narrative, but is truly present with what is actually happening inside them.

It's not always comfortable. Sometimes it feels like touching something we have been avoiding for a long time.

But that is exactly where — in the body — things truly change. 

The more we learn to stay present with our bodily experience, the less our nervous system needs to keep repeating old survival patterns. That is the essence of the Be True technique.