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If You Feel It in Your Body, Start Here

An Orientation to the Living Terrain

Chelsea M. Thacker · February 25, 2026Embodiment · Nervous System · Orientation · Healing · Systems Thinking

An Orientation to the Living Terrain

This earlier essay is still published on Medium. This page holds its place in Living Terrain, where it connects to the rest of the work.

Where this sits

Charted in the Atlas as evidence in Why does my body react this way? — at The Body.

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