Today’s episode examines an essay titled “Beyond the Couple: The Body Knows First,” authored by Jaime Hoerricks, PhD, focusing on Gestalt Processing and the Felt Architecture of Relationship. The central argument is that the physical body often recognises safety and forms meaning in relationships before conscious thought or language can articulate it. This “arrival without explanation” is described as a subtle, non-dramatic shift—a quiet easing where the body settles, and internal threat assessment ceases. This pre-linguistic recognition provides a sense of coherence, or “okayness,” that precedes social narratives and the rational search for explanations about the relationship’s nature.
Here’s the link to the source article: https://open.substack.com/pub/autside/p/beyond-the-couple-the-body-knows
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