There's a truth I've come to trust completely after almost twenty years in the healing arts, over a decade of practice, and more than 10,000 sessions: nothing shows up in the body first. By the time a physical symptom appears — tension, illness, pain, a nodule, a flare-up that won't resolve — it's usually the last stop on a much longer journey. The misalignment starts in spirit. It moves into emotion and mind. And only after it's gone unaddressed there does it finally land in