While your mind insists it has moved on, your body keeps careful score. The shoulder that always tightens before sleep remembers the arguments you never finished. The clenched jaw recalls promises you made to stay strong, even when you were breaking. The way you hug a pillow like a lifeline can trace back to the first time you realized no one was coming to comfort you unless you learned to comfort yourself.

Yet this isn’t a story of failure; it’s evidence of survival. Night after night, your body has done its best to protect you with the only language it knows: tension, stillness, collapse. Listening to it is not self-indulgence; it’s repair. When you adjust the pillow, soften your breath, or let yourself be held, you aren’t just getting comfortable. You’re finally answering a plea that’s been whispering through your muscles for years.