The Healing Connection
VICKY DAWKINS
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How Stress and Emotions Affect the Body: Understanding the Mind-Body Connection
Our emotional wellbeing and physical health are so closely connected. When we experience times of prolonged stress, anxiety, unresolved emotions or difficult life experiences, our nervous system can remain in a heightened state of alert. Over time, this constant state of survival can begin to affect how we feel physically as well as emotionally.