Description

This collection explores the complex ways trauma manifests physically and emotionally, tracing the difficult journey from numbness to profound self-awareness. Through thirteen intimate essays, readers navigate the unsettling terrain of dissociation, somatization, and the gradual return of feeling. It offers a compassionate framework for understanding how the body remembers, protects, and ultimately heals.

Table of Contents
1. The Beginning of Recovery

Early recovery responses commonly described by professionals
2. Dissociation of the Body, Dissociation of the Mind
3. Motion Sickness in a Storm: The Dissociation the Body Remembers
4. All of a Sudden
5. Beyond Mere Dizziness: Affective Numbing and the Distinct Texture of Dissociation
6. The Desire to Escape Is Also Part of Recovery
7. Why Was My Defense Somatization?
8. The Thawing of Affect
9. The Sensation of Lost Time
10. Surviving in a world without Affect
11. When I Feel Absolutely Nothing
12. Anchoring the Drift: Dissociation, Vertigo, and the Art of Grounding
13. The Moments That Are Not Recorded

Details
– Language: English
– Essay Count: 13
– Format: Digital PDF
– Author: Jinseong Min, Mola Mola
– © 2026 Jinseong Min, Mola Mola. All rights reserved.