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'How Do You Get Out of Your Head and Into Your Body?'

Love your softest, most painful self every single day with reckless abandon.

Heather Havrilesky
Dec 19, 2025
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Garden of caresses (1960), Jane Graverol

Hi Polly,

I have found a lot of solace and resonance in your column and books over the last 10+ years. I am very grateful for this, thank you.

You often talk about getting out of your head and into your body, and I feel like I really struggle with this. I am a male in my late 40s with a son who’s in his last year of…

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