Swallowed feelings settle in the body

At forty-eight she laughed when she was angry. "What difference would saying it make" was her refrain. Ten years of swallowed sentences settled into her shoulders and neck like callus. When a doctor finally said stress was the cause, she told her husband for the first time: "When you said that, it really hurt me." He sat still for a long while, stunned. Bronnie Ware's third regret was not having the courage to express feelings. Swallowed feelings don't disappear. They become illness or regret.