The Transformative Power of Emotional Understanding | Psychology Today.

Early in the treatment, whenever the patient began to remember and describe the sexual abuse, or to recount analogously invasive experiences in her current life, she would display emotional reactions that consisted of two distinctive parts, both of which seemed entirely bodily. One was a trembling in her arms and upper torso, which sometimes escalated into violent shaking. The other was an intense flushing of her face….
By bringing the emotional experience into language within a holding context of human understanding,  a sense of being can be born, restored, or consolidated