This blog journeys into the preverbal body to explore how trauma is inherited, stored, and ultimately transformed through deep listening and embodied healing.

The First Language of the Body

Through Jenny’s sin-eater stories, we follow the lived experience of a two-year-old body that survived life-threatening illness and learned to navigate the world through vibration, resonance, and instinct rather than conscious memory. Long before language forms, the nervous system becomes the first recorder of experience—tracking safety, belonging, fear, and love through breath, rhythm, sensation, and the relational field.

When the Body Becomes the Historian

In the absence of words, the body becomes the historian. Trauma and attachment are written into posture, muscle tone, and physiology, shaping identity before the mind can make meaning. Jenny traces the hidden psychological and behavioural effects of this early imprinting—such as sin-eating, selective silence, the collapse of play, and loss of agency—alongside the unexpected lessons and strengths that can also emerge.

Lineage, Landscape & Living Memory

The blog weaves embodied storytelling, somatic awareness, and ancestral fieldwork. From the Battle of Sedgemoor to transatlantic enslavement and Judge Dread, Jenny explores how generational trauma travels through lineage and landscape. Using marshes, sluice gates, and Neolithic chambers, unresolved experiences are mirrored, translated, and gradually reshaped by the land itself.