23/04/2026
I was at a Skye Newman concert recently, and something she said really stayed with me.
She spoke about having had two seizures, and it was a reminder of something we do not say enough:
The body can carry a huge amount of stress before we fully listen. Skye Newman has also spoken publicly elsewhere about past “health scares.”
Stress is not just something we think.
It is something we feel.
Psychology and neuroscience have shown for a long time that stress can show up physically through things like a racing heart, dizziness, muscle tension, exhaustion, poor sleep, digestive issues, and feeling constantly on edge, because the nervous system is built to respond to threat and overload.
The difficulty is that many of us get very good at overriding those signals.
They keep going. Push through. Stay busy. Ignore what their body is trying to communicate.
But the body often keeps the score.
In therapy, part of what we help people do is slow down enough to notice the signs earlier:
when they are overwhelmed,
when their nervous system is activated,
what might be driving it,
and how to respond in a way that actually helps.
That might mean:
understanding the link between thoughts, emotions and physical sensations
spotting patterns like worry, rumination, avoidance or over-functioning
learning grounding and regulation strategies
and building a different relationship with stress, rather than just pushing past it
Tuning into your body is not weakness.
It is a skill.
And for many people, it is the beginning of recovery.
If stress has been showing up in your body as much as your mind, therapy can help you make sense of that.
