Robert and Patrick Connors, the body therapist, now work together in Atlanta, GA, integrating psychotherapy and bodywork. The benefits of massage with survivors is being seen. Bill Moyers presented a five-part PBS series on the connection between the body and the mind. Moyers, a print and broadcast journalist, had done extensive research in this field. He told of women with fibrocystic breast disease being treated through massage and coronary heart disease reversed without drugs or surgery.
Touch is mysteriously therapeutic.
The best form of education about the connection between the mind and the body is sharing with residents and staff my informal notes that I have taken throughout the four years. It is important for residents to connect stressful events, mental anguish and physical symptoms because they are connected to assaults, harm being done to others. In my work with sex offenders, I have found that it is important for them to learn about the mind body connection. Doing so, and practicing appropriate interventions, can lead to a safer community. Working with the body to help the mind allows both the body and the mind to feel.