Vol 1, Issue 2 — June 2026

The Body Knows

What the body remembers, the mind cannot lie about.

Editor's Letter

  1. The Body Knows
    The Editor · Editor's Letter
    Editor's letter — June 2026

Deep Dives

  1. What the Chart Misses
    Noah Chen, MD | Primary care physician, Boston, MA · Personal Deep Dive
    Fifteen years of male back pain that was, almost always, something else.
  2. The Trauma His Body Remembers
    Yara Okonkwo, SEP | Somatic therapist, Oakland, CA · Personal Deep Dive
    What I have learned, in fifteen years of somatic work, about how trauma lives in male bodies — and what it takes to teach a fifty-year-old man to feel his own feet.
  3. Twelve Weeks of Feeling Again
    Tobias Reeves | Journalist, Denver, CO · Reported Deep Dive
    Inside a recovery program where men in early sobriety learn what hunger feels like — and what else has been waiting.

Point/Counterpoint

  1. I Learned to Trust My Body's No
    Elliott Park, 47 | Brooklyn, NY · Point/Counterpoint (Male)
    Twenty years of overruling. The slow re-education in listening first.
  2. His Body Talks; I Translate
    Mira Cohen, 44 | Madison, WI · Point/Counterpoint (Female)
    Twenty years of being the wife who reads his shoulders. The gift and the cost of being the translator.

Editorials

  1. Most of the Back Pain in My Practice Is Depression
    Eduardo Vasquez, PsyD | Clinical psychologist, Phoenix, AZ · Editorial
    Why the DSM misses men, and what the cost is — on the exam table, in the pharmacy, and in the morgue.
  2. The Pelvic Floor Conversation Men Avoid
    Rashida Johnson, MD | Urologist, Atlanta, GA · Editorial
    Why "down there is private" includes the man's own body from himself, and what we lose to that silence.

The Raw

  1. Things My Body Started Telling Me at Forty
    Graham Ellis, 42 | Portland, OR · Raw
    A list. Each item one short sentence about a message that arrived after forty — and what it meant.
  2. I Knew Before You Did
    Priya Shankar, 38 | Chicago, IL · Raw
    What I saw in your body, in the months before the diagnosis, the divorce, the breakdown — and what it cost me to be the one who saw.
  3. The Knee That Outlasted the Marriage
    David Okafor, 51 | Houston, TX · Raw
    Eulogy for my right knee — ACL torn in a pickup game in 2003, rebuilt in 2004, finally retired in 2026.
  4. Stop Apologizing to Your Body
    Rashid Davis, 35 | Atlanta, GA · Raw
    A letter to myself, written the year I stopped apologizing to my own flesh for being what it is.