Welcome to Truths Our Bodies Remember

Wayne Turner

27 Jul 2025 — 1 min read

Hi folks. Wayne Turner here. Wry Banter, my publisher, was kind enough to give me a very nice send off to explore a more serious side of my psyche. His Substack post can be found here. To say that I am grateful is a huge understatement undeserving of his support and forbearance. I hope you will read and comment about his irreverent, snarky posts as you feel led—most of which are free.

Welcome to my Ghost publication Truths Our Bodies Remember where I explore and attempt to expose those memories hidden from our consciousness that our bodies cannot forget.

My personal experience with this phenomenon is a rather large scar on the outside of my left, lower leg. I have no memory of what caused that scar. I vividly remember my mother asking many times how I got it after a weekend visit with a relative. She described it as an angry, red, weeping, burn-like wound when she first saw it after I got home from the visit. I was ~7 years old at the time. You would think such a traumatic event would be a painful memory. But I did not remember it then, and I do not know—in my mind. But my body remembers.

Almost as if a painful prompt for starting this publication, I suffered some serious second-degree burns on my right wrist about a month ago when attempting to place a lamb chop in 500 F cooking oil - ouch! This incident did not jog my memory of the earlier incident though.

Wouldn’t it be nice to interrogate our bodies’ forgotten wounds about their origin? That is what Truths Our Bodies Remember is all about - interrogating the historical record to discover hidden truths that may have been so traumatic that our minds blocked them out. Or worse, they were silenced without our consent.

The title of this publication is the subtitle of my upcoming book, American Democracy Through the Looking Glass in which I search the history of the American experiment in democracy and compare it to what it is today.

I hope you will join me on my exploration of historical as well as recent truths our bodies remember.

—Wayne

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