Interoception is a word many people haven’t heard, but it describes something you experience every moment. As you read this, your body sends you messages about hunger, comfort, tension, fatigue, ...

Every human body hums with quiet communication. Beneath every heartbeat, hiccup, and hangover lies a secret chat line between your brain and your guts. It’s like WhatsApp, but the group chat is you.

At every moment, there is something a person or animal is trying to do (a goal) and a reason they are trying to do it (a context for that goal). In the Affect Management Framework (AMF; Haynes-LaMotte ...