steven budden October 26, 2017 Trauma, The process, Relationships, Love, Knowledge, Healing, Embodiment, Awakening, Anatomy Physical Trauma as Emotional Healing. Case study of a 'broken heart' manifesting as a bruised sternum. steven budden October 26, 2017 Trauma, The process, Relationships, Love, Knowledge, Healing, Embodiment, Awakening, Anatomy One interpretation: The core wound manifested as a physical trauma, because that was what it took to compel him to work on it… physical pain. The true wound was a broken heart. Healing one heals the other, and vice versa.