Fat Accumulation on the Arms

Your arms are what you reach out to the world with. With them you embrace, hold, stretch out, draw close. When tissue accumulates precisely there — at this place of reaching and touching — when your arms become fuller and heavier despite your efforts, despite diets, despite exercise, then a question arises that goes deeper than calorie counting and metabolic rates.

Medicine speaks of genetic disposition, hormonal factors, insulin resistance. All of that has its place. But it does not explain why the body stores there of all places — on the arms. At the place with which you touch the world. At the place with which you take and give. The psychosomatic perspective asks a different question: what your arms hold onto that you could not grasp — what are you cushioning because you once received too little?