It’s quite common for people to experience the same types of reactions and pain again and again. The question I would pose to you is what type of circling back are you doing?

Have you dismissed going for more therapy because you believe it is too taxing?

Does the prospect of dealing with your emotional mess feel like more work than reward?

Before I launch into the merits of body-based emotional therapy, I want to give credit to traditional psychotherapy for all the benefits it provides.

The books, videos and posts that I value most, mirror something that part of me already knows.

Sadly, most people don’t correlate skin eruptions and mysterious pains with their emotional process, or lack there of. They mistakenly perceive the symptoms in their body as random and unrelated.

Healing childhood trauma is a multi-faceted journey. It can be approached in many ways. Therapy is most common.

Everybody adapted to survive his/her childhood. It sounds extreme but it’s true. There are no perfect parents and everyone has some degree of relational trauma, even in happy, well-adjusted families.

People often think that treating naturally means letting the body heal itself. There are situations where the body can heal itself and any form of treatment won’t make much difference.

So many of the medicines that are readily available are suppressive in nature. Analgesics for headaches, anti-inflammatories for joint pain, laxatives for constipation.

I believe the way through is through. What does that mean? To me it means that radical healing requires us to feel the emotions that we have repressed.

Sometimes we need to do some inner archaeological digging to make sense of what’s happening in the present. Why is that reaction or sensation so intense when nothing significant seems to be causing it now?

When we have any symptoms in our bodies, we go to doctors to ‘see what is wrong’, which is a logical first step. We should make use of all the medical knowledge and screening that’s available to us.

Most of us think our symptoms are our problem. If we have a headache, it’s that headache that we want to get rid of.

People with healthy boundaries know their limits. They know when and how to say, “No”. They know when to rest, when to exercise and how much to work.

People have all kinds of ideas about what they will and won’t do but often those personal rules get broken?

Most of us like to know what’s happening. We may feel reassured by having a plan.

Once you have gathered the external medical support you require, turn your attention back within to chart your course of healing.

Intuition is so useful for everyday health and wellness. Turn you attention back to yourself to feel what is right for you.

Everybody has the potential to be intuitive. Your intuition is a muscle, like any other. If you exercise it, it will grow stronger.

We are creatures of habit, emotionally and physically. Symptoms tend to repeat in cycles over time.