Symptoms

Your symptoms are a sign that your body is WORKING. 

They are a sign that your being is healthy enough to respond even if it’s uncomfortable.
 
We have to change the way we look at symptoms and the language of the body. Change the way we look at ourselves to better understand our healing.

For any individual to experience pain or symptoms does tell me a lot about their vitality and the distance we have to travel to obtain true health.

A symptom arises from your physical body’s ability to compensate for unhealthy lifestyle or suboptimal environmental inputs. Symptoms start as whispers, and then become sirens. They are warning signs from your body that something needs to be addressed. There is deep wisdom within each one and if you listen close enough or are able to decipher the message it reveals your path to recovery.

If we rush to cover symptoms up without listening to what they were trying to convey, we aren'‘t listening to our innate symptoms that are crying for help and trying to tell us something.

Imagine that your bathtub is clogged and instead of unclogging it, you continue to use it and just close the door to hide it. With continued use of the bathtub, you would eventually have a growing mess that provided the proper environment to grow mold, bacteria and ultimately flood your bathroom floor. You could buy air filters and could spray all the best air fresheners (toxic or natural) you could buy in the room. You could start using the your guest bathroom so things could remain semi-functional in your home. The condition of your home, however, will only continue to worsen until it becomes so bad that your home appears to be “unlivable” and you are forced to move. The house wasn’t broken, the bathroom wasn’t even broken or defective. The drain was simply clogged.

This seems silly but it is actually so incredibly similar to how the old medical model teaches you to look at the physical body when a symptom appears. Cover it up, cut it out, and take this to numb it. Then keep covering up what follows as a result of not addressing the issue from the beginning.

Many are usually given a drug for a symptom to only develop additional symptoms from not addressing the initial issue. Then that drug creates additional symptoms. It doesn’t make sense. You continue to develop new symptoms until you meet the criteria or check enough dysfunction boxes to “receive” a diagnosis or the belief that you are broken.

You are not broken.

Start looking at your symptoms as the messages, not signs that your body is deffective. If you only knew what your body was doing to keep you alive on a daily basis, you would break down in tears of gratitude for simply being able to breathe and have more good days than bad.

Listening to your symptoms does not mean you have to suffer. It just means that you have to understand what your body is trying to tell you, and then help it release. When I work with you, I take the messages and formulate a plan to reverse what made them begin.

Listen to your body, be thankful for its whispers. If it is screaming at you now, it was only because you never gave attention to the whispers. You are not broken, you just need to identify where the clogged bathtub is.

You only get this one home. Your body is your home, and it is beautifully and wonderfully made.