06/08/2026
There is something I encounter again in my therapeutic work with women.
The moment when someone realizes that the physical pain she’s been carrying for years is not a mechanical malfunction.
It’s a message.
In one of my recent sessions, a client shared that she’d been walking around
with pain in her right shoulder for ten years.
Ten years!
She had completely normalized it.
“That’s just how it is, it’s just there.”
When we started talking about it, something fell into place.
The right side of the body pulls and protects the left side.
That’s where the heart resides.
She said it herself.
“I’m protecting my heart.”
This isn’t complicated psychology. It’s simply the body doing what it learned to do to protect us.
In the therapy sessions, this is our starting piont…
But for you, for now, here are three questions to take with you:
1. Where in your body is there pain you’ve normalized? What is your body trying to protect there?
2. When does the pain show up? Is it connected to a certain emotion? A person? A situation?
3. Before you rush to treat the symptom. Ask what’s behind it.
The body doesn’t forget. It’s just waiting for us to listen.
If you’r like to dive deeper to start the healing process, write me in the comments or pm.
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