Is the season the reason you are in pain?
I’d been having a whole lot of weird aches and pains and anxieties surface, all starting right about Thanksgiving.
I was scattered and STRESSED.
And my right knee started having this stabbing pain, particularly when going up stairs.
I was wondering what the heck was wrong with me when it hit me:
My body was remembering some old traumas that happened right around Thanksgiving a few years ago.
Thanksgiving hit, and bam - my body was waving red flags that I had not healed something.
I’d dealt with it at the time.
I thought I moved through it.
But I had not actually take the time to fully heal it - to feel the emotions around it, to look at what happened, and make decisions on what I needed to do about what I learned in the process.
Interestingly, all the anxieties I was feeling were exactly how I felt then.
And the right knee issue was, from a medical intuitive perspective, about me not being able to feel safe stepping up to a higher level.
I had definitely taken on a belief about it not being safe to step forward during the original trauma.
Traumas are stored in our bodies.
When we don’t fully deal with them at the time, they resurface during the anniversary of the trauma.
We may not consciously remember the date, but the subconscious does.
And the body starts talking, trying to get your attention for healing that needs to be done - emotionally, energetically, and then physically.
Sometimes the season is the reason for your pain.
If you’ve been dealing with out-of-the blue pain, strange symptoms, or unexpected flare ups of disease, it might be a trigger from holidays gone by.
To figure out what’s happening (and fix it), try these tips:
Take a moment to think through your holiday experiences.
Do you have holidays that had major stressors? Family fights? Loss of income? Or other majorly stressful, traumatic issues?If so, write about how you felt at the time.
Try to do a stream-of-consciousness kind of writing - just start writing, and keep writing, without editing anything you write. Let it come out however it needs to.
To get going, use these journal prompts:
“Here’s everything that happened during that time…”
“When this happened, I felt….”
“What I wish had happened was….”
“When I this happened, this is how I felt about myself…”Look at the symptoms you are experiencing. How might they relate to how you felt at the time?
For instance, if you are experiencing aching pain, it’s likely you felt heartbroken at the time.
Stabbing pain? You felt attacked.
Hard time breathing? Your breath was taken away by whatever happened; it stifled you.
Back pain? You felt unsupported at the time.
Pounding headaches? You felt frustrated and stuck by the situation; you could not find a solution (or, you intuitively knew the solution, but could not put it in place).
Sinus infection? Something right in front of your face (someone close to you) made you feel blocked and stuck.
Write about your symptoms and see if you can intuitively relate the symptoms to what they might be saying about the root issue.
(If you need help with this, join my Body Language program! You’ll be able to decipher everything and have an healing action plan in no time!)Shift the trigger.
Every experience in life creates little memories in our minds. Those memories are a combination of everything we felt, sensed, and did in that moment.
When we encounter a trigger that is ANY part of that original experience, our mind brings up the entire memory again, causing us to re-experience things as if it were real now.
For instance, maybe you were in a car crash. When it happened, your favorite song was on the radio. In that moment of the crash, you felt fear, panic, pain, and shock. The intensity of those emotions combined with the sound of the cars hitting, the sight of the car coming at you, and the sound of that song.
Fast forward a month, and that same song comes on the radio. You suddenly feel panic and anxiety. Your breath quickens. You become tense and hyper-alert.
Your mind now associates that song with all that you experienced in the accident. Whenever you hear that song, all those emotions and feeling are pulled up subconsciously.
It’s the same with ANY trigger, but the holidays are a big one.
One of my current clients called up sobbing. It was just before Thanksgiving, and she was suddenly overwhelmed with negativity and panic. She was so depressed that she could barely get out of bed. And she had a massive flare up in gastritis, causing stomach pain and vomiting.
We were able to identify the trigger - she had NEVER had a good holiday. Her mom was an abusive alcoholic and had married an abusive man. It always got worse during the holidays. She remembers her stomach hurting the closer it got to Christmas each year, knowing that Christmas would be horrible.
Her body was simply remembering that she needed to start worrying in November, so when mid-November came around, all these symptoms flared up.
She no longer lives with her mom, but the effects of that were showing up like she did.
She needed to take charge and create new associations with the holidays.
So, we came up with new traditions that she was excited about. We talked about songs to play and things to do to shift the energy of this season from one of stress, fear, and disappointment to happiness, joy, and the holiday SHE wanted to create (and the one she deserved as a child).
I’d suggest you do the same. How can you claim the holiday in a new way that is authentic to you? If there is a certain day that has an anniversary which is difficult for you, how can you choose to do something positive for you that day - that honors the anniversary, but creates a new memory?
Find things that bring YOU joy this holiday season. Create a new set of traditions that YOU are excited about. Create what YOU want this holiday, and start making that your intent every holiday.
And finally, give yourself some extra grace. This is a hard time of year for so many people. Be gentle with yourself. Extend extra love and kindness to all you meet.
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Sending you joy and love this holiday, and always -
Tara