The Body Never Lies: Healing Trauma Stored in the Body

The Body Never Lies—It Only Calls Us Home

The First Signs: When My Body Started Speaking

The first time I realized my body was trying to tell me something, I was too young to understand.

As a child, I picked at scabs from chicken pox, using pain as a strange form of self-soothing. In ballet, my body was never quite right—too stiff, too soft, too much. When I got my period, the pain was unbearable, waves of agony so intense I could barely move. Doctors dismissed it, offering solutions that never worked. The message was clear: push through, ignore, endure.

And so I did.

But the body doesn’t whisper forever. If you don’t listen, it finds another way to get your attention.

When Pain Became a Language My Body Spoke Fluently

Years later, I developed an ovarian tumor. I had it removed, expecting relief, but the pain persisted. The bleeding continued. My body was still crying out.

It wasn’t until I radically changed my diet that my symptoms eased. But something else happened in that process—I started seeing my past more clearly.

As I worked with a life coach, I realized I wasn’t just healing my body. I was unearthing the weight of unprocessed emotions, generational trauma, and unspoken burdens I had unknowingly carried.

And I began to understand something profound:

👉 Chronic pain is often the body’s last attempt to get our attention.

It doesn’t betray us. It doesn’t fail us. It communicates.

When Your Job Makes You Sick: The Mind-Body Connection

The migraines started when I took my first real job as a news producer.

The dizziness was relentless. Some days, I could barely stand. I lost my balance so frequently that I had to give up yoga. Doctors ran tests, offered theories, and prescribed solutions. Nothing worked.

And then, years later, it happened again.

This time, I was working for a boss who expected me to anticipate her needs before she voiced them—while making it clear I wasn’t allowed to have any of my own. My body revolted. The dizziness came back. The migraines intensified.

🚨 My menstrual cramps became so severe I couldn’t feel the lower half of my body for up to 20 minutes. My periods became more frequent, more painful. My body was screaming, but I didn’t want to listen.

I blamed it. I hated it.

But the irony?

👉 I was carrying pain that wasn’t even mine.

And when I finally left that job—under humiliating circumstances—something miraculous happened.

The dizziness stopped. The migraines faded. My body healed. Almost overnight.

That was my wake-up call.

👉 The body doesn’t betray us. It only reflects what we have yet to acknowledge.

Healing Trauma Stored in the Body

I am still healing.

Next week, I’ll be having an RTT session with a friend, exploring what I have long suspected: that my body has equated pain with connection. That I have been afraid to let go. That this bloating I feel after nourishing myself with food isn’t just digestion—it’s old grief, old emotions, old stories I absorbed like a sponge.

But here’s what I know for certain:

✅ Healing is never just about the symptom. It’s about the unseen, the unspoken, the unprocessed.

At first, we think we’re fixing one thing—the migraines, the exhaustion, the pain.

But then, something deeper shifts:

✔️ Our voice strengthens.

✔️ Our confidence rises.

✔️ The old need to apologize, to over-explain, to overextend—evaporates.

✔️ We stop second-guessing ourselves. We trust.

I see it happen with my clients every day. They come to me for one thing and leave transformed in ways they never expected.

👉 The subconscious is not here to hurt you—it is here to free you.

👉 The body is not your enemy—it is your greatest teacher.

Your Body Already Knows the Way

The body remembers everything.

But it also knows how to heal.

If this spoke to you—if something in your heart whispered, “this is for me”—I invite you to take the next step.

Healing isn’t about working harder. It’s about trusting deeper.

Are you ready?