Articles #pain

This time of year has always meant something deeper to me. Maybe it’s because I’ve spent decades working with pain — physical, emotional, ancestral — and I’ve learned to listen closely to the rhythms of the body and the seasons. July is not just about warmth and sunlight. It’s about melting what’s been frozen, thawing what’s been braced for too long, and listening to what your nervous system is truly asking for. And often… It’s not asking for more effort. It’s asking for release.

At one point in my early twenties, I was a complex patient who had chronic conditions trying many treatments and therapies and then discovering underneath all of it were traumas. This led to 25 years of trying to understand the complexity of trauma and many of our "diseases".