I once treated a lady who had experienced 7 years of coccyx pain. After three years of physical therapy elsewhere, the client eventually had surgery in an effort to relieve her pain. However nothing changed. She couldn’t sit for more than a few minutes or lay on her back to sleep. She felt pain all the time. She had given up.
In one final attempt for reprieve, the client came to me for treatment.
She shared her story, telling me 7 years prior she’d broken her coccyx during childbirth. But what was more interesting to me was what else was happening in her life at that time. She was brought up in a family with a very strong belief system. In an arranged marriage from a young age, her husband was cheating on her while she was pregnant. He left her soon after their baby was born. She also felt her mother was close to disowning her due to these happenings.
Emotions around our personal and family relationships are stored in the hips and pelvis. Her values had changed and were in conflict with her family. She didn’t feel supported at all, simply living a life to appease her family and not one in line with her values to marry for love not status. She was holding an incredible amount of tension.
It was her reactions to her emotions that was causing her discomfort. She finally had the opportunity to acknowledge she had been through so much and how it was affecting her. Her openness and desire to change made the process easy for me and the results quicker for her. Within eight sessions her discomfort completely resolved. She has since left behind the strict beliefs she was brought up with and found happiness, and her body feels this.
My work allows me to encourage people to find their own purpose, follow their truth and be able to express it. I am deeply passionate about this mind-body connection and the work I do with it.
In western society it is common to get caught up in a busy lifestyle and soon the work-life balance can tip in the favour of work. We need to make sure we keep the balance by nurturing ourselves with the things we love. This is different for everyone but can range from eating healthy food, spending time with family, going on adventures, achieving a personal goal, but also the often forgotten rest and quiet time.
Sometimes, amongst the busyness, life’s little hiccups such as sickness and injury may not be given adequate time to recover. And the emotions associated with relationship breakups and death may not be given a safe space or time to be expressed.
Your body is incredibly complex; it has a whole bunch of internal functions that occur without you having to think. We sometimes hear about miracles that happen when people recover or heal from illness and injury. However, the body has an innate capacity to heal itself, given the right conditions.
