Previously I talked about my personal experience of how a trauma created digestive dis-ease in the form of IBS and food intolerances.
Another common feature with fears around survival are that the body retains water. Its reasoning is that alone it is more difficult to find this life-sustaining resource and so it must hold on to as much as it can until it is reunited with the tribe. When the body again feels it is safe it can release the water. At its peak (6) this is often experienced as a migraine, and this is what happened for me. It can also mean that you pee more than normal as your body pushes out the excess water.
As I mentioned in my last post, I was repeatedly being retriggered as contact with my Dad did not go smoothly and it often pushed me straight back into stress. This is what is known as a ‘hanging healing’, where the body repeatedly cycles through the process, unable to break out of the pattern and complete the journey through regeneration and normalisation to wellbeing.