A common occurrence in our lives or in the lives of our loved ones, when something doesn’t quite feel right, but the tests appear fine, and we are left stuck. We either hesitate to push further, not wanting to be an inconvenience and even start questioning our own experience of our body, feeling like we might be overreacting. Or we start to trust ourselves that our body is not in balance and searching more deeply for answers.
Sometimes we feel unheard, or unacknowledged, or even dismissed. Sometimes this path leads to many different appointments with doctors, and allied health and complementary health practitioners. Sometimes we get close to the answer, sometimes it feels like there is some progress, sometimes we feel like perhaps we are just finding other bandaid solutions.
Perhaps, the truest way forward might be about trust. Not just about finding health practitioners that we can trust (that are earnestly trying to explore the symptoms in a more holistic way), but learning to trust our bodies, what they are actually feeling, physically and emotionally, and learning to hear that “inner voice”. Often called intuition, and often labelled unscientific, it is this that can light the way. Our bodies speak, often more loudly than we want. We start with trusting that the body isn’t in balance, being true to ourselves and finding someone who trusts our experience of being in our own body and wants to explore it to find some real answers. Then there are the deeper learnings from our experience- sometimes we are not ready to hear what needs to be heard. The toxic relationship that needs a new boundary, the violation of trust from loved ones in our past, the loneliness we sense, the “unsafety” we feel in our bodies, all contributing to making the healing path slower than we expected.
We then find some solace in some people in our health journey that remind us of our wholeness, not our brokenness, and help us weave together the answers, some in the physical realm, and some that are less tangible. These people take the form of health practitioners, friends, family, colleagues and people within our wider community. Together we start to heal, learning from each other’s journeys and gently supporting each other on our road to recovery.