Why Your Chronic Pain Isn't Physical (The Real Truth & How to Heal)

So that's not an option.

So there is work involved in getting all the trauma out.

And I'm not going to sugarcoat it and say that it's all fun and games because it's difficult.

It sucks.

I've been at this for seven plus years and yeah, it's gotten easier for sure, but it still sucks.

So you know, it just there is on any given day, I would rather eat glass than journal about my emotions.

But I know what the consequences of not doing that are.

So as you keep doing it, it you will eventually start to feel lighter and those emotions stop weighing you down.

So what's in this cup? It's kind of blurry, but these are marbles.

So imagine these marbles inside of this cup are those repressed emotions that are weighing you down.

So how do we empty this cup? So the first rule is you have to hold the thing before you can let it go.

You can't just throw your subconscious away because that's you.

So we have to pick an emotion out of the box.

So let's say this marble is fear.

When you pull out an emotion like fear, you might not even know where it's coming from or why it's there.

And that doesn't matter.

It literally does not matter where the emotion came from.

Because sometimes we've been through so much trauma that like our memories, not only are our emotions repressed, so are our memories.

But what matters here is that the emotion gets expressed.

So how do we express it? First of all, we have to look at it.

Okay, we have to look at okay, this is fear.

I don't like it, but I'm looking at it.

And then you have to express it.

You have to let yourself feel it.