What if your Symptoms were the Remedy?
- onenaturaltherapie
- Apr 20
- 2 min read
Part 1 of The Series On Peri-Menopause
Is your body letting you down? Do you have the sense you should be able to do more than you can?
Symptoms of Peri menopause
Rage …usually inconsolable
Drained … emotionally-empty, physically-flat and intellectually-exasperated
Anxious …. Lonely, isolated and apathetic.
Your options?
Option 1. Suppress
Dull dampen numb or override symptoms
Sharon Blackie in Wise Women wrties "Menopause is presented as a medical condition which needs to managed. Hormone Replacement Therapy, instead of being a useful and often necessary antidote to the most challenging physical consequences of menopause is offered as an anti aging medication."
"The afternoon of human life must also have a significance of it's own" - Carl Jung
Option 2. Acknowledge & Honour with Curiosity #curiositycures
Invite others to be curious.
So that perhaps immersed in a culture of curiosity we might consider these symptoms are not wrong.
The symptoms are not rebellious or unruly or protest behaviours nor deliberate disruption nor attention seeking
Nor are they, our bodies turning against us
For this after all would be the most tragic and the truly soul destroying of all.
"There is no such thing as a bad day in nature. You can't stand in judgement of nature like that because she always does what she needs to do" - Eustace Conway quoted by Elizabeth Gilbert
Just as your body always does what she needs to do
No, your symptoms are not something to protest
Your symptoms are to be heard
They are your body's ONLY way of communicating her needs
Her need for rest...her need for perspective...her need for insight...silence...meaning.
Her need to action, speak out, move away from
Her need to trust in the emerging
Her need for remembering who she is, where she is, and what matters to her now.
Her need to use her energy wisely.
What are your symptoms telling you?
Try this...
Fold a piece of paper in half
On one side jot a list of your symptoms....every last one
On the other side, and answering with your non-dominant hand, ask your body "What is it, dear body, you you telling me?"
Your non-dominant hand, connected to the non-dominant side your brain is less socialised, less conditioned, less habituated to identify with thought, and more open, trusting and more identified with the body.
Those in The Burnout- & Trauma- Care Clinic were suprised at the ultra-specific and completely unexpected responses they received.
I'd love to hear your comments below. What suprises did your non-dominant side express?
How were your Symptoms acting as your Remedy?
Alexis Dennehy
Somatic Integrative Therapist
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