What is your GUT telling you?
That bloated, unsettled feeling in your gut isn't random.
Your nervous system has been quietly managing everything you haven't been able to address yet- ei. the concern about the alimony for the divorce, the need for rest you talked yourself out of, the moment at work you held it together when you actually needed to fall apart.
Every UNRESOLVED thing you're carrying TAKES UP
S P A C E.
And your body is working overtime to contain it.
🍄I see this constantly in my work at Beyond Limits Expressive Arts Therapy. When we slow down and actually listen to what's happening somatically, what's underneath is a body that has been managing a backlog for months. Sometimes years.
The work I do as a devoted psychedelic and expressive arts coach tends to the tension, hypervigilance, and your inability to settle. We work with the backlog. Integration is where you actually move through it somatically, creatively, at the parts level.
Here's an example of my own personal expressive arts process that I guide others through in relation to anxiety and stomach dysfunction:
"What My Abdomen Has Been Trying to Say" by Marisa Skolky
"Pregnant with grief I never got to deliver.
Bloated with what was forced down when I was already full.
My stomach has been digesting shame since before I had words for it.
A baby allergic to her mother's milk,
contracting against judgment,
always sucking the belly in.
I abandoned the voice of my abdomen the way you abandon something
you're afraid to hear.
It only speaks when it SCREAMS.
There are parasites in here
emotional, physical, mental feeding on what's been stuck.
Grief that I kept looking at instead of working with.
Instead of loving on.
My abdomen doesn't trust itself to know what to eliminate.
All or nothing.
Letting go of everything or holding all of it in.
But something is worth keeping.
I'm learning to ask:
What no longer belongs here?
What has been nourishing?
What am I ready to assimilate?
I release the shame you've been carrying from not living up to my own standards.
I release the burden you've been holding from my ancestors.
I hear you.
I love you.
I'm so sorry, Marisa.
It doesn't have to be so hard.
You don't have to digest it alone."
If you're tired of managing and ready to actually resolve what's underneath, book a discovery call with me. Link here: https://marisaskolky.as.me/discovery