03/05/2026
I am in CONSTANT awe of the intelligence of the body, and the way it speaks to us.
When I first became a clinical nutritionist and functional medicine practitioner, I became obsessed with how symptoms can give us clues about imbalances in the body.
Salt cravings - perhaps there is adrenal fatigue.
Bloating with healthy foods like onions, watermelon and mushrooms - perhaps there is SIBO.
Waking up between 2am - 4am - perhaps there are detoxification issues.
I still love connecting the dots with clients, connecting their symptoms to body system imbalances, and confirming those with labs.
But in my own healing journey and professional evolution into a holistic, trauma-informed body-mind coach, I have become even more in awe of how these symptoms have even deeper messages, trying to get our attention.
For example, I had a client recently whose back pain was less about a “structural” issue, and more to do with her not fully backing herself and her self-care - the things she *knew* would make all the difference.
Another client had terrible throat pain after financial stress. Yes, it was the stress that triggered the physiology to inflame - but deeper than that, the throat pain represented a protective part of her, trying to protect her from losing her home again (she lost her home at 10yo, and now as an adult the fear showed up in her throat - we knew this, because when we did some somatic memory reprocessing, the throat pain disappeared immediately).
I’ve also seen chronic health issues disappear - like lifelong constipation, severe histamine intolerance, and anxiety - when clients have listened to the messages from their body, and done the work to create safety.
This stuff works!! When you learn to art of listening to and following the signals from your body.
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