The latent emotions that lie behind every symptom or diagnosis

Every illness or disease we go through carries an unhealed, unresolved, unheard emotion.

Symptoms are the great messengers in our life, messengers that we must register to know what they come to say and to be able to heal the pain of the soul.

The diseased organ is related to an emotion that causes such ailment, which accompanies us without healing as a trauma throughout the history of our lives.

The diagnosis or disease that manifests itself is not accidental; has a meaning, a cause and a saying that was not put into words in a timely manner, generating an imbalance in the body, resulting in the appearance of the disease.

As a therapist, I see patients coming into my office suffering from one diagnosis after another, having already traveled the extensive medical pilgrimage with the medication on duty and without being able to generate the emotional question that such a pain, without being able to talk emotionally about that pain.

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Why is it difficult for us to talk about what we feel?

This difficulty arises because every question we can ask ourselves leads us to the search for an answer and an action that accompanies said answer, knowing that we must take responsibility for what we find, get out of already known areas and take action.

We are not used to change; change frightens, it causes discomfort not knowing what we are going to find or what the new will be like. And many times we remain in situations or bonds that are not good for us, that generate pain, unhappiness, that are toxic.

That continuity in time, the lack of a question and the absence of an action, are the sum of what could manifest as disease, where the body first whispers, then speaks and finally screams through a symptom.

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Connecting with our emotions

Entering the emotional field will lead us to a process that is necessary to go through even with pain to achieve the changes we want. This process requires courage and honesty with ourselves, being absolutely necessary to be able to travel the new path.

We are used to carrying heavy backpacks, mandates that we no longer want, not listening to what happens to us; sometimes, we are afraid to choose what we want because of the greater fear of breaking those rules imposed culturally and familiarly.

And so we stop observing ourselves and knowing ourselves authentically; We forget that we have the obligation and responsibility to take the path of our dreams.

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To do?

The first step is to become aware of what is happening to us, observing so that the next step is a rethinking, a resetting of what we want and where we want to direct our lives.

Knowing that to choose implies leaving something behind, and this entails a duel that accompanies, but also knowing that without this process, without this choice, without this change, the symptom will always manifest, being in its beginning an acute picture to pass to the chronicity if it is not attended.

This road to travel, sometimes, we cannot do it alone, being necessary the listening and the accompaniment of some professional, who with neutral and active listening guides and sustains those anxieties that surely will appear.

only when we can look inside ourselves, get to know each other, generate a question and look for the path we want, even if this implies leaving behind things, situations or bonds, that will be the time to start heal emotionally, giving rise to the word and contributing to the symptom beginning to give way route.

I invite you to ask yourself if you are living the life you want or the life that others wanted for you, taking this question as a starting point to reach the be that she will become when you find the answer and you can go through your own process.

My name is Andrea Gabriela Bouillon, I have a degree in Clinical Psychology, and a specialist in holistic therapies. I have been developing my activity in the Institutional field for 24 years with adults and the elderly, and in the private sphere for more than 27 years working with adolescents, adults, older adults and couples.

I chose holistic therapies as a way of working because I consider Be from its completeness, body, mind and soul, weaving in each consultation a network of action with a complete and comprehensive approach... Without forgetting the social factor involved in accompanying each patient, being in many cases necessary to dialogue with the members who accompany them in their daily lives.

My therapeutic work is based on the integration mentioned above and applying from there the approach in therapy, trying to create a connection with feeling, saying and doing. Generating congruence between these factors. Accompanying the patient in his pain, to discover, to remove the veils that do not allow him to advance and reach the other shore together, healing the emotions that affect the body.

I invite you to walk that path together.