Caring Matters
New-age author Eckhart Tolle, conjured up the term pain-body, to explain the repressed emotional pain viscerally carried around inside a person. Most of us carry some kind of pain-body which is manifested as physical and [Read More]
Currently, I am in a liminal space, an in-between state where my traumatized past self is nearly gone but my new personality is still in development. For years, I was frozen in time, a frightened, [Read More]
Since my article on the emotional fascia and its implications in the development of scoliosis, I wanted to know how the fascia connects to the brain and which part of it. On researching, I learned [Read More]
There is this saying, ‘I cried because I had no shoes, till I saw a man with no feet.” No doubt, our trauma is valid and we have a right to feel resentful, angry, sad, [Read More]
The last few days have been tough, I felt stuck. Unable to move forward in my healing. I thought I had gotten over most of my past but alas there was still something that was [Read More]
Like many who suffer from scoliosis, I have lived with chronic pain for most of my life. And I have grown so used to it that when I was in labor I did not feel [Read More]
The common advice in treating scoliosis is to stretch the damn curve out. But of course, we all know that it does not work. Forcing muscles into a particular position can do more damage to [Read More]
For a long time, I didn’t really understand when Dr. Hannibel asked Clarice, in the famous movie, Silence of the Lambs, “Well, Clarice… have the lambs stopped screaming?” It is only now after 4 years [Read More]
My face is not symmetrical. Repressing my painful feelings froze the right facial muscles into an asymmetrical distortion. This led to the development of scoliosis, and not the other way round. I find it irritating [Read More]
We are programmed and groomed since childhood to believe things that are not really true or are inherently false. Our parents, caregivers, and the school system work at creating obedient and pliable humans who will [Read More]