Joanne Smith explains how the brain turns feelings of unworthiness into physical threats, creating back pain, migraines, blurry vision, or a lump in the throat. These sensations are emotional signals, not actual damage. Addressing the underlying feeling works better than treating the pain alone.
but basically, you're more likely to feel like you're not measuring up, that you're not good enough. And, um, this is a really lovely way to explain it, because if we're having thoughts that we're not worthy, we're not good enough, our brain senses that as a legitimate threat, a real-life danger. And what amazing thing it could do to protect us from that by diverting that to the body, by amazing distraction of back pain or a migraine or head pain or eyes blurry or I'm just naming all the things that I've struggled with over the years. A lump in the back of the throat, all of these physical symptoms, just purely because ultimately that is actually a really big emotional thing. So if we can get comfortable with that, and knowing that that's not dangerous, and divert the attention to that and actually address it, and be like, hang on a minute, what's really happening here?
