Josh TrentIdentity Transformation Architect and award winning Host of the Wellness + Wisdom Podcast—a decade-strong show with over 750 episodes and 15M downloads.

This is why you need to take care of your #emotionalhealth! Full #podcast episode in our profile.

11 Sept 2023 · 1 min

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YouTube podcast episode (Josh Trent) discussing the link between emotional health and physical well-being. Speakers argue that emotions can be stored in the body and manifest as physical symptoms; personal anecdotes are used as evidence (e.g., a woman with back pain tied to emotional conflict over an affair; a man whose ulcerative colitis improved after forgiving his father). The episode encourages reflection on unresolved feelings (resentment, anger) and how they may affect bodily health.

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We really have to be mindful of our bodies as these places where emotions get stored. And I see people getting so frustrated with their bodies. Why won't it do this? Why can't it do that? What else do I have to do to get it to do this thing that I wanted to do? Well, what, and, and, and who are you not treating right in your own life? Who are you hanging on to? Feelings of resentment and anger about? One of my mentors, Louis Malmadrona. He asked a woman who had back pain what was going on in her life and if she felt torn in any way and she was having an affair. She felt torn between this man, who she felt more emotional intimacy with and support from, and her husband, who she'd sworn to hold in sickness and in health, richer, for poorer, until death was part. And you know, this back pain, she described it as a tearing pain in her back. Jim tells his story all the time on podcasts that his ulcerative colitis that almost killed him, it went into remission when he forgave his father for the way he treated him as a child.