You might be asking yourself how it is possible for physical diseases and symptoms to be caused by emotional or mental trauma/stress or why our nutrition and lifestyle choices don't have more of an impact on our physical health than addressing our emotions and mental health?
Even good nutrition and lifestyle choices often aren't enough to combat your body's pattern or tendency to express your emotional/mental distress as physical symptoms. This is why when you stop 'eating well' or experience more stress your symptoms return or worsen.
The good news is that it is possible
to break these physical symptom patterns. It is possible to overcome chronic disease.
How? By addressing your health from a holistic standpoint - for example, looking at your emotional and mental health when your symptoms first started can be very helpful in addressing your current physical/emotional and mental symptoms.
This is often described as finding the 'root cause.' By understanding that the symptoms you experience can be caused by an emotional/mental stressor or trauma, you can start addressing your health on a more holistic level and truly start to get healing.