Self-Care for the Self-Aware: A Guide for Highly Sensitive People, Empaths, Intuitives, and Healers

by Dave Markowitz

For example, diarrhea is often the body’s reaction to food toxicity or to emotional toxicity while eating. But it doesn’t feel good, so we take a pill to stop it from happening. Obviously, this keeps the toxicity within. A runny nose is often repressed grief trying to make its way out, and we take a pill to prevent that, too. A cough is often grief and/or throat chakra issues coming to the surface for healing, and a headache is often the end result of a chain reaction of tightened neck muscles that reduce the flow of blood, oxygen, and qi (energy) to the brain caused by mental, physical, or emotional distress. But instead of allowing the body to heal itself by detoxifying naturally, or dealing with the grief, or communicating our truth, or dealing with what’s stressing us, we take a pill.