You Will Not Truly Heal Anything Without This One Component
I’ve long believed in a holistic approach to healing the body and mind. But even when we do everything right, healing rarely happens fully without one essential layer: psychosomatics.
If you knew how many times in my life I’ve asked myself: Why does it still hurt?
Since forever I’ve searched for answers. As a highly sensitive person, I’ve always felt my body’s pains and illnesses deeply, strongly, almost unmanageably. Every ache carried emotional weight. Maybe this is similar to all HSPs.
I believe no one wants to feel unwell. Yet most people around me do little about their health. At best, they cover the issues with symptom-silencing medical approach and wonder why the same problems keep returning.
I’ve always felt like the exception, the one relentlessly searching for ways to end the pain (in my case especially the chronic ache in my back) and also non-chronic illnesses. Every piece of advice I found, I tried to weave into my healing: just let the pain go, let me feel normal again. Back then, answers weren’t just a few clicks away. “Alternative” approaches weren’t easy to access, and life around me ran on autopilot. Still, something in me refused to stop searching.
Searching and Finding Roots
Over time, through my stubbornly persistent symptoms, I began to look for what lay beneath them — the real causes. (Maybe that’s why the Root Cause Protocol makes sense to me, though that’s a story for another day). My exploration unfolded slowly: one book, then another, fragments of information online, a few Instagram accounts hinting at deeper healing, until I started intentionally seeking the word psychosomatics.
Since then, I’ve learned and practiced so much. I’ve brought it into daily life and can honestly say that even though my healing journey has no clear end, I’ve recovered from nearly everything that once weighed me down. And whenever something new appears, psychosomatic understanding helps me meet it with more compassion and as a result heal faster. Plus I always learn something new about myself. Because pain is the messenger, and that should not be killed, as the saying goes.
Psychosomatics explores how our emotional, mental, and social worlds shape our physical health and how the body mirrors what’s happening within us. It sees body and mind as one living system, constantly influencing each other. Healing, then, must consider the whole: not only physical symptoms but also the emotional and relational patterns that give rise to them. I would summarize it simply: when a part of my body hurts, I ask what it wants to tell me. I listen for what lies underneath, come closer to the root, make space for change, and the pain begins to shift. This understanding aligns with the core principles of psychosomatic medicine recognized in integrative and behavioral health fields.
We women, especially highly sensitive ones, have a gift. Our intuition and sensory depth let us feel the body’s signals clearly and soon. That sensitivity makes psychosomatic work unfold more easily for us; our bodies already speak loud and clear, comparing to people who are, for example, not as attuned and sensitive to the expressions of their own bodies.
Knowing which organ relates to which life area is one part of psychosomatics. But the real transformation begins when we translate that knowledge into lived experience.
What happens when this understanding moves from theory into daily experience? That’s where things begin to change.
I have to say that it is a very practical field. You may also wonder whether it works with high sensitivity.