When you pick a piece of fruit from a tree, it may look fine and plump on the outside, but then you might find bugs, eggs, and maybe a worm in the center around its seeds.
My grandmother and mother used to tell me to cut around the rot, and that the rest untouched was still good.
But, when it comes to what’s stored in our bodies after trauma, there are often no visually recognizable aspects we can address like this.
If damage was physical, this is more straightforward in that there may be scars, tissue bunching, and eventually healing seen.
Intangible effects usually more prevalent are the energetic leftovers of negativity: those messaging signals that hardwire our receptors to forever after expect and look for danger repeating.
My weak link is my abdomen, as it is the last to respond in workouts. It’s still stuck in freeze mode, waiting for external “safe to respond” signals.
If success is compromised, those signals do not materialize – and its even harder to make progress in toning my body
Therefore, I’ve decided to not work on other parts of my body much until it becomes clear my core muscle fibers are actively engaging.
Hopefully, this will reconfigure internal network’s point of view once I actually feel that I am thriving.
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