If you’re like me, you may think that the subject of “emotions” is meant for therapy and you don’t think you need therapy or you are just exhausted and too financially strapped to spend more money on something you don’t even know works. Maybe you grew up in a family where talking about emotions is taboo and you’ve found that to feel true for yourself. Maybe you’ve been told you’re TOO emotional and you’ve been doing your very best to just keep your emotions at bay and not show too much to other people. 

I get that emotions seem like an odd place to start for healing from physical pain. And if you’re not in physical pain, this toolkit is still so very valuable to see how emotions are simply “messages of information.” They’re not good, not bad. The Bible speaks to our emotional world to which many Christians have labeled some as sinful and some as ok. I’m here to help open up your eyes to how powerful our emotions are and how we are designed to hold and create a safe place for all of our emotions to live. 

If you are in pain, our emotional world is pivotal to understanding how pain symptoms start up and how they perpetuate chronic pain. Our brain and body are not two separate entities like we may have thought. Rather, the body is simply an extension to the brain. Physical pain and emotional pain are actually processed in the same part of the brain! Why is this important? An initial structural injury may heal but the pain signals can be perpetuated by things such as emotional repression, repressed trauma etc. It’s important to notice how hugely our emotional world impacts our physical world. This toolkit explores the basics of how emotions trigger pain.