The Wisdom of Symptoms
"What a gift it is to feel. It means that we are alive." - Dr. Cassie Huckaby Your symptoms are a sign that your body is FUNCTIONING. They are a sign that your physiology is healthy enough to compensate even if the result is discomfort. We have to change the way we look at the message of symptoms to change the way we look at ourselves and to better understand healing. I am much more concerned if a patient of mine is numbed to life and sensation or unable to feel pain than I am if a patient is experiencing deeply even if it is painful. That’s not to say that I am ever glad for any individual to experience pain or any symptom or will ever let them remain in that state, but it does tell me a lot about their vitality and the distance we have to travel to obtain wellness. “A doctor who, if [she] could, would move heaven and earth just to return the gift of pain to people who do not have it. For pain is both the warning system and the protective me
