Medical Trauma – Winter Blooms

Growing up, I heard the worst things said of my birthplace, Windsor, Ontario, and the surrounding county. I remember hearing “the Armpit of Canada” and “Lunch Bucket Town”, the latter referring to the industries that made factory workers solidly middle class because they paid so well. I also remember killer sinus infections because those same industries caused rampant air pollution. I happily moved to Waterloo – for cleaner air, higher ed, and a fresh start after family troubles.

Like so many families in the late 1940s and early 1950s, ours suffered serious trauma. We did not endure unhealed WWII terrors that precipitated alcoholism and domestic violence. Nor were we affected by the systemic racism and poverty of those pre-civil rights times. Medical isolation and divorce led to our family’s dissolution.

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For anyone who has experienced a medical trauma early in life, a trip to the doctor triggers deep seated fears until the trauma is addressed. Until healing begins, a simple annual physical exam becomes a reminder of the earlier trauma, often through physical responses such as anxiety and dread that make no logical sense at all. In truth, logic is rarely present during situations that frighten us. At these times, it is the body that reacts to whatever the medical trauma might be, these reactions laying dormant in the physical systems until life presents us with circumstances that activate them, and activation is the portal to healing. Fortunately, as we pursue our healing course, Tapping can help to calm anxiety that comes with otherwise neutral circumstances, and it can also help us to gain insight into why we feel as we do and so release these terrors.

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