252: Why can't my body handle what everyone else's can (Adenomyosis, trauma healing)

I did everything right....The nervous system work, the somatic healing, the diet, the pace. And I still got unwell. This episode is me figuring out why.

If you've spent any time in wellness or personal development, you know the story. Your physical symptoms are connected to unhealed emotional trauma. Your body is keeping score. Do the work, and the body follows.

I believed that. I taught it. And somewhere along the way, it quietly became a very sophisticated form of self-blame.

What shifted things for me was a piece of research from 1967. A psychologist named Hans Eysenck proposed something called the structural weakness model, and it reframes the whole picture. Instead of a straight line from emotional wound to physical symptom, he placed a third variable above both: your underlying biological structure. Shaped by genetics and early environment, it branches in two directions at once. Your emotional sensitivity is one branch. Your physical vulnerability is the other. They're not causing each other. They share a root.

For me, that means my adenomyosis and my sensitivity aren't a sign that I haven't healed enough. My body just processes the world more intensely. That's my baseline. And my life needs to be designed around that, not in spite of it.

Why the "issues are in your tissues" framework can become its own kind of hypervigilance, and what to reach for insteadWhat Eysenck's structural weakness model actually says about the relationship between emotional sensitivity and physical illnessHow understanding your biological baseline changes the goal of somatic healing entirely

If you've ever felt like your body was punishing you for not healing fast enough, I think this one will land. Come listen.

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