I had a young woman who was a traveling nurse who came in with sciatica. She was getting shooting pains down the backside of her leg. She also had sharp pains in her low back.
She was losing power in her legs and when she went to the gym she just didn’t have the same energy that she used to. She wasn’t sure what had happened. She was in pain and needed relief.
As we started working together I noticed her apologizing more than she needed to, she was playing nice for me, and I contacted her gently, asking if she may have needed to play nice in childhood with her family. She also rolled her ankles to the outside edge when she was expressing something uncomfortable. Ankle rolling can indicate childhood trauma.
We built trust and she began expressing what was hard for her with her family, how she felt she had to take care of her mom and brother, her mother was emotionally unstable and unavailable and she became the caregiver and emotional laborer for her family. She also had a feeling of not feeling safe in this area where she felt the sensations of sciatica, and in her lower back, and in the presence of work she noticed this area was connected to these feelings. As we unraveled the layers of fascia more was revealed, she found memories surfacing of experiences she didn’t know she was storing.
As she expressed them, while centered in present awareness, she was able to fully feel each feeling, and to release the emotional and physical trauma that her tissue was holding. These.
