Physical Health and Trauma - How illness Develops
It’s often surprising just how deeply mental and emotional trauma can affect our physical health. But through my work with energy healing, I’ve seen firsthand how unresolved emotions, painful memories, and unprocessed trauma can eventually manifest as real, physical conditions—and how these issues can be healed once the trapped energy behind them is cleared.
How Trauma Creates Illness: What’s Really Happening
Whenever someone goes through a traumatic or emotionally overwhelming experience—whether moderate or severe—it naturally generates a huge amount of negative emotions and thoughts. These aren’t just “feelings,” they also carry an energetic charge.
Normally, when emotions are expressed and released, the negative energy leaves the body. But when emotions are suppressed, ignored, or simply too overwhelming to process, that negative energy remains inside.
There are many reasons this happens:
Social conditioning (“keep it together” “be strong”)
Fear of causing conflict
Feeling unsafe expressing emotions
Not knowing how to process trauma
Being shocked, frozen, or dissociated during the event
Avoiding processing the trauma afterward because it’s too painful
When these emotions stay trapped, they don’t just disappear. They continue to move around the body, creating tension, stress, and internal dysregulation. If the trauma was strong enough, or the emotions remain long enough, the negative energy begins to affect the physical system.
How the Body Responds to Trapped Emotional Energy
The body doesn’t want this negative energy flowing freely throughout your entire system because it would disrupt everything. So it does the next best thing:
It localizes the emotional energy and stores it in a specific area.
Think of it as the body trying to contain the problem so the rest of your system can continue functioning.
But because this stored energy is negative, it begins to disrupt the harmony of that specific area. Over time, this can lead to physical symptoms or even full-blown illness.
And interestingly, the location where the body stores these emotions often relates to the type of emotional or mental burden you’re carrying:
Back + shoulders → carrying heavy emotional burdens
Chest + lungs → pressure, overwhelm, grief, difficulty “breathing emotionally”
Heart area → heartbreak, emotional loss, betrayal
Throat → unable to express your truth
Head → overthinking, mental load, internal tension
Stomach → anxiety, fear, insecurity
Circulation → emotional coldness, isolation, lack of connection
These patterns show up over and over again. The phrase “my heart hurts” or “I can’t breathe” isn’t just metaphorical—these emotional states have energetic and physical consequences.
How Illness Forms From Trauma
The development of illness doesn’t always happen immediately.
Severe trauma can create symptoms quickly.
Chronic stress or unprocessed emotions can create illness gradually over years.
As long as the negative energy remains trapped, it continues to disrupt that area of the body. The cells, tissues, and energy pathways in that region lose balance. Over time, this can manifest as pain, dysfunction, chronic issues, or conditions that seem to “come out of nowhere.”
But in reality, nothing comes out of nowhere.
There is always an energetic root.
The Good News: Things Can Be Healed
The powerful thing is this:
If negative emotional energy can create the issue, clearing that energy can also heal it.
In my sessions, I work by locating where the trauma or emotional energy is stored and gently clearing it from the body. Layer by layer, the trapped thoughts, emotions, and energetic charge are released.
And what I’ve consistently seen is:
Physical symptoms soften
The body starts returning to balance
Pain decreases
Chronic tension dissolves
Energy levels rise
The system moves back into homeostasis
The body has an incredible ability to heal when the energetic blocks are removed.
You’re not stuck with the physical consequences of trauma.
You don’t have to live with symptoms that “don’t make sense.”
Healing is absolutely possible.
Once the emotional and energetic root is cleared, the body finally gets the chance to restore itself—exactly how it was designed to do.
Struggling With Physical Symptoms or an illness?
If you’ve been dealing with persistent aches, tension, or other health issues that don’t seem to have a clear cause, it could be linked to trapped emotional energy. Book a session with me to start clearing the energetic blocks and help your body return to balance and healing.