When the Body Speaks, Listen: How Trauma, Stress, and Spiritual Disconnect Show Up as Symptoms
For years, I treated my symptoms like enemies.
The fatigue, the gut pain, the anxiety, the brain fog—I fought them like battles to be won. I tried to suppress them, silence them, and outsmart them with protocols and plans.
But it wasn’t until I finally slowed down and listened that I realized:
My body wasn’t attacking me. It was speaking to me.
And more than that—God was speaking through my body.
Your Symptoms Are Messages, Not Malfunctions
We live in a culture that teaches us to suppress, override, or medicate anything uncomfortable.
We’ve been conditioned to see symptoms as problems—annoyances to be fixed, evidence that we’re broken, or punishment for not doing “enough.”
But what if your body is doing exactly what it’s supposed to do?
What if the fatigue is asking you to rest?
What if the anxiety is pointing to something unsafe or unresolved?
What if the chronic illness isn’t your identity—but your body’s cry for connection, safety, or stillness?
When the body speaks, it does so in whispers at first:
A little tension in your jaw
That afternoon crash
The lump in your throat when you want to cry but can’t
If we ignore those whispers, the body begins to scream.
How Trauma and Stress Get Trapped in the Body
If you’ve ever experienced trauma—whether a single event or the slow erosion of chronic stress—your nervous system remembers.
You may have moved on mentally, but your body didn’t forget.
It stored what you couldn’t process at the time: the fear, the shame, the grief, the unmet need for safety.
This is why you might be:
Exhausted no matter how much you sleep
Easily triggered by things others brush off
Hyper-independent and burned out
Constantly inflamed or in pain with “normal” labs
Your nervous system is still trying to protect you from a threat that already passed.
But healing begins when we tell the body: You are safe now. You don’t have to keep fighting.
The Spiritual Disconnect: When We Forget Who We Belong To
Sometimes the most painful symptom is the feeling that we’re disconnected from our Source.
When we are spiritually misaligned—when we’re operating out of fear, hustle, shame, or self-reliance—we often drift further from peace.
We stop hearing God’s voice because we’re too busy trying to fix ourselves without Him.
“Come to Me, all who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.” – Matthew 11:28
Our soul longs to come home.
And the body knows it.
You might be surprised how your healing accelerates when you return to that spiritual alignment—when you surrender, pray, rest, and trust. Not just as a belief, but as a daily posture.
Learning to Listen Again
Listening to the body doesn’t mean obsessing over every twinge or overanalyzing every sensation.
It means becoming present enough to ask:
What is this trying to tell me?
Is this pain asking me to slow down?
Is this tension holding a story that hasn’t been spoken?
Is this inflammation protecting a part of me that still feels unsafe?
It means partnering with God in your healing—not trying to do it all alone.
💡 Tip: Next time you feel a symptom arise, pause. Place your hand over your heart or your belly and ask, “Lord, what is this really about?” Then listen.
This Is Why I Coach the Way I Do
I don’t coach from a place of “fixing.”
I coach from a place of remembering—who you are, how your body was created to heal, and how deeply God wants to meet you in the middle of your pain, not just at the end of it.
My approach is trauma-informed, spirit-led, and rooted in nervous system wisdom.
We don’t chase symptoms—we listen to them.
We don’t override the body—we honor it.
We don’t try to become someone else—we return to who God created us to be.
An Invitation to Listen and Begin Again
If your body has been speaking in ways that confuse you, frustrate you, or scare you—please know you are not alone.
There is nothing shameful about having symptoms. There is nothing weak about needing rest. There is nothing unspiritual about feeling exhausted.
You are not broken. You are being called back to yourself.
Back to God.
Back to safety.
Back to wholeness.
🕊 Prayer for the Reader:
God, help me stop ignoring the messages You’ve placed in my body.
Give me the courage to slow down, to feel, to listen.
Lead me back to alignment—with You, with my body, with truth.
Let my healing begin not through force, but through faith.
Amen.
