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Breast Complaints
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Also known as: mastalgia · breast pain · mammary complaints · breast tension · breast gland pain · sore breasts · breast pulling · feeling of tightness in the breast · sensitive breasts · breast complaints before menstruation
Your Body Is Speaking
The breast is one of the most sensitive areas of your body — and one of the most heavily charged with meaning. Tension, hardening, swelling, pain, cysts, inflammation: when your breasts cause you trouble, it is not just any organ responding. It is the area of your body that, like no other, stands for care, nourishment, and emotional warmth.
Medicine treats breast complaints according to their cause — hormonal, inflammatory, structural. And that is important. But the psychosomatic perspective asks an additional question: what is happening in your emotional life that is showing itself in precisely this area of the body? Why is it the breast that is speaking — the place so closely linked to tenderness, self-reference, and the balance between giving and receiving?
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