Dark Circles Under the Eyes

You see it every morning in the mirror. Dark shadows beneath your eyes — brownish, greyish, sometimes almost violet. You look tired even though you have slept. You look exhausted even though you are functioning. The world can see in you what you will not admit to yourself: that you are carrying life more heavily than it needs to be carried.

Medically, dark circles can have many causes — from genetic predisposition to iron deficiency to sleep deprivation. The skin beneath the eyes is the thinnest anywhere on the body, and every change beneath it becomes immediately visible. From a psychosomatic perspective, a different question arises: What is darkening your view of life? What weighs on you so heavily that it literally inscribes itself into your face?

Dark circles are not an illness. They are a mirror — and what they show is a person who has forgotten that life is also allowed to be light.