Indigestion

The food sits in your stomach like a stone. Heavy, motionless, as if your body has forgotten what to do with it. The belly presses, nausea rises, and sometimes everything comes back up — as if your system is saying: I cannot process this — not now, not like this.

Medically speaking, indigestion is an umbrella term for disturbed digestive processes — from stomach pressure to a feeling of fullness to vomiting. Acid production, motility, enzymes — much can fall out of balance on the physical level. But when the complaints keep recurring, when they appear in specific phases of life or in moments of particular stress, a deeper question arises: What exactly can your inner self not digest right now? And what if what lies heavy in your stomach is not the food at all — but life itself?