Food Poisoning

Nausea, vomiting, diarrhea — your body is clearing house. Violently, painfully, without compromise. Medically the matter is clear: contaminated food, bacteria, toxins — the digestive tract responds with an emergency evacuation to expel the harmful as quickly as possible. This is a sensible mechanism. Your body is protecting itself.

But the psychosomatic perspective asks further: Why right now? Why you and not the other person who ate the same thing? What in your system was already so burdened that it became vulnerable to this collapse? Food poisoning does not strike by chance. It strikes an organism that has for a long time been digesting something that doesn't suit it — not on the plate, but in life.

Your body is expelling what doesn't belong to you. The question is whether you are ready to do the same at a deeper level.