Stomach Complaints

Your stomach presses, burns, cramps, or rebels. Perhaps after eating, perhaps on an empty stomach, perhaps without any recognizable trigger. Medicine speaks of gastritis, irritable stomach, functional dyspepsia — and often enough finds no clear cause. The findings are unremarkable, but the pain is real.

This is no coincidence. The stomach is the organ that receives food, breaks it down, and passes it on. It takes in what is raw and transforms it into something the body can process. When this process is disturbed, it is worth looking more closely — not just at the stomach's contents, but at what you are trying to digest emotionally.

There is a reason why language is so precise: Something is weighing on your stomach. You cannot digest it. It hits you in the stomach. Your stomach is speaking — and not about food.