The International Association for the Study of Pain defines pain as an “unpleasant sensory and emotional experience.” Said another way, pain is both physical and emotional 100 percent of the time. It’s never just one or the other.

In 1991, Dr. John Sarno of NYU revolutionized treating physical symptoms when he published his book, “Healing Back Pain.” Dr. Sarno approached both the physical and emotional body, and created a roadmap to healing by leveraging Freudian psychology and unconscious emotions.

Put Simply, physical symptoms such as pain, dizziness, fatigue, migraines, irritable bowel syndrome, and many more are influenced by what it is we aren’t feeling. Learning how to correlate the two, and to discover stuck emotions that have yet to be expressed is path to getting your life back.