Our bellies can be wonderful monitors of our emotional health, and the truth can always be found there.

So often, emotions we long to express get stored in our bodies instead. The space where this most often happens is in our bellies. Rather than telling people, or even ourselves, the way we truly feel, we may stuff our true feelings deep inside of us, where they take up space until we are ready to let them go. Stuffing our feelings in our bellies may feel like the “safe” response since we then don’t have to deal with our emotions. Yet, doing so can be detrimental to our emotional well-being and physical health.