I’m sure all of us are familiar with the phrase Body keeps the score, but do we really follow through or just dismiss it as easily as we dismiss our intuition? I’m sure there is a pattern here.

In life we all go through different things, some difficult, some less difficult but I like to believe that each one of us got the exact number of obstacles and advantages even though it seems like some people have it easier or harder than others. Regardless of the difficulty level, all these things leave a mark on our health. Especially when we ignore the signs, especially when we supress our emotions and/or discomfort. That’s why I often envy the people who are eager to react in the moment and just get it all out of their system, even though it’s not always a good option, it’s still better than to just sweep it under a rug and go about your day.

Because one day, your body will sound the alarm. And it sounds all of them. It happened to me more than once, and it keeps on happening each time I try to dismiss it or just sweep it under a rug and I’m always wondering should I just accept the things I know are not in an alignment with me or should I fight it until I see the way out? Either way, my body sounds all the alarms, so I end up with not so easy to deal with symptoms. So, I push through until it happens again. And the cycle never ends.

The question here is not how to treat the symptoms, but what lies beneath them? It’s usually something that is stirring up all of this; be it a job, a toxic environment, a relationship, something, because our bodies know. They always know, even before we can even process it. So, my question is how do people deal with this? We all know that illnesses and symptoms correlate to emotional distress of any kind and breath work, yoga, a workout, journaling doesn’t help, do you just cut it out without any back up plan or how does one plan the escape?

If anyone asked me this question, my answer would be plain and simple: leave. Leave the job, leave the person, leave the place. But when it comes to me taking my own advice, that’s where I draw the line. I believe that’s also unfair. We usually impose invisible blockages and, in that way, prevent the blessings from coming into our lives, usually by making excuses such as but if I quit, how will I find another job, if I leave this person, how will I afford to live alone, what will my family say. This is where the fear takes over because if you are not at least a little brave in life, how will you achieve anything?

I’m not saying that you should just leave although you could, but also you should quietly plot the escape. If I can dig out celebrity gossip, I can surely dig out a way out that works for me. Because when I think about it, all these paths lead me out. All the paths I walked in the past, all the paths I’m walking now, are circling back to me and to what I would like my life to look. Not what society wants me to do, not what my family wants me to do.

So, instead of listing all my symptoms that are getting increasingly worse each day, maybe I should take action and literally write my escape plan because, honestly, your girl is made for everything except corporate and corporate with numbers, endless data in numbers, depressing industries, toxic colleagues and what not. Sooo let’s go?