Emotions Are Seeds: How Unprocessed Feelings Take Root in the Body and Shape Our Health
Have you ever wondered why certain areas of your body feel heavy, tight, or tender, especially during times of emotional stress? It's not your imagination. Our emotions are like energetic seeds planted deep within the tissues of our body. When nurtured and processed, these seeds can blossom into growth and healing. But when ignored or suppressed, they take root in unhealthy ways, manifesting as physical symptoms, chronic tension, or even illness.
In holistic health, we understand that emotions don’t simply “go away.” They’re stored in our energy system and cellular memory in our tissues. And when left unprocessed, they can become imbalances in the physical body leading to dis-ease, discomfort, and a diminished state of wellness.
The Emotional Body: Where Ancient Wisdom Meets Modern Wellness
Across cultures and healing traditions—from Traditional Chinese Medicine to Ayurveda and Indigenous plant wisdom, it's long been understood that emotions are intimately connected to our organs and systems. For example:
Grief often lodges in the lungs.
Anger tends to root itself in the liver.
Fear is stored in the kidneys.
Worry burdens the stomach and spleen.
Heartache lives in the heart chakra and chest.
As a Holistic Herbalist and Reiki Master, I often witness how clients’ physical symptoms are mirrors of unprocessed emotional stories. A tight chest may carry unresolved grief. Digestive issues may stem from anxiety and overthinking. Skin conditions may reflect suppressed anger or inner turmoil.
And yet, most of us were never taught how to safely feel, express, and move through our emotions. Instead, we were encouraged to “be strong,” “get over it,” or “stay positive.” The result? A mental health crisis marked by burnout, depression, anxiety, and deep spiritual disconnection.
Why Processing Emotions Is Vital for Health & Healing
Emotions are energy in motion. They are meant to move through us, not get stuck within us. When we ignore, suppress, or bypass them, they don’t disappear, they just shift into our energetic and physical bodies.
This is why physical symptoms are sacred messengers. They’re not here to punish us, they’re invitations to look within and listen more deeply to that inner voice.
Our state of health and wellness isn’t only about eating well or exercising. True wellness involves energetic alignment, emotional freedom, and spiritual clarity.
Unprocessed emotions, unresolved trauma and ancestral grief passed down through generations of our family line, can linger in our energy field, influencing our health choices, patterns, habits and behaviours
3 Soulful Ways to Move Emotions Through the Body
If you’re ready to release what no longer serves you and reclaim your health, here are three supportive, holistic ways to begin processing emotions naturally and gently:
1. Energy Healing (Reiki + Sound Healing)
Reiki gently clears energetic blockages and encourages emotional release at the soul level. Combined with other healing modalities such as: sound healing, shamanic drumming and even humming (check it out, its a thing!!) it brings the body into a vibrational state where deep healing can occur. It supports your parasympathetic nervous system, allowing the body to rest, digest, and repair.
Try: A weekly Reiki session or a guided sound bath meditation to soothe your nervous system and unlock stored emotions.
2. Herbal Medicine & Bach Flower Remedies
Plants carry wisdom. They speak to the emotional body and offer gentle, vibrational support to the nervous system and heart. Herbs like lemon balm, passionflower, and motherwort are beautiful allies for calming the mind and easing emotional overwhelm. Bach Flower Remedies—especially Rescue Remedy, Star of Bethlehem (for shock and grief), and Willow (for resentment and bitterness), support emotional rebalancing.
Try: A custom herbal tincture or flower essence blend made specifically for you by your qualified natural health care practitioner.
3. Astrology & Intuitive Insight
Your birth chart is a soul map, offering insight into where emotional patterns and ancestral themes may be held in your body. Through the ancient guidance from our skies, we can uncover core wounds, emotional blind spots, and karmic cycles. Understanding your personal energy blueprint can help you release old stories and reclaim your path with clarity.
Try: An intuitive astrology session to uncover deeper emotional roots and patterns in your life path.
Seek Support to Heal the Roots, Not Just the Symptoms
It takes courage to look inward. And you don’t have to do it alone.
Working with a qualified natural health practitioner can help you uncover layers of old trauma, grief, or emotional residue you may not even be aware of, sometimes passed down through family lines and ancestral history.
Together, we can:
Offer a deeper understanding to our physical challenges and the emotions that could be stored there
Support detoxification and emotional release through herbalism and energy work
Create a nourishing treatment plan that’s unique to your journey and aspirations
Final Thoughts: Healing is remembering
Your body holds the wisdom. Every symptom is a insight into that wisdom, waiting to be heard.
We are in a collective moment of awakening on the planet, a time of many shifts, changes and new ways of being. One of these new ways of being is realizing that our healing must be holistic for it to be most successful. We don’t just have a sore elbow, knee or health challenge. Physical, emotional, and spiritual health are not separate. By learning to process our emotions and listen to our bodies, we can return to a place of balance. The more we become an expert on ourselves, listening & trusting our inner connection more than the information we can search on the internet, the more we can take responsibility for our health choices and feel empowered to make them with our best interests at heart.
And from that place, true wellness begins.
Ready to begin your transformation? Get in touch. Let’s plant seeds of healing together.