Reproductive System Unwinding: A Personal Reflection 

This is another personal story I wanted to share following the completion of my blog series on nervous system unwinding across various systems of the body In this entry, I’m focusing on the reproductive system through the lens of my own experience.

This blog entry is probably going to confuse people because I’m going to be talking about some pretty personal stuff. Before I go further into all of it, I just want you to know that speaking about this is not easy for me because when I have spoken about it to friends, they have not had very good reactions to this particular type of information.

I promise that everything said here Was done by a professional and I was in no way in any kind of danger or misconduct. I myself am a massage therapist and understand certain modalities that touch upon certain areas of the body that people may not be aware of. To some people who are more familiar with massages in the traditional sense, this could be a little surprising.

The Fall of 2020

Starting right when COVID hit in 2020, I was experiencing a lot of overwhelming symptoms. Unfortunately, I wasted everybody’s time going to the emergency room because I truly did think that something was very wrong with me.

As you can imagine, I left feeling pretty defeated and kind of bad. I will say though, that I did feel a lot better, and I do think that was because of the saline bag. Having that seemed to take away the issues for the short term.

Once the Fall hit, the symptoms came back, and they came back even more intense than before. I knew I wasn’t going to be able to get any help from the doctors as I had already spoken to 3 at this point and I kept being told the same thing; that I was depressed and that I needed to take an antidepressant.

The only other option I had was to work with a very specialized type of massage therapist that has training in visceral manipulation. I just happened to be in the right place at the right time to find this particular type of massage therapist. A big bonus was that this guy used to be a registered nurse in his earlier career.

The Treatments

So, there’s a lot that I can say here. I have a lot of crazy stories that took place with this particular massage therapist. It’s important to note that I was always 100% clothed during all of our session. Also, something that I just recalled, it was at the peak of COVID and every session I had with him we were both masked. He and I never saw each other without the masks.

The main objective was to bring balance to the body. He explaining to me that when one area of the body is affected, it could be because other parts of the body are encouraging particular types of holding. This was very difficult for me to understand at first. I sometimes would go into session asking to address certain things and he wouldn’t necessarily. I sometimes would leave the appointments feeling confused.

A good Example of what I mean were the first 3 visits I had. I came in complaining about my arms. Those first visits he worked only on my face. This was the first time I considered the fall I had off a bunk bed as a possible reason for some of these sudden symptoms. What surprised me is that I would always feel so much better right after the sessions. But it would usually rebound extremely within three days, and I would have to go back.

I went to him on and off for about 2 years. We first worked on my face. Then down around the left should and left arm area. He worked there a lot for awhile. Eventually, he moved to the next portion of tension, which was down in my right hip area.

Accessing the Reproductive System

So this is the part where you might get a little freaked out.

When I got to the session, we worked again on the right hip area of my body. As he was working, he pointed out tension in my lower stomach. He then pointed out that my uterus was very tight. He’s able to access the uterus by simply placing his hand on the lower part of my stomach. He also gently pushing on my pelvic bone. I did start to feel release. All of this was done completely ethically and in no way made me feel uncomfortable at all.

It was interesting being able to feel the release in these areas. It helped for me to connect deeper to my body. What was even more interesting is that it explained this other strange phenomena. My pubic area in general would get extremely itchy. It was never really consistent as to why. I certainly went to doctors to check certain things out because you want to rule out things like an std.

But the bodywork being done was bringing insight that I seemed to be clenching within my pelvic region. He mentioned that the right side of my uterus seemed to be tighter than the left. This was interesting because I was also having issues with a lot of right hip pain. In addition to that, I’ve also sprained my right ankle very badly.

At This Present Time

I have currently been going through a thawing period. I have noticed again, this really horrible itching all around the pelvic region. It drives me absolutely insane, but I know now that this is part of some kind of nervous system discharge or unwinding. It could be that the lymphatic system is this area is finally moving around. Or tension in general is being released and my nerves are responding to the openness.

I haven’t gone to this particular massage therapist in over four years now. He did provide a lot of clues for me that I was able to take with me throughout this journey. Currently The goal now Is to stop fixing myself. Despite his incredible expertise, the Mentality I had at that time, was forcing healing. I realize it now that this was causing a lot of bypass.

But a lot was learned, and a lot was more understood. I had a lot of nervous system crashes throughout this period of time. It was confusing and I felt defeated through most of it. But it certainly wasn’t wasted.

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