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periods","Whatever my situation, I make peace with who I am and where I stand today with regard to children.",[301,302,303,304,305,306],"Menorrhagia","Heavy menstrual bleeding","Heavy bleeding","Heavy flow","Long periods","Ménorragies","reproductive-system",{"type":309,"value":310,"toc":440},"minimark",[311,316,320,349,352,356,359,364,367,371,378,382,385,389,392,396,399],[312,313,315],"h2",{"id":314},"what-heavy-periods-are","What heavy periods are",[317,318,319],"p",{},"Heavy periods, or heavy menstrual bleeding (menorrhagia), means losing so much blood during a period that it affects daily life. Signs include needing to change a pad or tampon every one to two hours, using two types of protection at once, bleeding through to clothes or bedding, passing large clots, or periods that last longer than seven days. Heavy periods are common, and for many people they have always been that way.",[317,321,322,323,328,329,333,334,338,339,343,344,348],{},"Often no cause is found. Known causes include ",[324,325,327],"a",{"href":326},"\u002Freproductive-system\u002Ffibroids","fibroids"," and polyps in the womb, ",[324,330,332],{"href":331},"\u002Freproductive-system\u002Fendometriosis","endometriosis"," and adenomyosis, polycystic ovary syndrome, an ",[324,335,337],{"href":336},"\u002Fthyroid\u002Fhypothyroidism","underactive thyroid",", bleeding disorders such as von Willebrand disease, some medicines such as blood thinners, a copper coil, and the hormonal changes of the years before the menopause. Heavy periods can also be painful (see ",[324,340,342],{"href":341},"\u002Freproductive-system\u002Fmenstrual-pain","period pain","), and the regular blood loss can lead to iron-deficiency ",[324,345,347],{"href":346},"\u002Fheart-and-circulation\u002Fanaemia","anaemia",".",[317,350,351],{},"A doctor will usually ask about your periods, check for anaemia with a blood test, and may arrange an examination or an ultrasound scan. Effective treatments exist: a hormonal coil, the contraceptive pill or other hormones, tranexamic acid, anti-inflammatory painkillers, iron supplements, and, when needed, procedures to remove fibroids or polyps or to thin the lining of the womb.",[312,353,355],{"id":354},"the-emotional-meaning-of-heavy-periods","The emotional meaning of heavy periods",[317,357,358],{},"Blood carries life through the body. Spiritually, bleeding that is heavier and longer than it should be, with blood that does not clot as it should, is often linked to a loss you cannot hold back: a feeling that something is slipping away from you.",[360,361,363],"h3",{"id":362},"a-loss-you-cannot-control","A loss you cannot control",[317,365,366],{},"The flow does not stop when you want it to. This can mirror something in your life that escapes you, a situation where you feel you no longer have a hold. The question is what you feel is running out of your hands right now.",[360,368,370],{"id":369},"feelings-about-having-children","Feelings about having children",[317,372,373,374,377],{},"Heavy periods are linked to the question of children. For some, it is a difficulty accepting the idea of having children. For others, it is a great loss of joy about not being able to have them, whether because of infertility or because contraception is being used to avoid a pregnancy for now. These feelings can be mixed and hard to say out loud, including to yourself. There is no right answer to this question, and none of it means that your body is failing or being punished. If you are grieving a child you have not had, that ",[324,375,376],{"href":237},"grief"," deserves care and room.",[360,379,381],{"id":380},"your-place-as-a-woman","Your place as a woman",[317,383,384],{},"You may feel you are losing your place as a woman, or searching for who you are. The spiritual interpretation speaks of two sides of yourself that want to meet and be reconciled, which it calls the inner angel and the inner devil: the part of you that does what is expected, and the part that wants something else. What do you really want?",[360,386,388],{"id":387},"tenderness-pleasure-and-the-couple","Tenderness, pleasure and the couple",[317,390,391],{},"Heavy periods can also raise questions about your needs. How can you meet your need for tenderness and pleasure? Is there a situation in your relationship that you can no longer bear, and that you need to change? Sometimes the loss that cannot be stopped points to something that has been tolerated for too long.",[312,393,395],{"id":394},"a-gentler-way-to-hold-it","A gentler way to hold it",[317,397,398],{},"The aim is not to blame yourself for heavy periods. Fibroids, hormones, the thyroid and blood clotting all play real roles, and the warning signs above need a doctor. The emotional perspective invites you to look at what you feel you are losing, and at what you want.",[400,401,402,410,416,422,428,434],"ul",{},[403,404,405,409],"li",{},[406,407,408],"strong",{},"Name what is slipping away."," Notice which part of your life feels out of your control, and say it.",[403,411,412,415],{},[406,413,414],{},"Be honest about children."," Let yourself feel what you truly feel, whether it is wanting, not wanting, waiting or grieving.",[403,417,418,421],{},[406,419,420],{},"Make peace with where you are."," Your situation today is a stage, not a verdict on your worth as a woman.",[403,423,424,427],{},[406,425,426],{},"Listen to both sides of you."," Give the part of you that wants something different a chance to speak.",[403,429,430,433],{},[406,431,432],{},"Ask for tenderness."," Tell your partner, or someone close, what you need.",[403,435,436,439],{},[406,437,438],{},"Look at what you can no longer bear."," One honest change in a relationship can bring a great deal of relief.",{"title":441,"searchDepth":18,"depth":18,"links":442},"",[443,444,450],{"id":314,"depth":18,"text":315},{"id":354,"depth":18,"text":355,"children":445},[446,447,448,449],{"id":362,"depth":26,"text":363},{"id":369,"depth":26,"text":370},{"id":380,"depth":26,"text":381},{"id":387,"depth":26,"text":388},{"id":394,"depth":18,"text":395},"2026-10-08","The emotional and spiritual meaning of heavy periods: a loss you cannot control, your place as a woman, and making peace with where you are about children.","md","menstrual-cycle",[],[457,460],{"name":458,"url":459},"NHS: Heavy periods","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.nhs.uk\u002Fconditions\u002Fheavy-periods\u002F",{"name":461,"url":462},"MedlinePlus: Vaginal Bleeding","https:\u002F\u002Fmedlineplus.gov\u002Fvaginalbleeding.html",{},true,"\u002Fconditions\u002Freproductive-system\u002Fheavy-periods",[467,468,469,470,471,472],"What in my life feels as if it is slipping out of my control?","How do I really feel about having, or not having, children right now?","Is there a sadness about children that I have never let myself feel?","Do I feel I have my place as a woman, in the way that is true for me?","Which two sides of me are asking to be reconciled?","What situation in my relationship can I no longer bear, and what would I need to change?",[341,326,346,331,336],[475,476],"https:\u002F\u002Fen.wikipedia.org\u002Fwiki\u002FHeavy_menstrual_bleeding","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.wikidata.org\u002Fwiki\u002FQ1494682",{"title":298,"description":452},"Heavy Periods Spiritual Meaning: Menorrhagia & Emotions",[480],{"author":481,"work":482,"entries":483,"pages":485},"Jacques Martel","Le Grand Dictionnaire des Malaises et des Maladies",[484],"Menstruation — Ménorragies","276","conditions\u002Freproductive-system\u002Fheavy-periods","Spiritually, heavy periods are often linked to a feeling that something is slipping away from you. They can point to your place as a woman, to complicated feelings about having or not having children, and to unmet needs for tenderness in your relationship.","If this reading resonates with you, a quiet moment to listen to what you truly want, without judging it, can be a good next step.",[363,381,490,491,492,493],"Feelings about children","Searching for your identity","Inner reconciliation","Unmet needs for tenderness",[495,496,497,498,499,500,501],"Soaking through a pad or tampon every hour for several hours in a row, or passing very large clots. Seek urgent medical help.","Feeling dizzy, faint, short of breath or having a racing heart during heavy bleeding. Call emergency services or go to A&E.","Heavy bleeding or severe pain when you might be pregnant. Seek urgent medical help, as this can be a miscarriage or an ectopic pregnancy.","Any bleeding after the menopause, between periods, or after sex. See a GP, as this always needs checking.","Periods that are heavier or longer than usual for you, that last more than seven days, or that stop you from going about your life.","Tiredness, breathlessness or pale skin, which can be signs of iron-deficiency anaemia. A simple blood test can check.","If you have been prescribed a treatment or a coil, do not stop it because of anything you read here. Talk to your doctor if you want to change it.","p1DqwO9cogL8eR1wcnfkEQHxk3xjsO1-cZJW5bJU-S8",{"id":504,"title":67,"body":505,"comingSoon":10,"dateModified":682,"datePublished":683,"description":68,"extension":453,"groups":684,"guides":703,"icon":70,"medicalSources":705,"meta":706,"navigation":464,"order":65,"path":69,"reflectionQuestions":707,"seo":714,"seoTitle":715,"sources":716,"stem":724,"themes":725,"whenToSeeADoctor":730,"__hash__":737},"areas\u002Fareas\u002Freproductive-system.md",{"type":309,"value":506,"toc":669},[507,515,518,524,528,531,534,538,542,545,549,552,556,559,563,566,570,577,581,584,588,591,617,621,628,631],[317,508,509,510,514],{},"The reproductive system is what allows life to be passed on. In women, it includes the ovaries, the uterus and the monthly cycle regulated by hormones. In men, it includes the testicles and ",[324,511,513],{"href":512},"\u002Freproductive-system\u002Fprostate","the prostate",". Beyond reproduction, these organs are closely linked to hormones, energy, mood and the way we experience our body and our sexuality.",[317,516,517],{},"In the emotional and symbolic approach to health, the reproductive organs are linked to the masculine and feminine principles that exist in each of us, to creativity and to the pleasures of life. When they are affected, it can be an invitation to look at how we live our identity as a woman or a man, and how freely we let our creative energy flow.",[519,520,521],"note",{},[317,522,523],{},"This page offers a symbolic and emotional perspective. It is meant to complement medical care, never to replace it. If you have severe pain, abnormal bleeding or any change in your reproductive health, see a doctor or a gynaecologist.",[312,525,527],{"id":526},"what-your-reproductive-system-represents","What your reproductive system represents",[317,529,530],{},"In this approach, the genital organs are linked to the masculine and feminine principles in each of us, and to the seat of sexual energy. This energy centre is associated with the pleasures of life and with creativity.",[317,532,533],{},"The ovaries represent the desire to have children, but also creativity, the ability to create, femininity, and feeling fulfilled as a woman. The uterus symbolises womanhood and is seen as the home of creativity. It also represents the power to give birth, security and warmth: a refuge. The prostate represents the masculine principle and power. In this approach, a healthy prostate is associated with knowing clearly where we are going, listening to our inner voice, living our emotions and being able to release what is too much.",[312,535,537],{"id":536},"common-emotional-themes","Common emotional themes",[360,539,541],{"id":540},"how-we-live-our-identity","How we live our identity",[317,543,544],{},"A central question is how we feel as a woman or a man. Do we find it hard to combine our different roles, such as partner, parent, professional, lover? Do we feel we are going backwards, or that we do not fit what is expected of us?",[360,546,548],{"id":547},"creativity","Creativity",[317,550,551],{},"Problems with the ovaries or the uterus may be an invitation to develop our creativity, which can give us back the power to manage our own life. This creativity can take many forms, not only having children.",[360,553,555],{"id":554},"deep-secret-feelings","Deep, secret feelings",[317,557,558],{},"The pelvic area touches our deepest and most secret feelings. Guilt, shame or loneliness may weigh on us there. In this approach, an unresolved grief, for example around having or not having children, or not having the family we hoped for, may play a part.",[360,560,562],{"id":561},"relationships-and-mirrors","Relationships and mirrors",[317,564,565],{},"We may feel out of tune with our partner and blame them for our unhappiness. What we see in the other often reminds us of what we dislike in ourselves, because they act as our mirror.",[360,567,569],{"id":568},"letting-go-of-those-we-love","Letting go of those we love",[317,571,572,573,576],{},"For parents, ",[324,574,575],{"href":294},"worries"," about children or grandchildren growing up, being in danger or living differently from us can also be felt in this area. Each person lives their life in their own way, and we have no power over other people's lives.",[360,578,580],{"id":579},"inner-authority","Inner authority",[317,582,583],{},"For men in particular, the prostate is linked to allowing our own inner authority to guide our choices, rather than being carried away by artificial values.",[312,585,587],{"id":586},"reading-the-signs-which-organ-is-affected","Reading the signs: which organ is affected",[317,589,590],{},"In this approach, the organ that is affected can add nuance. Take these as questions to explore:",[400,592,593,599,605,611],{},[403,594,595,598],{},[406,596,597],{},"The ovaries"," relate to creativity, femininity and feeling fulfilled as a woman.",[403,600,601,604],{},[406,602,603],{},"The uterus"," relates to womanhood, security, our deepest feelings and the possibility of \"giving birth\" to new parts of ourselves.",[403,606,607,610],{},[406,608,609],{},"The menstrual cycle"," relates to how we accept our femininity and the cyclical nature of our body.",[403,612,613,616],{},[406,614,615],{},"The prostate"," relates to masculine power, direction in life and inner authority.",[312,618,620],{"id":619},"caring-for-your-reproductive-health-from-the-inside","Caring for your reproductive health from the inside",[317,622,623,624],{},"The idea is not to blame yourself. Hormones, genetics, infections, age and many medical factors play a real role in reproductive health. The emotional perspective simply adds another question: ",[625,626,627],"em",{},"how freely do I let my creative and vital energy flow?",[317,629,630],{},"A few gentle practices can support this inner work:",[400,632,633,639,645,651,657,663],{},[403,634,635,638],{},[406,636,637],{},"Reconnect with your body."," Notice its rhythms and needs with kindness rather than judgment.",[403,640,641,644],{},[406,642,643],{},"Express your creativity."," Painting, writing, cooking, gardening, building a project: all creation counts.",[403,646,647,650],{},[406,648,649],{},"Honour your grief."," If there is a loss or a disappointment linked to family, give it space to be felt.",[403,652,653,656],{},[406,654,655],{},"Let your inner child live."," The part of you that is love, joy and hope deserves room in your adult life.",[403,658,659,662],{},[406,660,661],{},"Release control over others."," Those you love are free to live their own lives.",[403,664,665,668],{},[406,666,667],{},"Keep up your check-ups."," Regular gynaecological or prostate check-ups are an important part of caring for yourself.",{"title":441,"searchDepth":18,"depth":18,"links":670},[671,672,680,681],{"id":526,"depth":18,"text":527},{"id":536,"depth":18,"text":537,"children":673},[674,675,676,677,678,679],{"id":540,"depth":26,"text":541},{"id":547,"depth":26,"text":548},{"id":554,"depth":26,"text":555},{"id":561,"depth":26,"text":562},{"id":568,"depth":26,"text":569},{"id":579,"depth":26,"text":580},{"id":586,"depth":18,"text":587},{"id":619,"depth":18,"text":620},"2026-10-06","2026-09-30",[685,688,691,695,699],{"id":454,"title":686,"description":687},"Menstrual cycle","Period pain and premenstrual symptoms, often linked to how we live our femininity, our cycles and our emotions.",{"id":332,"title":689,"description":690},"Endometriosis","Womb-like tissue growing outside the womb, and the questions it raises about a mother, a nest, and a place of one's own.",{"id":692,"title":693,"description":694},"menopause","Menopause","The change of life, read as a pause for taking stock, desire, and a femininity that wants room.",{"id":696,"title":697,"description":698},"male-reproductive","Male reproductive health","Prostate and male reproductive problems, often linked to masculine power, direction and inner authority.",{"id":700,"title":701,"description":702},"ovaries-and-vagina","Ovaries and vagina","Ovarian and vaginal problems, often linked to creativity, intimacy and the freedom to be a woman.",[704],"\u002Fguides\u002Faffirmations-by-body-part",[],{},[708,709,710,711,712,713],"How do I feel about being a woman, or a man, in my life today?","Do I allow my creativity to express itself?","Is there a grief or a disappointment linked to family or children that I have not yet worked through?","Do I accept my body and its rhythms, or do I fight them?","Do I allow myself pleasure, rest and joy?","Do I listen to my own inner authority, or to outside expectations?",{"title":67,"description":68},"Reproductive Problems: Spiritual Meaning & Emotional Causes",[717],{"author":481,"work":482,"entries":718,"pages":723},[719,720,721,722],"Génitaux (organes ...) (en général)","Ovaires (en général)","Prostate (en général)","Utérus (en général)","196, 314, 355, 417–418","areas\u002Freproductive-system",[548,726,727,728,729,580],"Femininity","Masculinity","Self-acceptance","Pleasure",[731,732,733,734,735,736],"Severe pelvic or abdominal pain, especially if you might be pregnant. Seek urgent medical care.","Very heavy bleeding, soaking a pad or tampon every hour, or bleeding with dizziness.","Bleeding between periods, after sex or after the menopause.","Pain during sex, or unusual discharge.","A lump, swelling or pain in the testicles.","Difficulty passing urine, a weak stream or needing to go often at night.","7I87BRI3WL_Atl8VtUweG5UOKZP9EjqkfeiE6gAWw_I",[739,896,1027,1125,1339],{"id":740,"title":741,"affirmation":742,"aka":743,"area":748,"body":749,"dateModified":846,"datePublished":846,"description":847,"extension":453,"group":848,"guides":849,"medicalSources":851,"meta":858,"navigation":464,"path":859,"reflectionQuestions":860,"related":867,"sameAs":869,"seo":872,"seoTitle":873,"sources":874,"stem":879,"summary":880,"supportIntro":881,"themes":882,"whenToSeeADoctor":888,"__hash__":895},"conditions\u002Fconditions\u002Fheart-and-circulation\u002Fanaemia.md","Anaemia","I say yes to the energy that can serve this life. I live my own life, and I recognise what I deeply want.",[744,745,746,747],"Anemia","Low haemoglobin","Iron deficiency","Low hemoglobin","heart-and-circulation",{"type":309,"value":750,"toc":841},[751,755,758,762,765,768,771,790,793,807,809],[312,752,754],{"id":753},"what-anaemia-is","What anaemia is",[317,756,757],{},"Anaemia is a drop in haemoglobin, the pigment in red blood cells that carries oxygen. Iron sits at the centre of that pigment, which is where oxygen and carbon dioxide bind. Iron deficiency is the most common kind. Blood loss, including heavy periods or bleeding in the gut, a diet low in iron, pregnancy, and trouble absorbing iron can all bring it on. Other anaemias come from a lack of vitamin B12 or folate, from long illness, or from the bone marrow itself. You may look pale, feel exhausted, get breathless on stairs, or notice a heart that races. The cause is found with a blood test. Iron tablets, B12 injections, food, and treatment of whatever is losing the blood are ordinary care. They belong with a clinician, because taking iron without knowing the type can do harm.",[312,759,761],{"id":760},"the-emotional-meaning-of-anaemia","The emotional meaning of anaemia",[317,763,764],{},"Blood is read as the joy of living, as love, and as the emotions. This state sits with a lack of joy, of strength, and of depth in the love you have for yourself and for others. It sits with doubts about your ability to love with any real force or determination. It sits with discouragement, with a refusal of life, with the impression of having no worth, and with a resistance to love that ends in devaluing yourself.",[317,766,767],{},"You devalue the very things that carry you. Hopes. Aspirations. You live in \"yes, but\", with little interest, feeling restricted by everything, and so you conclude that your deepest wishes cannot be realised. You have the impression you are going to collapse, or that your life or your family is crumbling into crumbs. What used to transport you no longer seems worth much. You need other people to prop you up, because you do not feel strong enough for your own deep desires. Despair and resignation can be there. You feel undermined, weak, and you go pale from the sense of being drained. It is as if someone were drawing the blood out of you, and you are left in pieces.",[317,769,770],{},"You may feel you are suffocating in your surroundings, often in a family you feel apart from. The question is why you have to go all the way to exhaustion before the people you love recognise you. Life's events can be met with a great rigidity. All of this is read against a great weakness in the blood.",[317,772,773,774,777,778,781,782,785,786,789],{},"Two puns carry the iron. In English, iron sits beside \"I run\". In French, ",[625,775,776],{},"fer"," sounds like ",[625,779,780],{},"faire",", to do. The anaemic person, in this hearing, no longer feels enough joy or motivation to do everything there is to do. There is a lack of doing, and no strength left to run after what you want. You have the impression you cannot do what the situation needs, or that what you do is not right. The questions follow. Why refuse the energy that is available to you? What are you afraid of? ",[625,783,784],{},"Se ronger les sangs"," is the French for eating yourself up with ",[324,787,788],{"href":294},"worry",". What is doing that to you?",[317,791,792],{},"A deep feeling of not having been loved by your family may be there, and a conflict about the love of your clan. You have no motivation, because you do not know what, at the bottom, actually pleases you. You are not in touch with your inner life. The future looks blurred, uncertain, dangerous. Negative thoughts toward yourself drain the energy. It is as if physical reality itself cannot be taken in.",[317,794,795,797,798,801,802,806],{},[324,796,233],{"href":234}," belongs in the questions. So does the ",[324,799,800],{"href":35},"heart's"," blood, already read on the page for ",[324,803,805],{"href":804},"\u002Fheart-and-circulation\u002Fhigh-cholesterol","high cholesterol"," as a joy that has trouble circulating.",[312,808,395],{"id":394},[400,810,811,817,823,829,835],{},[403,812,813,816],{},[406,814,815],{},"Say yes to the energy"," that is ready to serve this life with love.",[403,818,819,822],{},[406,820,821],{},"Choose food with care",", the food that feeds the body and the blood and rebuilds strength, alongside whatever the blood test asks for.",[403,824,825,828],{},[406,826,827],{},"Look for the joy that is already around you",", in family, work and friends.",[403,830,831,834],{},[406,832,833],{},"Live your life rather than someone else's",", and recognise your deep desires.",[403,836,837,840],{},[406,838,839],{},"Keep the medical plan."," The blood test, the iron or the B12, and the search for a bleed stay with your clinician.",{"title":441,"searchDepth":18,"depth":18,"links":842},[843,844,845],{"id":753,"depth":18,"text":754},{"id":760,"depth":18,"text":761},{"id":394,"depth":18,"text":395},"2026-10-04","The emotional and spiritual meaning of anaemia (anemia): joy, love and strength that have thinned, and a life lived in \"yes, but\".","blood",[850],"\u002Fguides\u002Fgetting-sick-often",[852,855],{"name":853,"url":854},"NHS: Iron deficiency anaemia","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.nhs.uk\u002Fconditions\u002Firon-deficiency-anaemia\u002F",{"name":856,"url":857},"MedlinePlus: Anemia","https:\u002F\u002Fmedlineplus.gov\u002Fanemia.html",{},"\u002Fconditions\u002Fheart-and-circulation\u002Fanaemia",[861,862,863,864,865,866],"Where has the joy, the strength, or the depth of my love gone thin?","Do I doubt that I can love with any real force?","What aspiration have I decided is no longer worth much?","Who do I feel is draining me, and why do I go to exhaustion to be recognised?","What am I afraid of, and what has me eating myself up with worry?","Am I living someone else's life, because I have lost touch with what actually pleases me?",[804,868],"\u002Fwhole-body\u002Ffatigue",[870,871],"https:\u002F\u002Fen.wikipedia.org\u002Fwiki\u002FAnemia","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.wikidata.org\u002Fwiki\u002FQ5445",{"title":741,"description":847},"Anemia (Anaemia): Spiritual Meaning & Emotional Causes",[875],{"author":481,"work":482,"entries":876,"pages":878},[877],"Sang — Anémie","375–376","conditions\u002Fheart-and-circulation\u002Fanaemia","Anaemia is a lack of haemoglobin, so the blood carries less oxygen and the body feels drained. It is read as a joy, a love and a strength that have thinned, and as a life lived in \"yes, but\".","If this reading resonates with you, looking for where your joy and your own desires went thin, and feeding the body the clinician recommends, can be a good next step.",[883,884,885,886,233,887],"Joy of living","Love","Discouragement","Family","Worth",[889,890,891,892,893,894],"Chest pain, fainting, or breathlessness at rest. Call emergency services.","Black stools, vomiting blood, or very heavy periods. Seek urgent medical care.","Unusual paleness, exhaustion, a racing heart, or dizziness that is new.","A blood test before you start iron tablets. Extra iron is harmful in some conditions.","Anaemia in pregnancy, or in a child.","Do not stop iron, B12 or any other prescribed treatment because of anything you read here.","iojvppWrzLRtRskHYLoY7JPMr3Ge0QS_zLE6gYVCXCQ",{"id":897,"title":689,"affirmation":898,"aka":899,"area":307,"body":901,"dateModified":846,"datePublished":846,"description":981,"extension":453,"group":332,"guides":982,"medicalSources":983,"meta":990,"navigation":464,"path":991,"reflectionQuestions":992,"related":999,"sameAs":1001,"seo":1004,"seoTitle":1005,"sources":1006,"stem":1011,"summary":1012,"supportIntro":1013,"themes":1014,"whenToSeeADoctor":1019,"__hash__":1026},"conditions\u002Fconditions\u002Freproductive-system\u002Fendometriosis.md","I say what I feel, and I take my place as myself. My creativity has room to move.",[900],"Endo",{"type":309,"value":902,"toc":976},[903,907,914,918,921,928,931,934,940,942],[312,904,906],{"id":905},"what-endometriosis-is","What endometriosis is",[317,908,909,910,913],{},"Endometriosis is tissue similar to the lining of the womb that grows outside the womb. It may sit on the ovaries, the lining of the pelvis, the bowel or the bladder, and sometimes further away. It answers to the monthly hormones, so it can swell and bleed in a place that has little room for blood. The usual picture is painful periods, pain with sex, pain when opening the bowels or passing urine, heavy bleeding, and, for some, difficulty conceiving. Others have little pain and find it another way. The cause is not settled. It is not decided by wanting a child or by not wanting one. Care is pain relief, hormone treatment, and sometimes surgery, chosen with a clinician. ",[324,911,912],{"href":341},"Period pain"," that takes over a life is a reason to be examined, not a reason to wait.",[312,915,917],{"id":916},"the-emotional-meaning-of-endometriosis","The emotional meaning of endometriosis",[317,919,920],{},"The tissue is womb lining that has taken a place outside the wall of the womb. The spiritual interpretation gathers its questions there, around motherhood, a mother, and whether there is a nest you can trust.",[317,922,923,924,927],{},"Often the relationship with your mother, or the inheritance she left, in the body and in the feeling, sits in conflict with who you are and with the place you want in the world. You may not know how to stand in relation to a woman who was so influential. Speaking brings the ",[324,925,926],{"href":234},"fear"," of turning her against you. A question follows that is only a question. Your parents may have loved each other, and you may be denying that.",[317,929,930],{},"If you come from a family that broke apart, the fear can be that the family you would offer a child would not be perfect, would not be good enough. It is as if that child's nest were somewhere else, and you could not welcome them properly at home. Is there a doubt about the couple? A fear that you, or your partner, might look elsewhere? Do your hopes, and the life of the couple, make you afraid that a child would change everything? You may doubt your ability to be a good mother. You may fear that the home of a child still to come would be outside your house. The example given is a child who would spend most of their days in someone else's care, and the fear that they would come to feel that other place, or that other person, was the real home.",[317,932,933],{},"It can also be that you do not accept the world you live in, or do not dare to take part in it. If you cannot accept this world, how would you bring another being into it? And yet you chose to come here before you were born. The question turns toward yourself. What makes it hard to accept yourself as you are, and to give your creativity a channel?",[317,935,936,937,939],{},"You may let people walk over you, and swallow everything without a word. The impression is of having no strength to stand up and assert yourself, and of living one failure after another. ",[324,938,191],{"href":192}," can rise because you know you are stopping yourself from doing things, and because staying with an aim is hard.",[312,941,395],{"id":394},[400,943,944,949,954,960,966,971],{},[403,945,946],{},[406,947,948],{},"See the link between the fear, the doubt, the uncertainty, and the situation you are in.",[403,950,951],{},[406,952,953],{},"Say openly what you feel.",[403,955,956,959],{},[406,957,958],{},"Assert yourself as a person."," Recognise what you are.",[403,961,962,965],{},[406,963,964],{},"Stop handing your place away."," If someone is harming you, get to safety and get help. Respect is something you are allowed to require.",[403,967,968],{},[406,969,970],{},"Let creativity express itself.",[403,972,973,975],{},[406,974,839],{}," Pain care, hormones, and any surgery a clinician recommends stay with them.",{"title":441,"searchDepth":18,"depth":18,"links":977},[978,979,980],{"id":905,"depth":18,"text":906},{"id":916,"depth":18,"text":917},{"id":394,"depth":18,"text":395},"The emotional and spiritual meaning of endometriosis: questions about a mother, a nest, creativity and having a place of your own.",[],[984,987],{"name":985,"url":986},"NHS: Endometriosis","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.nhs.uk\u002Fconditions\u002Fendometriosis\u002F",{"name":988,"url":989},"MedlinePlus: Endometriosis","https:\u002F\u002Fmedlineplus.gov\u002Fendometriosis.html",{},"\u002Fconditions\u002Freproductive-system\u002Fendometriosis",[993,994,995,996,997,998],"What is unfinished between me and my mother, in the body or in the feeling she left me?","Am I afraid that speaking will turn her against me?","Do I doubt that the home I would offer a child could be good enough?","Am I afraid a child would change the couple, or that one of us might look elsewhere?","Where do I swallow what I think, and then feel I have no strength to stand?","What do I want to make, and what keeps me from staying with it?",[341,1000],"\u002Freproductive-system\u002Fovarian-cysts",[1002,1003],"https:\u002F\u002Fen.wikipedia.org\u002Fwiki\u002FEndometriosis","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.wikidata.org\u002Fwiki\u002FQ205764",{"title":689,"description":981},"Endometriosis: Spiritual Meaning & Emotional Causes",[1007],{"author":481,"work":482,"entries":1008,"pages":1010},[1009],"Endométriose","171","conditions\u002Freproductive-system\u002Fendometriosis","Endometriosis is tissue like the womb lining growing outside the womb. The spiritual interpretation sits with questions about a mother, a nest, and whether you have a place of your own.","If this reading resonates with you, looking at the fear around a mother, a child, or your own place, and saying it out loud, can be a good next step.",[1015,1016,548,233,1017,1018],"Mother","A place of one's own","Doubt","Assertiveness",[1020,1021,1022,1023,1024,1025],"Period pain that stops you working, sleeping or leaving the house.","Pain during sex, or pain on opening the bowels or passing urine, especially around a period.","Very heavy bleeding, or bleeding with dizziness.","Difficulty becoming pregnant.","Do not stop a hormone treatment or pain medicine you were prescribed because of anything you read here.","A new severe pelvic pain, or pain with fever or fainting. Seek urgent care.","Wz33sgQat38smVr7GcQzxnTfhg0F9XVafFzMtGteoho",{"id":1028,"title":1029,"affirmation":1030,"aka":1031,"area":307,"body":1035,"dateModified":1087,"datePublished":1087,"description":1088,"extension":453,"group":454,"guides":1089,"medicalSources":1090,"meta":1094,"navigation":464,"path":1095,"reflectionQuestions":1096,"related":1100,"sameAs":1102,"seo":1105,"seoTitle":1106,"sources":1107,"stem":1112,"summary":1113,"supportIntro":1114,"themes":1115,"whenToSeeADoctor":1118,"__hash__":1124},"conditions\u002Fconditions\u002Freproductive-system\u002Ffibroids.md","Fibroids","I can speak what I have carried, and I can turn towards the life that is still mine.",[1032,1033,1034],"Uterine fibroids","Fibromyoma","Womb fibroids",{"type":309,"value":1036,"toc":1080},[1037,1041,1044,1048,1051,1057,1061,1064,1067,1069],[312,1038,1040],{"id":1039},"what-fibroids-are","What fibroids are",[317,1042,1043],{},"A fibroid is a benign tumour made of fibrous and muscular tissue. Most grow in the womb. They are common, especially through the forties, and many cause no trouble at all. Others bring heavy periods, pain, or a sense of pressure. They are not a decision about whether you should have had a child. Treatment, when it is needed, ranges from leaving them alone to medicines or an operation. A clinician makes that call from the scan and the bleeding, not from a story about the past.",[312,1045,1047],{"id":1046},"the-emotional-meaning-of-fibroids","The emotional meaning of fibroids",[317,1049,1050],{},"The womb is read as the seat of motherhood, femininity, and sexuality, and so of the home and the family. Fibroids are placed next to an emotional shock in that field. The questions are concrete. Were you wounded by a partner, hit by a hard word or a hard event, and never able to say so in a way that restored the peace? Are shame, guilt, or a long confusion still living there, perhaps from a first sexual experience or from a pregnancy that stopped? If the shock was abuse, the step is safety and help. The growth is not the proof that you failed to manage it.",[317,1052,1053,1054,1056],{},"There can be an inner emptiness that gets filled in a surface way, by doing what other people do, while your own needs stay in flight. ",[324,1055,269],{"href":270}," towards someone who hurt you may still be fed. Questions about having a child, or about not having one, may be live. So may the feeling that you carry other people and feed them because you have become indispensable. A wish for renewal, and a refusal to let your creative, adventurous side show, can sit in the same season.",[360,1058,1060],{"id":1059},"the-forties-and-what-was-not-born","The forties, and what was not born",[317,1062,1063],{},"Fibroids often appear around the time a woman realises the childbearing years are narrowing. You may already have decided not to have a child, or not to have another. Guilt about the number of children, or about none, is a feeling, spiritually, to look at. It does not assemble the tissue. The same pages speak of a baby imagined with a particular partner and never conceived, and of a project you spent a long time bringing to the point of life, which then did not take shape. The image offered is a fibroid as that unborn thing, transposed into the body. Read it as an image of a grief or a plan that never got its day. The mass itself is muscle and fibre. It is not a child, and it is not a verdict that it is too late for a life.",[317,1065,1066],{},"What the spiritual interpretation does ask is speech. With a partner, or with someone in the family, say what you feel. Stop keeping a knowledge that only you have carried. Shame and confusion can be met with the fact that you acted from what you knew then. Creativity, turned towards what you actually love, is the direction that replaces going over the past.",[312,1068,395],{"id":394},[400,1070,1071,1074,1077],{},[403,1072,1073],{},"Say one thing you have kept from the person it concerns.",[403,1075,1076],{},"Separate a real grief about a child, or a project, from the scan in front of you. Both can be true. They are not the same fact.",[403,1078,1079],{},"A wish that is still yours can have a form that is not a pregnancy.",{"title":441,"searchDepth":18,"depth":18,"links":1081},[1082,1083,1086],{"id":1039,"depth":18,"text":1040},{"id":1046,"depth":18,"text":1047,"children":1084},[1085],{"id":1059,"depth":26,"text":1060},{"id":394,"depth":18,"text":395},"2026-10-05","The emotional and spiritual meaning of uterine fibroids: a benign growth in the womb, and a hurt, a secret, or a creative life that was never given words.",[],[1091],{"name":1092,"url":1093},"NHS: Fibroids","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.nhs.uk\u002Fconditions\u002Ffibroids\u002F",{},"\u002Fconditions\u002Freproductive-system\u002Ffibroids",[1097,1098,1099],"What hurt in my closest life have I never found a way to say?","Where am I feeding everyone else and leaving my own wish unnamed?","What creative impulse have I been refusing, while calling it too late?",[341,331,1101],"\u002Freproductive-system\u002Fmenopause",[1103,1104],"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.wikidata.org\u002Fwiki\u002FQ556281","https:\u002F\u002Fen.wikipedia.org\u002Fwiki\u002FUterine_fibroid",{"title":1029,"description":1088},"Fibroids: Spiritual Meaning & Emotional Causes",[1108],{"author":481,"work":482,"entries":1109,"pages":1111},[1110],"Fibromes utérins et kystes féminins","pp. 184–185","conditions\u002Freproductive-system\u002Ffibroids","A fibroid is a benign growth of fibrous tissue, most often in the womb. It is read as a shock around home, femininity, or a creative life that stayed unspoken.","If this reading resonates with you, a gentle practice can sit beside the scans and the choices your clinician offers.",[1116,1117,547],"the womb","an unspoken hurt",[1119,1120,1121,1122,1123],"Heavy bleeding, pain, pressure on the bladder, or a swelling you can feel needs a doctor.","Bleeding after the menopause needs prompt assessment.","A fibroid is usually benign.","Surgery, a hormone medicine, or watching and waiting is a clinical decision.","If a past hurt was an assault or you are not safe, get to safety and ask for help.","OCA9E-I8SXGWpPciBjRQxamXnaNvaTnLbMZkPr_e92s",{"id":1126,"title":1127,"affirmation":1128,"aka":1129,"area":307,"body":1134,"dateModified":683,"datePublished":683,"description":1295,"extension":453,"group":454,"guides":1296,"medicalSources":1297,"meta":1304,"navigation":464,"path":1305,"reflectionQuestions":1306,"related":1313,"sameAs":1315,"seo":1318,"seoTitle":1319,"sources":1320,"stem":1325,"summary":1326,"supportIntro":1327,"themes":1328,"whenToSeeADoctor":1331,"__hash__":1338},"conditions\u002Fconditions\u002Freproductive-system\u002Fmenstrual-pain.md","Menstrual pain","I live in harmony with my body and its cycles. I let my emotions and my creative energy flow freely.",[912,1130,1131,1132,1133],"Menstrual cramps","Dysmenorrhoea","Dysmenorrhea","Period cramps",{"type":309,"value":1135,"toc":1282},[1136,1140,1158,1164,1167,1171,1174,1178,1185,1189,1196,1200,1203,1207,1210,1214,1217,1221,1228,1232,1235,1237,1240],[312,1137,1139],{"id":1138},"what-menstrual-pain-is","What menstrual pain is",[317,1141,1142,1143,1147,1148,1152,1153,1157],{},"Menstrual pain, or dysmenorrhoea, is cramping pain in the lower abdomen that happens just before or during a period. It can spread to the ",[324,1144,1146],{"href":1145},"\u002Fback\u002Flower-back-pain","lower back"," and thighs, and sometimes comes with nausea, ",[324,1149,1151],{"href":1150},"\u002Fhead\u002Fheadaches","headaches",", tiredness or ",[324,1154,1156],{"href":1155},"\u002Fdigestive-system\u002Fdiarrhoea","diarrhoea",". It is extremely common: most people who menstruate experience it at some point, and for some it is severe enough to disrupt daily life.",[317,1159,1160,1161,1163],{},"Primary dysmenorrhoea, the most frequent kind, has no underlying disease. It is caused by prostaglandins, substances that make the uterus contract to shed its lining. It usually starts in adolescence and often eases with age. Secondary dysmenorrhoea is caused by a condition such as ",[324,1162,332],{"href":331},", adenomyosis or fibroids, and tends to start later or worsen over time. Heat, exercise, anti-inflammatory painkillers and hormonal contraception often help, and persistent or severe pain deserves a medical check-up.",[317,1165,1166],{},"The emotional reading below does not replace this. It offers another angle, for those who feel that their cycle also reflects how they live as a woman.",[312,1168,1170],{"id":1169},"the-emotional-meaning-of-menstrual-pain","The emotional meaning of menstrual pain",[317,1172,1173],{},"In the emotional approach, the menstrual cycle is linked to how we accept our femininity and the cyclical nature of our body. Period pain is often read as a sign of tension in this relationship.",[360,1175,1177],{"id":1176},"guilt-and-anger","Guilt and anger",[317,1179,1180,1181,1184],{},"Painful periods are often associated with guilt and ",[324,1182,1183],{"href":198},"anger",". These feelings may have deep roots, sometimes in painful experiences from the past that deserve to be looked at with care, ideally with professional support.",[360,1186,1188],{"id":1187},"refusing-the-constraints-placed-on-women","Refusing the constraints placed on women",[317,1190,1191,1192,1195],{},"Menstrual pain may appear when we struggle with our condition as a woman: when we are indignant at the place given to women in society, or at the rules we feel we must submit to. It may also relate to ",[324,1193,1194],{"href":270},"resentment"," towards men, our father, or the male figure who marked our childhood.",[360,1197,1199],{"id":1198},"perfectionism","Perfectionism",[317,1201,1202],{},"Period pain is also linked to perfectionism: being very demanding with ourselves and expecting the same behaviour from others.",[360,1204,1206],{"id":1205},"wanting-to-be-loved-as-we-are","Wanting to be loved as we are",[317,1208,1209],{},"If we had the feeling that our parents were disappointed to have a daughter, we may have tried to look or act like a boy in order to be loved. In this approach, rejecting our femininity, and sometimes our sexuality, can make the cycle harder to live.",[360,1211,1213],{"id":1212},"feelings-about-motherhood","Feelings about motherhood",[317,1215,1216],{},"Each period may also carry, even unconsciously, a subtle disappointment at not being pregnant, and a vague feeling of loneliness. This does not depend on whether we consciously want a child.",[360,1218,1220],{"id":1219},"holding-back","Holding back",[317,1222,1223,1224,1227],{},"More broadly, menstrual difficulties are associated with resistance to our sexual power, or to our potential for motherhood and creativity. We may feel powerless, hold back our emotions, and find it hard to let go. The more ",[324,1225,1226],{"href":279},"sorrow"," we carry, the heavier the flow may be.",[312,1229,1231],{"id":1230},"what-changes-in-the-cycle-may-suggest","What changes in the cycle may suggest",[317,1233,1234],{},"If periods become lighter or stop, or on the contrary become heavier, it is worth looking at whether one of the themes above has become more present in our life. Any change in the cycle should also be checked with a doctor.",[312,1236,395],{"id":394},[317,1238,1239],{},"The aim is not to blame yourself for your period pain. It has real physical causes, and severe pain is never something you just have to put up with. The emotional perspective simply invites you to look at how you live your femininity.",[400,1241,1242,1248,1258,1264,1270,1276],{},[403,1243,1244,1247],{},[406,1245,1246],{},"Accept your cycles."," Your body works in rhythms. Living in harmony with them, rather than fighting them, can ease tension.",[403,1249,1250,1253,1254,1257],{},[406,1251,1252],{},"Let emotions flow."," Give your feelings, including anger and ",[324,1255,1256],{"href":273},"sadness",", a safe place to be expressed.",[403,1259,1260,1263],{},[406,1261,1262],{},"Soften your perfectionism."," You do not have to be perfect, and neither do others.",[403,1265,1266,1269],{},[406,1267,1268],{},"Make peace with being a woman."," Notice the beliefs you carry about femininity, and question those that hurt you.",[403,1271,1272,1275],{},[406,1273,1274],{},"Focus on the positive."," Put your attention on what you want to create in your life.",[403,1277,1278,1281],{},[406,1279,1280],{},"Care for your body."," Heat, gentle movement, rest and appropriate pain relief can all help during your period.",{"title":441,"searchDepth":18,"depth":18,"links":1283},[1284,1285,1293,1294],{"id":1138,"depth":18,"text":1139},{"id":1169,"depth":18,"text":1170,"children":1286},[1287,1288,1289,1290,1291,1292],{"id":1176,"depth":26,"text":1177},{"id":1187,"depth":26,"text":1188},{"id":1198,"depth":26,"text":1199},{"id":1205,"depth":26,"text":1206},{"id":1212,"depth":26,"text":1213},{"id":1219,"depth":26,"text":1220},{"id":1230,"depth":18,"text":1231},{"id":394,"depth":18,"text":395},"The emotional and spiritual meaning of period pain: how it may relate to guilt, anger, perfectionism and your relationship with your femininity.",[704],[1298,1301],{"name":1299,"url":1300},"NHS: Period pain","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.nhs.uk\u002Fsymptoms\u002Fperiod-pain\u002F",{"name":1302,"url":1303},"MedlinePlus: Period Pain","https:\u002F\u002Fmedlineplus.gov\u002Fperiodpain.html",{},"\u002Fconditions\u002Freproductive-system\u002Fmenstrual-pain",[1307,1308,1309,1310,1311,1312],"How do I feel about being a woman, and about the rules I feel I must follow as one?","Is there anger I carry towards men, my father or a male figure from my childhood?","Am I very perfectionist, and do I expect the same from others?","Did I ever feel that my family would have preferred a boy?","Which emotions am I holding back, and what do I find hard to let go of?","Do I accept that my body works in cycles?",[1314,1145],"\u002Freproductive-system\u002Fpremenstrual-syndrome",[1316,1317],"https:\u002F\u002Fen.wikipedia.org\u002Fwiki\u002FDysmenorrhea","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.wikidata.org\u002Fwiki\u002FQ816422",{"title":1127,"description":1295},"Period Pain: Spiritual Meaning & Emotional Causes",[1321],{"author":481,"work":482,"entries":1322,"pages":1324},[1323],"Menstruation (maux de ...)","273–274","conditions\u002Freproductive-system\u002Fmenstrual-pain","Menstrual pain is often read as a sign of tension with our own femininity. Guilt, anger at the constraints placed on women, perfectionism and emotions held back may make the cycle harder to live.","If this reading resonates with you, giving yourself a gentler rhythm around your period, with rest and warmth, can be a good next step.",[726,1177,1199,1329,1330],"Held-back emotions","Letting go",[1332,1333,1334,1335,1336,1337],"Severe pelvic pain, especially if you might be pregnant, or pain with fever or fainting. Seek urgent medical care.","Pain that is not relieved by usual painkillers, or that stops you from going to school or work.","Pain that gets worse over the years, or pain during sex or bowel movements. These can be signs of endometriosis.","Very heavy bleeding, soaking a pad or tampon every hour, or periods lasting more than seven days.","Bleeding between periods or after sex.","Period pain that starts suddenly after years of painless periods.","px1Ie3k8URhxjAU-ylNqAPQXZgJ_XHK4L3c-9aZhhXY",{"id":1340,"title":1341,"affirmation":1342,"aka":1343,"area":1348,"body":1349,"dateModified":846,"datePublished":846,"description":1427,"extension":453,"group":1348,"guides":1428,"medicalSources":1431,"meta":1438,"navigation":464,"path":1439,"reflectionQuestions":1440,"related":1447,"sameAs":1448,"seo":1451,"seoTitle":1452,"sources":1453,"stem":1458,"summary":1459,"supportIntro":1460,"themes":1461,"whenToSeeADoctor":1464,"__hash__":1471},"conditions\u002Fconditions\u002Fthyroid\u002Fhypothyroidism.md","Hypothyroidism","I stay in contact with what I feel and with my body. I have what I need to face my responsibilities, and I let life support me the way the wind supports a kite.",[1344,1345,1346,1347],"Underactive thyroid","Myxoedema","Low thyroid","Myxedema","thyroid",{"type":309,"value":1350,"toc":1422},[1351,1355,1358,1369,1373,1376,1379,1381,1384],[312,1352,1354],{"id":1353},"what-hypothyroidism-is","What hypothyroidism is",[317,1356,1357],{},"Hypothyroidism is an under-functioning of the thyroid, an insufficiency of thyroid hormone. The physical causes include a disordered immune system, destruction of the gland by a thyroiditis with or without antibodies, and, in some parts of the world, a lack of iodine. The results are familiar: a rise in cholesterol, fatigue, tingling and coldness of the hands and feet, constipation, slower reflexes, a larger tongue, and a mood that sinks. Treatment replaces the hormone the gland is not making. It is usually simple, it is monitored by blood tests, and it is not optional if the tests say you need it. Discouragement can appear with the illness. It can also have other causes. A test tells them apart.",[317,1359,1360,1361,1365,1366,1368],{},"The emotional reading below asks about communication, creativity and a situation you keep meeting. It does not replace thyroxine. ",[324,1362,1364],{"href":1363},"\u002Fthyroid\u002Fhyperthyroidism","Hyperthyroidism"," is the opposite pace of the same gland. The ",[324,1367,1348],{"href":165}," page is the wider centre of the word.",[312,1370,1372],{"id":1371},"the-emotional-meaning-of-hypothyroidism","The emotional meaning of hypothyroidism",[317,1374,1375],{},"Discouragement can appear, leaving you morose, defeatist, and with the feeling of being misunderstood. The body is transmitting an SOS. The throat centre is tied to communication and to creativity. How is your communication with yourself, with the people close to you, and with others? How do you exercise creativity in what you do? What is the rancour you carry that is eating you from the inside? Where does this absence of desire, in relation to your life, come from?",[317,1377,1378],{},"Hypothyroidism is also placed with an inability to face a situation that reappears several times in your life, and that you do not know how to react to. You have to go gently, and that asks a lot of you, at work or in your relationships. You are \"too quick off the mark\", and you have to slow down, give time to yourself and to the other person as well. You want to flee your responsibilities. You prefer to live in an unreal world. You create an artificial security. You find it hard to resign yourself, because you feel overwhelmed by events.",[312,1380,395],{"id":394},[317,1382,1383],{},"You stay in contact with your emotional body and your physical body. You are safe, and you have everything you need to face your responsibilities. You are a creator of your life. You communicate harmony around you. Confident, you see life with a new gaze. You let yourself be supported by life, the way a kite is supported by the wind. The tablet, if you have been prescribed one, is part of that support. It is not in competition with it.",[400,1385,1386,1392,1398,1404,1410,1416],{},[403,1387,1388,1391],{},[406,1389,1390],{},"Have the blood test."," Slowness has many causes. Hormone lack is one of them, and it is measurable.",[403,1393,1394,1397],{},[406,1395,1396],{},"Do not change the dose."," Feeling \"more yourself\" is not a reason to stop.",[403,1399,1400,1403],{},[406,1401,1402],{},"Ask about communication and creativity."," The throat is the centre this gland is tied to.",[403,1405,1406,1409],{},[406,1407,1408],{},"Name the rancour that eats from within."," Absence of desire sits beside it.",[403,1411,1412,1415],{},[406,1413,1414],{},"Look at the situation that keeps returning."," Not knowing how to react is the picture of having to go more slowly.",[403,1417,1418,1421],{},[406,1419,1420],{},"Notice the flight into an unreal safety."," Overwhelmed is allowed. Inventing a world where the responsibility disappears is the move to question.",{"title":441,"searchDepth":18,"depth":18,"links":1423},[1424,1425,1426],{"id":1353,"depth":18,"text":1354},{"id":1371,"depth":18,"text":1372},{"id":394,"depth":18,"text":395},"The emotional and spiritual meaning of hypothyroidism: how it may relate to discouragement, a resentment that eats from within, and a wish to flee a situation that keeps returning.",[1429,1430],"\u002Fguides\u002Fjacques-martel-dictionary","\u002Fguides\u002Flouise-hay-list",[1432,1435],{"name":1433,"url":1434},"NHS: Underactive thyroid (hypothyroidism)","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.nhs.uk\u002Fconditions\u002Funderactive-thyroid-hypothyroidism\u002F",{"name":1436,"url":1437},"MedlinePlus: Hypothyroidism","https:\u002F\u002Fmedlineplus.gov\u002Fhypothyroidism.html",{},"\u002Fconditions\u002Fthyroid\u002Fhypothyroidism",[1441,1442,1443,1444,1445,1446],"How is my communication with myself, with the people close to me, and with everyone else?","How am I using creativity in what I do?","Which resentment is eating me from the inside?","Where has desire, in relation to my life, gone absent?","Which situation keeps returning, that I do not know how to meet?","Where am I going too fast, and where would slowing down be the honest pace?",[1363],[1449,1450],"https:\u002F\u002Fen.wikipedia.org\u002Fwiki\u002FHypothyroidism","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.wikidata.org\u002Fwiki\u002FQ16501",{"title":1341,"description":1427},"Hypothyroidism (Underactive Thyroid): Spiritual Meaning",[1454],{"author":481,"work":482,"entries":1455,"pages":1457},[1456],"Glande thyroïde — Hypothyroïdie","207","conditions\u002Fthyroid\u002Fhypothyroidism","Hypothyroidism is an underactive thyroid, with real physical causes and a treatment that replaces the missing hormone. It is read alongside discouragement, a creativity that has gone quiet, and a situation you do not know how to meet.","If this reading resonates with you, asking which returning situation you do not know how to meet can be a good next step, without changing the dose of hormone you have been prescribed.",[885,1462,548,269,1463],"Communication","Fleeing responsibility",[1465,1466,1467,1468,1469,1470],"Tiredness, feeling cold, weight gain, constipation, dry skin, low mood, or a puffy face. A blood test diagnoses an underactive thyroid. Do not guess from how slow life feels.","You are already treated and the symptoms are returning. The dose may need a change. Do not adjust it yourself.","A swelling in the neck, difficulty swallowing, or a hoarse voice.","Confusion, extreme drowsiness, or a very low temperature. Severe hypothyroidism is an emergency.","You are pregnant or planning to be. Thyroid hormone matters for the pregnancy and the dose is often changed.","Iodine, supplements and \"glandulars\" can harm. Treatment is levothyroxine or whatever your clinician prescribes, taken as directed.","iAoAeMh91jbUxAbp0GR9bEdtrNDpt8VYnGYZ9a_f8kI",[],[],1791456537057]