Healing from Within: How Emotional Trauma and Upset can Impact Your Health
- Monica Naturopath
- 7 days ago
- 6 min read
Emotional pain and unresolved grief often linger beneath the surface, shaping how people feel physically and mentally. Many struggle with chronic illness, anxiety, or persistent body pain without realizing that their emotional experiences and beliefs may be deeply connected to these symptoms.
Our biography becomes our biology. The experiences we have had, the stories and emotions we carry can get stuck in the body, blocking energy flow and disrupting the healing process.
Combining emotional detox work with Advanced Health Reset FSM Therapy offers a powerful way to release these burdens from the tissues and support a new level of health recovery.
How Emotional Upset and Trauma Affect Physical Health
Emotions such as grief, fear, and distress are not confined to the mind. They are experienced through the body, shaping nervous system tone, hormonal signalling, and immune resilience. When emotional pain remains unresolved, the body can become locked in patterns of protection rather than repair, causing healing to stall.
Over time, unprocessed experiences may be held in the tissues and nervous system, contributing to persistent anxiety, low mood, and physiological imbalance. This is how lived experience can quietly shape physical health, creating cycles that are difficult to shift without addressing both the emotional and biological layers.
What Is FSM Therapy?
Frequency Specific Microcurrent (FSM) Therapy uses very low-level electrical currents applied at precise frequencies to specific tissues in the body. These frequencies communicate directly with the nervous system and cells, supporting the body’s innate capacity to regulate inflammation, restore hormonal signalling, and reduce pain. FSM is particularly helpful in chronic or complex conditions where the body has become stuck in patterns of stress, injury, or incomplete healing.
When combined with emotional detox and trauma-informed work within the same session, this work supports release in both physical and emotional holding patterns. As tension, inflammation, and nervous system overload ease, the body is able to shift out of survival mode and back toward repair and resilience. This integrative approach supports true healing by addressing the underlying drivers of symptoms, rather than simply managing their outward expression, and allows the body 'safety' signalling feedback to calm down the 'Cell Danger Response' (CDR) and move the system out of the alarm phase, into repair.
The Role of Emotional Work in Health Recovery
Emotional detox focuses on identifying and releasing unresolved emotional imprints that can influence physical health and nervous system regulation. When these emotional layers are cleared, space is created for new perceptions, emotional responses, and belief patterns to emerge, supporting both psychological and physiological resilience.
Clients often describe feeling lighter, clearer, and more capable of engaging with daily life. As a sense of safety returns to the body, chronic anxiety and emotional tension tend to soften, giving way to a quieter, more grounded state of inner calm. When emotional detox work is paired with Frequency Specific Microcurrent therapy, the body’s ability to respond and recalibrate is often amplified, supporting more efficient and complete recovery.
This process is gentle and non-intrusive. There is no need to relive or re-experience past events. Emotional patterns are identified and released at an energetic level, allowing the system to let go in a way that is simple, respectful, and often deeply transformative.
Practical Benefits of Combining Emotional Detox with FSM Therapy
Reducing chronic pain
In many long-standing pain conditions, the nervous system becomes sensitised and over-reactive, amplifying pain signals even after the original injury has resolved. Emotional stress and unresolved trauma can reinforce this heightened state, contributing to persistent muscle guarding, altered pain perception, and nerve sensitivity. By calming irritated tissues with FSM and releasing emotional drivers that keep the nervous system on high alert, pain patterns without clear structural causes may soften or resolve, particularly where other methods have failed.
Improving hormone balance
When the nervous system remains in a sensitised, threat-based state, hormonal signalling becomes disrupted, particularly through the hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal axis. Emotional detox work reduces the internal stress load, allowing the body to step out of chronic survival mode. FSM therapy further supports this shift by reducing inflammation and improving cellular communication, creating the conditions needed for more stable hormonal regulation.
Enhancing energy and vitality
A chronically activated nervous system consumes significant energy, diverting resources away from repair, digestion, and cognitive clarity. Emotional detox helps quiet this background stress response, while FSM supports tissue recovery and mitochondrial efficiency. As the system settles, energy previously tied up in pain, tension, and vigilance becomes available, often resulting in improved stamina, motivation, and a greater sense of vitality over time.
Improving sleep and mood
Heightened nervous system sensitivity interferes with the body’s ability to fully down-regulate, contributing to poor sleep, emotional volatility, and low mood. Emotional detox work supports nervous system safety and parasympathetic activation, while FSM helps settle inflamed or overstimulated pathways. Together, they promote deeper rest, more consistent mood, and improved emotional resilience.
Supporting Chronic Illness recovery
Many chronic illness presentations involve ongoing nervous system sensitisation layered with inflammation, exhaustion, pain, insomnia and emotional distress. FSM therapy works at a physiological level to reduce inflammation and support nervous system repair, while emotional detox helps release the fear, grief, and identity disruption that often accompany prolonged symptoms. Addressing all the layers simultaneously allows the system to reset itself, and gradually move away from protective overdrive and back toward regulation and recovery.
Real-Life Example
A client living with chronic exhaustion, pain and anxiety following COVID had experienced minimal improvement despite extensive engagement with mainstream treatments. Even basic daily tasks came at a high cost, often followed by profound exhaustion and the need to lie down. After completing the first four-session series, they began to notice a tangible shift, with an increased ability to move through the day before reaching their physical limit.
In the month following a second four-session series, their recovery gained momentum. Energy returned more reliably, pain levels softened, and each passing week brought a gradual expansion in capacity. Activities that had previously felt out of reach became manageable again, and motivation began to resurface alongside physical improvement.
Equally significant was the emotional change. The client described the return of hope, noting that the pervasive sense of despair that had accompanied their illness had lifted. Their family noticed the shift and described it as "exponential", they described them as vastly less reactive, more optimistic, and much easier to be around.
This experience underscores the importance of addressing both the physical and emotional dimensions of chronic debility, particularly in conditions such as long COVID, where prolonged symptoms can erode not only physical health but confidence, identity, and belief in recovery.
How to Start Your Healing Journey
Book a Free15 phone chat: Monica will call you to see if this work is aligned with you.
Commit to regular sessions: Healing takes time, especially when working through deep emotional patterns. We work with sessions blocks of four, allowing for each level / layer of work to unfold as the body's healing process is supported
Practice self-care: Support your body with good nutrition, hydration, and rest.
Stay open to emotional release: Allow yourself to integrate each session in the time following. We use homeopathic remedies to support integration of this process between sessions.
Track your progress: Notice changes in pain, mood, and energy over the course of treatment.
Support For Your Body, Mind and Emotions Together
Healing is most effective when the body, mind and emotions are treated as one system. Emotional detox work, together with FSM, support recovery by identifying and removing the obstacles to the body's innate intelligence and resiliency through the healing process. Supporting the vital force in this way can make a real difference in people's lives.
Resolving the holding patterns that keeps energy blocked and locked into cycles of pain and anxiety is a much overlooked aspect when it comes to healing. This integrated approach works deeply to support a restoration of innate balance, allowing clients to regain optimism and clarity in their lives.
The combination of these therapies is unique to Healthier By Choice. Not everyone works this way. Book a phone chat if you'd like to know if this work could help you https://www.healthierbychoice.com.au/about-fsm
