Healing Crisis, what is it and how do we deal with it?

The first thing you might encounter on the road to feeling better is sometimes a bit of feeling worse before you get better. You can encounter these as just a mildly bad feeling after a particularly deep massage, chiropractic, reflexology or other alternative therapy. Your body is working to clear out toxins and this may come in the form of digestive distress, a bad taste in your mouth, watery eyes, a dry cough or other forms of detox.

While it may be easy in the moment to reach for a pill to chase these blues away it is important to allow the body to go through it's natural "cleaning out" process. Suppressing the symptoms with pills will immediately halt the bodies natural process of detoxification. So if you can tough it out, it's best to do so.

Here is a great article on the healing crises from Spirituality and Health by Jolene Nolte.

https://www.spiritualityhealth.com/articles/2021/04/02/healing-crisis