The Emotional Terrain of Healing

Why Resistance, Fatigue, and Unexpected Emotions Procure Progress

If you’ve recently started The STOPS or have begun implementing foundational changes in the HEM Program, you may feel something unexpected:

• A sudden wave of fatigue
• A deep emotional release (tears, frustration, anger, grief)
• An inner resistance—feeling overwhelmed, scattered, or even doubtful

From the outside, it might look like a setback.

But from a holistic standpoint, it’s actually a breakthrough.

🧠 The Science Behind the Layer of Emotional Resistance

The human body stores unresolved stress and trauma within its nervous system and subconscious mind—not just as memories, but as patterns of chemistry, muscle tension, breathing habits, and even mineral depletion.

When you begin removing stressors (such as The STOPS and ongoing emotional burden factors) and supporting bioavailable energy through foundational nutrients like magnesium and copper, the body finally has the cellular energy to address previously compartmentalized emotional and metabolic burdens.

This is because:

• Mitochondria (your energy factories) need minerals to run. Without enough, the body stays in conservation mode—focused on survival, not healing.
• Once energy availability improves, the limbic system (your emotional processing center) becomes more active and able to “clean house.”
• Stored emotions, unprocessed grief, or protective stress responses become exposed as the body unravels chronic stress.

Put simply: your system is finally safe enough, and strong enough to feel again.

😮‍💨 What Feels Like a Breakdown Is Often a Reset

Let’s reframe:

• Tears? Release of stored neurological tension.
• Fatigue? The parasympathetic nervous system (rest/digest mode) is finally turning on.
• Resistance? Your subconscious is detecting unfamiliarity and trying to protect your identity—even if that identity was built on exhaustion or over-functioning.

The subconscious doesn’t distinguish between “safe” and “familiar.”

It prefers what’s known—even if what’s known is burnout.

This is why resistance often appears after a new, positive shift: it’s not sabotage—it’s an adaptation phase.

🌿 Transcendence Is Always Happening

That’s why in the HEM Program, we don’t wait until the end to address the emotional and spiritual layer.

Phase X: Transcendence - is threaded throughout the entire process.

It’s the part of the program that invites:

• Emotional detox to be normalized, not pathologized
• Healing to include nervous system regulation
• The understanding that emotions are biology in motion

🧭 Moving Away From Fragility

This process isn’t just about physical restoration.

It’s about building a new baseline of safety, so your system no longer has to run on emergency mode.

We are not here to coddle dysfunction. We are here to rebuild resilience.

This process can feel raw at times. But it produces profound healing.

Let’s talk about it.

What emotional or physical shift have you experienced since beginning The STOPS or implementing the different Phases - and how might your body be asking for deeper rest, regulation, or release?

Let me know in the group,

Ruth

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