We keep repressed emotions in our mouths

Every morning, Laura woke up with severe jaw pain. Sometimes even with a headache that lasted all day. The young woman had gone to specialists who had prescribed her to sleep with a discharge splint to protect her teeth. Apparently, Laura had a habit of clenching her jaw tightly while she slept.

However, despite the splint, Laura continued waking up daily with a profound malaise. In addition, it happened that the girl, during the day, also squeezed her mouth. Whether it was at work, on the bus or watching television at her house, she always had to be attentive to relax her jaw, which, she seemed to live in a continuous state of tension.

Even being so young, due to the continuous stress on her jaw, Laura had already lost several teeth and had damaged many others. Her dentist had told her that her teeth and her gums were more typical of an old woman than of a 35-year-old girl, her real age.

Accumulated tensions in the mouth

On the recommendation of her dentist, the young woman sought psychological help and that is how she came to the consultation. Little by little, we began to work to find out the origin of that tension that affected his jaw so much.

In therapy, we went back to her childhood and Laura was able to remember how every time when I was little I protested about something or spoke out against what his father thought, he I gave him a small blow on the mouth to make him shut up. It was not a slap nor did it cause enormous physical pain, but the blow was forceful enough for the girl to internalize the idea that “protesting is prohibited.”

Like the drop of water that wears away the stone, those hundreds of taps that the girl received in her childhood marked her character and over the years, Laura automated the habit of tighten your mouth to suppress your opinions and complaints. Stop talking about her helped the girl so that her father would not get angry with her, but the price to pay for her was too high, the accumulated tension of her ended up making her sick because of her weakest point, her mouth.

After doing her therapeutic work, Laura was finally able to talk about the frustration, accumulated anger and sadness for everything that had happened. Furthermore, the young woman herself understood that the reasons to keep silent had disappearedNow she was an adult who could and knew how to defend herself.

Furthermore, the young woman promised herself not to be silent again, nor to repress their opinions: “I have the right to speak” Laura told me and said to herself in the sessions. Precisely, the young woman decided to tattoo this phrase to never forget her past, nor the importance of expressing her emotions.

The highlight of his liberation It took place at a family gathering. The moment her father began to say the same barbaric things as always, instead of shutting up about her, she expressed her disagreement and expressed her opinion, affirming to her father that he would never shut her up again. . When he began to yell, Laura calmly stood up and left the meeting.

The young woman called me several years later to tell me that her mouth problems had improved a lot, her gums had already partly regenerated, in addition to having healed, it was more in line with that of a person her age.

The emotions that we repress, that we silence, over time They can cause physical damage to our body. To rediscover the body-mind balance, it is essential to work to recover our voice, our words, our ability to act and defend ourselves against abusive people.