When Feelings Hurt

In this accessible and engaging book, osteopath Christine Conroy describes the theory and reality of osteopathic practice and shows how early life experiences and psycho-emotional development can have as much of a lasting effect on our bodies as on our minds. Today’s physical complaints, she explains, may often have their roots in the way we responded to yesterday’s feelings. 

Unique as a body-mind book, When Feelings Hurt focuses on the body: how it works; how its freedom of movement can become compromised when we hold in our feelings and control our emotional expression; how different emotions are expressed and repressed in particular ways; and how we can heal. Enlightening and entertaining, the illustrative case stories present a clinical reality: both practitioners and their patients are people with their own personalities and idiosyncrasies, and we are all works in progress on the journey to health and the feeling of well-being. 

When Feelings Hurt is as much a self-help book as a guide for practising osteopaths, chiropractors, craniosacral therapists, body workers, psychotherapists and all who are interested in self-healing.