Healing Metaphors A-Z - Endometriosis

Endometriosis
Endometriosis is a condition that affects the endometrium, the mucous membrane lining of the inner surface of the uterus. If a fertilized egg is implanted, this membrane serves as a nurturing place for the developing embryo. If a fertilized egg is not implanted, then the lining is ‘sloughed’ as a menstrual period. Endometriosis occurs when endometrium tissue has grown unnaturally, somewhere other than the inner lining of the uterus. This condition means that we have issues of sacrifice in motherhood. We have compensated for this by false nurturing, which has added roles onto the ones already there. We have a judgment about our femininity, and therefore we are attacking men, our father in particular. A conflict has arisen because we’re trying to get love while simultaneously judging our feminine side. We feel stuck being a woman. As a result we have developed a super-sensitivity that controls the people around us by making them treat us in a special way. We don’t feel valued by the masculine, and the more we have devalued the feminine, the bigger our compulsion to hide it, usually through projection.

Chuck Spezzano and Janie Ticehurst, Healing the Body Through Mind and Metaphor