Healing Metaphors A-Z - Hiatus Hernia

Hiatus Hernia
Hiatus hernia is a protrusion of the bowel through the abdominal wall. It reflects feelings of wanting to stop and withdraw from life because we are feeling overwhelmed by emotional loads. Yet we are torn because we feel we can’t withdraw and, feel we are carrying the world on our shoulders. We have gotten off center, and the situation ‘tears at our guts.’ We have a fear of going forward because we feel that we don’t have the ‘intestinal strength’ or fortitude.

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