Healing Metaphors A-Z - Menstrual Cramps

Menstrual Cramps
Menstrual cramps result from the cramping of the uterus during menstruation. They point to a need for specialness, attention and love and are a form of self-attack for being a woman. Typically, we are caught in the vicious cycle of the specialness-sacrifice of being a woman. Specialness is counterfeit love and sacrifice is counterfeit giving, where we give out of roles without truly giving ourselves. Both specialness and sacrifice ‘contract us’ and stop us from being our full self as a woman.

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