Physical symptoms are an invitation to look deeper into our Soul. Like a friend who has an important message for us, a message that we did not hear before, when it was just a whisper. The symptom draws our attention to the root of our discomfort: conflicts on our own emotional, relational or spiritual level, identifications with someone excluded in our family system, loyalties to our parents’ suffering. As Robin Alfred says: “Sometimes the Soul has the need to become visible”