Otherwise fairly fit and healthy I am having a bit of trouble with my knees of late (might be an age thing) to the effect that they are no longer behaving as knees should, eg. bending, weight bearing etc. I am going to see a rheumatologist but have had blood tests which seem to indicate a lack of arthritis, which is very positive, but a bit of a mystery.

I do sometimes think that our bodies indicate to us when we are overloaded in all sorts of interesting ways and we need to listen and pay attention to what is going on. I remember seeing a client who had the most awful IBS after splitting from a partner, and had actually described how she felt as ‘gutted’. The split was causing these very physical symptoms. The emotions that she felt were going directly to her stomach. Also, I heard of a chap who could not accept his son’s sexuality when he found out he was gay, he found it actually distasteful and then developed a strange symptom in which he had the experience of an awful smell in his nose.

This type of thing serves to illustrate how the body and mind are so closely related. I have thought about my ‘knee’ business and although it may well be that an MRI reveals a mechanical fault, I do think that some stress that I had last year in which I almost felt I was having to carry some family members going through a difficult time caused me to buckle under the strain. This difficult time has fortunately passed now, although the knees still seem to be complaining. Perhaps it is my age after all!

Wendy x