Cedar Martyn, CMT

10/18/2025

💔🌀 When Trauma Blocks the Flow

How Emotional Wounds Create Physical Stagnation in Your Lymphatic System

(This article is for informational purposes only and is not a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always consult your healthcare provider before making changes to your health regimen.)

“Our biography becomes our biology.” — Dr. Gabor Maté

What if your swollen nodes, chronic puffiness, or lymphatic congestion aren’t just physical…
What if they are echoes of unspoken pain?

The truth is, trauma doesn’t just live in your memory. It embeds itself in the tissues of your body — tightening fascia, freezing breath, gripping muscles, and quietly clogging your lymphatic system.

This is the science of emotional stagnation — and the healing potential that’s unlocked when your lymph starts to flow again.

🧠💧 The Forgotten Link: Emotions + Lymph

Your lymphatic system is the silent river of your body — it carries toxins, waste, immune cells, and inflammatory messengers. But it doesn’t have a heart to pump it.

Instead, it relies on movement, breath, relaxed fascia, and neurological safety to flow.

And this is where trauma steps in.

When the body is trapped in a chronic fight-flight-freeze state — whether from abuse, grief, surgery, illness, or stress — your nervous system stays alert. Shoulders rise. The breath shallows. The diaphragm stiffens. Fascia contracts.

And the lymph slows.

🔒 Fascia: Where Trauma Hides

Your fascia — the connective tissue that wraps every muscle, organ, and lymphatic vessel — holds somatic memory. Emotional trauma causes fascial rigidity, particularly in:
• The neck & jaw (where the vagus nerve and deep cervical nodes sit)
• The gut (where trauma often somatizes and lymph collects)
• The pelvis (home to lymphatic cisterns and stored grief/violation)

Research in biotensegrity and somatic release confirms that emotional experiences change fascial tone, impeding fluid flow and lymphatic movement【Scarr, G. Biotensegrity】.

🧬 The Vagus Nerve & Lymph Flow

Your vagus nerve is the body’s brake pedal. When it’s toned and calm, your body feels safe — digestion flows, breath deepens, and lymphatic rhythm returns.

But trauma often leads to vagal shutdown or overload, impairing:
• Gut-lymph circulation
• Neuro-lymphatic drainage in the brain
• Immune balance and inflammation

That’s why so many trauma survivors develop autoimmunity, swelling, or chronic fatigue.

😭 When You Cry, You Drain

This may sound poetic, but it’s physiologically true:
When you weep, sigh, exhale deeply, or shake, you’re moving lymph.

Emotional release techniques — like somatic therapy, breathwork, craniosacral therapy, and MLD — often trigger “emotional detox” symptoms. This isn’t a setback. It’s a sacred reset.

🌿 What Can You Do to Heal?

Healing trauma-driven lymph stagnation is about more than drainage. It’s about creating safety in your nervous system so your body can finally let go.

💆‍♀️ Therapeutic Tools:
• Manual Lymphatic Drainage (MLD): Gently moves fluid & rewires safety into touch
• Fascial Release & Craniosacral Therapy: Frees old holding patterns in the body
• Vagus Nerve Stimulation: Cold exposure, humming, gargling, breathwork
• Castor Oil Packs: Anti-inflammatory, grounding, and somatically soothing
• Somatic Therapy: Releases stored trauma through body awareness and movement
• Gentle Movement & Emotional Expression: Dancing, weeping, sighing, praying

🧘🏻‍♀️ Real Healing Happens When…

The body feels safe enough to surrender.
The fascia softens.
The breath deepens.
The lymph begins to flow.

And the soul finally exhales.

This isn’t just lymphatic therapy.
This is sacred restoration of a body that’s been carrying too much for too long.

📚 Supporting Research:
• Van der Kolk B. The Body Keeps the Score — trauma’s impact on physiology and memory
• Scarr G. “Biotensegrity and the Fascia System”
• Carter J, et al. Brain Behav Immun. 2016 — trauma, inflammation, and immune dysregulation
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbi.2016.10.019

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10/18/2025

In a remarkable and unexpected development, a terminal cancer patient has shown significant recovery after being treated with an anti-parasitic dr*g. This surprising case is drawing global attention and could pave the way for new approaches in cancer therapy.

Researchers and clinicians observed that the drg, traditionally used to treat parasitic infections, appeared to target cancer cells in ways conventional therapies often cannot. Early studies suggest that the drg may disrupt the metabolism of cancer cells, weaken their growth, and trigger immune responses that help the body fight tumors more effectively.

While this treatment is still experimental and has only been observed in a limited number of patients, the results are encouraging. The patient’s recovery provides hope that repurposing existing dr*gs could become a faster, more cost-effective route to developing new cancer therapies.

Medical experts caution that more research and clinical trials are needed to determine the safety, optimal dosing, and broader applicability of this approach. Nevertheless, the case highlights the potential of innovative thinking in medicine, sometimes the solutions to life-threatening conditions may lie in unexpected places.

This breakthrough reminds the medical community and patients alike that cancer research continues to evolve rapidly. Every discovery, even one involving a dr*g originally intended for parasites, brings us closer to more effective and potentially life-saving treatments for cancer.

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10/14/2025

Traditional antifungal medications aren’t always effective, and they may come with adverse side effects that outweigh their advantages.

To make matters worse, many people who do find initial success with such treatments report a recurrence of the infection later.

If you’re looking for a more natural approach, consider the following, all of which have potent antifungal power:

-Soaking the affected area in warm water mixed with Epsom salts for 15 minutes daily

-Dabbing some diluted tea tree oil onto the affected area twice daily

-Applying iodine to the affected area once a day

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Activated charcoal is a potent natural treatment used to trap toxins and chemicals in the body, allowing them to be flushed out so they are not reabsorbed.

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