Emotional Well-being and Health for Emotionally Sensitive 

I’ve worked with many clients who are very  tuned in to the emotions of those around them — the ones who feel the tension in a room before a word is spoken.

In these patients, the connection between emotional state and health is almost impossible to miss. Their bodies react to emotional stress like a car alarm that won’t shut off: loud, exhausting, and hard to ignore.

For them, addressing emotional health isn’t optional — it’s often the majority of  the  treatment plan.

But What about Everyone Else?

Here’s where it gets interesting. Many of my patients don’t think of themselves as particularly emotional.

They pride themselves on being logical, resilient, “not the type to dwell on things.” And yet, when we dig deeper, we often find a backlog of unprocessed stress — grief, chronic anxiety, old trauma, workplace pressure — that has quietly taken up residence in their bodies.

The research presented at conferences I’ve attended, combined with what I see clinically every day, tells a consistent story: emotional well-being is a cornerstone of physical health, regardless of how emotionally sensitive you consider yourself to be.

Where Do Emotions actually live?

Traditional talk therapy — counseling, cognitive behavioral techniques — works by engaging the brain, which is a great starting point. But emotions don’t just live in the mind. They get stored in the body.

If you’ve ever felt a knot in your stomach before a difficult conversation, or noticed your shoulders creeping up toward your ears during a stressful week, you already know this intuitively. When emotions become chronic and unresolved, that physical imprint goes deeper.

That’s why I often incorporate body-based approaches alongside or instead of talk therapy alone. Techniques like bodywork, the Emotion Code, neural therapy, and others are designed to address emotional patterns where they’re actually stored — in the tissues, the nervous system, and the physical structures of the body. The results can be remarkable, especially for patients who’ve tried everything else.

The Takeaway

Whether you’re someone who cries at commercials or someone who hasn’t cried in twenty years, your emotional health is shaping your physical health right now.

The question isn’t whether your emotions are affecting your body — it’s how much, and what you’re willing to do about it.

If you or someone you love has been dealing with a health issue that hasn’t fully resolved despite doing “everything right,” it may be worth asking: is there an emotional component we haven’t addressed yet?

In my experience, that question alone can open the door to healing that nothing else could.

To Health!