From Wheelchair to Walking: The Power of Facing Pain – Marinus' Story of Recovery

When Marinus first came to me, he arrived in a wheelchair, He weighed 50 pounds, and his height 1.90. The size of the mental trauma was as the size of the disability. and I was sure he wouldn't last another month. The challenge was comprehensive, mental and physical. his body frozen by years of trauma, injuries, and untreated emotional wounds lodged deep within his tissues. His medical records were long and heavy: fractured vertebrae, a broken hip, chronic nerve pain, and a daily cocktail of medications that dulled not only the pain, but his spirit.

Through a journey of deep bodywork painful, confronting, and ultimately transformative Marinus began to walk again. His story is not just one of physical rehabilitation, but of reclaiming life by confronting pain rather than avoiding it.

Understanding Pain and the power of face it : More Than Just a Symptom

In Western society, pain is seen as an enemy to be silenced. We rush to numb it with pills, distractions, surgeries, or by suppressing it through mental denial. We have been taught that pain must be eliminated as fast as possible.

But what if pain isn’t just a symptom? What if it’s a guide?

Pain is a message, a signal from the body that something is blocked, neglected, or wounded physically, emotionally, or spiritually. In my therapeutic approach, I do not silence this messenger. I listen to it, see it, and work with it.

The Source of Pain: Stagnation, Isolation, and Fear

Our modern way of life isolates us from each other, from our own bodies, from nature. This lack of deep contact creates accumulations in the body stagnations where blood, energy, and life itself stop flowing freely.

Conditions like fibromyalgia, often called the "new disease of the West," are not just physical. They are emotional pain crystallized in the body. Years of disconnection, avoidance, emotional suppression, and unresolved trauma accumulate, expressing themselves through chronic pain, stiffness, fatigue, and mental fog.

Instead of facing life’s natural pains and challenges, we have learned to flee from them creating deeper and more persistent suffering.

A Different Kind of Therapy: Through Pain, Not Around It

When Marinus began treatment, I explained to him:"there is a lot of power in facing the pain. We will not run from the pain. We will go through it. We will meet it with open eyes."

My method is based on seeing and treating the soft tissue intersections where movement has frozen, where circulation has stopped, and where life energy has been trapped. In these blocked places, the blood becomes thick, the tissue hardens, and the body loses its natural fluidity.

Releasing these blockages hurts.

It hurts because the body must remember what it forgot. It must feel again what it has hidden. The pain of treatment is the fire that burns away stagnation. It demands courage—not just physical endurance, but emotional willingness to stay present through difficulty.

Marinus stayed. Week after week, we worked:

• Restoring movement first through the feet and legs via reflexology,

• Flowing upward to unlock the soft tissues,

• Applying deep osteopathic techniques without force,

• Reawakening the body's internal communication.

  
  

Pain guided us, but it no longer controlled him.

Today, Marinus walks. His body breathes movement again.

Pain as a Doorway to Strength

Not every patient stays. Many leave after one or two treatments, overwhelmed by the intensity. But those who stay those who choose to know pain rather than flee it they are the ones who transform.

Pain, when treated with respect and understanding, becomes a rite of passage. It burns away the old stiffness, the emotional sediment, the mental patterns that have kept us locked in suffering.

True rehabilitation is not just physical. It is a journey through the fire of pain, across the wastelands of emotional resistance, and out into a new relationship with the body, the self, and life itself.

Marinus' journey is living proof that healing is possible not by avoiding pain, but by embracing it, understanding it, and allowing it to guide the way home.

In my upcoming video series, I will share step-by-step how this approach works how to work through the pain, not against it, and awaken the body's natural power to heal.

Are you ready to meet yourself on the other side of pain?

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