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Michelle (38) was very good at gymnastics as an eight-year-old girl; it was her passion. In a fall, she shatters her ankle. From then on, she cannot play sports and becomes an outcast in class. Michelle wonders if there can be improvement in her ankle after 30 years? She would like to play sports again, walk in high heels and not have pain in her foot.

Forced over the buck

I ask further and Michelle tells me that as an eight-year-old, her trainer encouraged her to jump the buck. She didn’t dare do this, but to please him and because she felt compelled, she did it anyway. She was doing something against her will. This then became a pattern in her life: authorities determining what she should do. This pattern causes her to fall into burnout.

Conflict themes

The ankle represents balance. Conflict impacts may have to do with themes such as :

• A feeling of inferiority because you can no longer perform a sport or function.
• The feeling that you are not good at something.
• From inferiority or insecurity feeling blocked from moving in a certain direction.
• Not daring to make a certain choice for fear of rejection from your mother.
• Dilemma: should I stay or go?
• Resistance to having to do things, like having to take out the trash every Thursday from your parents.

Sports injury or sprained ankle

A sports injury or ankle sprain has to do with a mobility self-esteem conflict that impacts the muscles. For example:

• can’t stand someone or a situation
• Unable to walk, balance, jump, dance, kick, brake, and so on.
• divorce dispute with mother.
• a particular situation is unacceptable.

In the conflict active phase – the stress phase – that follows impact, the body responds with cellular decline. With a long-term injury, we speak of a pending conflict. As a result, the muscle structure weakens and the muscle becomes more susceptible to injury.

Broken ankle

A broken ankle is a resolution of conflict, the peak of the resolution phase, the epi-crisis. For example, a conflict with your parents has been resolved. You get permission from your parents to deal with your courtship. Or you’ve made a choice that you’ve hesitated about for a long time.

Connecting-melting-letting go

We are going to Connect-Melt-Loose (VVL). I teach her to go to her ankle regularly when she feels pain. As a result, emotions and thoughts may come up. Feeling this allows Michelle to connect with the ankle and everything stored here. By going to it, sitting in it, she can melt with it and release the old pain.

Four months after her question, Michelle is walking in heels, has joined the gym and can do anything with her ankle again. Of course she starts cautiously, but she gains more and more confidence. To top it off, she is going on her second winter vacation this year. Something she thought she would never be able to do again.

Note: so broken is epicrisis/solutions and injury/sprain is impact/CA.

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