Womb Twin Survivors

I have recently had some extraordinary examples of body memory, and how the body can tell a story of what is locked in there.

The first was a tall Canadian woman K who was wandering around at a conference looking lost, saying. "I don't know where I should be." I felt at once that this was as much a psychological statement as a physical one, and I suggested that K should be with me, and we could talk. We went to a private place and she told me how she felt cold down her left side and how she had consulted doctors and had tests but the coldness continued. When I asked her how it felt, K began to weep, and sobbed for some time with what seemed like real grief. The image of half of her being dead and the other half grieving for the dead half was so strong that I suggested that she may be a twin. This was one of the many "Ahaha!" moments that make my work with wombtwin survivors so extraordinary. Within a few more minutes we were both laughing and the atmosphere lifted. We parted then, after just half an hour. The next day I asked K how she felt: she said "joy" and she was "warm all over".

The next example was not so much coldness as facial numbness, and "pins and needles" all down the left side. I asked this person to question this body memory. She sat and stroked her left arm and wept. She spoke about competition, weakness and dying. She then stood and demonstrated this with her whole body, which leaned all to one side as she spoke about heaviness, weakness competition and death.

This was the clearest body memory of a dying identical twin that I had ever seen. Her doctors were baffled simply because they did not know what to see or how to look. A chiropractor would have reacted differently, I feel, but then it seems the entire medical profession has a lot to learn about the physical effects of being a wombtwin survivor and how the body of the survivor can carry a persistent memory of the dead twin.