Groin Muscles

Buried Feelings

Also known as: Groin · Adductors · Groin pull

Sexual fearholding onto a partnersexual guiltfeeling dirty or not good enough
Possible Buried Beliefs
  • “Wanting is dangerous.”
Healing Notes

From the 2023 Emotion Link Reference Guide — possible emotional associations: groin pain or pulls are often linked with sexual fear, holding onto a partner, sexual guilt and feeling dirty or not good enough. Possible purpose or secondary gain: a reason to avoid intimacy.

Fear softens when the body learns, slowly, that this present moment is safe. Breath, ground, and small acts of trust each loosen its grip.

Shame loosens in the presence of being seen and not rejected. Naming it out loud is often the first crack of light.

Guilt resolves through honest repair where possible — and self-forgiveness where it isn't.

Anger heals when it's felt, named, and translated into a clear, non-harmful no.

It softens with experiences of being valued for who you are, not what you produce.

Hard to Go Places

The places the body has been avoiding — the feelings, truths, or moments it has been organised to keep at a distance.

  • Groin Muscles

    Separating sexuality from shame.

  • Fear

    Letting the body feel safe without needing to control what comes next.

  • Shame

    Allowing yourself to be witnessed in the parts you've spent a lifetime hiding.

  • Guilt

    Distinguishing what was actually yours to carry from what you were handed.

  • Anger

    Letting it exist in your body without acting it out or shutting it down.

  • Not Enough

    Resting without immediately producing something to justify it.

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