Fibromyalgia Spiritual Root Cause: What Your Body’s Trying to Tell You
Living with fibromyalgia can feel like being trapped in a body that’s constantly sounding the alarm. The pain, the exhaustion, the brain fog — it all adds up to a cycle that feels endless.
Most people are told it’s “just a nervous system issue” or “overactive pain signals.” And while that’s partly true, it misses the deeper story.
Because here’s the thing: symptoms don’t appear in a vacuum. They don’t just fall from the sky and land on you at random. They come from somewhere.
And in my experience, that “somewhere” is inherently spiritual.
Who Am I?
I’m Steve.
For the past 6 years, I have been honored to guide healing that helps people feel alive and well in body, mind, and spirit — after experiencing my own health crisis (swollen lymph nodes, fatigue, chronic pain, and burnout)…and discovering how to heal.
Walking with individuals as a teammate, helping them move into partnership with their bodies and experience deeper connection within, brings me great joy — and reminds me that healing is always possible and worthwhile. Honestly, there’s nothing I would rather be doing than helping people heal in a way that stabilizes them in their own power.
I understand that you probably want your symptoms gone. (I did!) AND, the approach to that makes all the difference. Discover what I mean, here. ›
The Spiritual Meaning of Fibromyalgia
If you landed here by searching for fibromyalgia spiritual meaning, you’re not alone. Many others are asking that very same question.
Here’s what I’ve discovered:
Your spirit is also known as your psyche — where your mind, emotions, beliefs, and consciousness intersect.
When something is seeking attention there, your body will communicate it through symptoms. In my experience, most symptoms are inherently spiritual because they are rooted in the psyche (spirit).
Think about phrases we use all the time:
“Her spirit is broken.”
“My job is soul-crushing.”
“He’s in low spirits.”
We instinctively know the psyche and body are connected. Yet most approaches only focus on the surface—medications, stretches, supplements. While they might help temporarily — they don’t touch the deeper source of the turbulence. What I’ve seen again and again is that the psyche/spiritual layer holds the key.
Fibromyalgia-like symptoms are an indication that something is feeling “on guard” within.
We’ve heard that it’s a bodily malfunction. But in reality, your body is responding to something within that’s saying, “We aren’t safe. We aren’t understood.”
When your muscles, fascia, and nervous system have been on “danger watch” for years, they eventually cry out in pain.
Here’s what I want to emphasize: Lifting the pain is possible!
When we can work with the symptoms as a helpful messanger, we can get to the source.
That’s when pain eases, energy flows, and you feel like yourself again — not because you forced it, but because your system got permission to relax…from you.
A Client’s Turning Point
I remember working with a woman who had carried fibromyalgia for over a decade in her body. As we gently explored what her body was holding, tears started flowing.
She said,
“I’ve been in pain every day for over three years, and I can’t believe I am experiencing such relief right now in such a short amount of time. I somehow feel like everything is going to be ok, and I haven’t felt that way in a very long time.”
Through that experience, her body received a new message that it didn’t have to keep bracing. That it could relax.
When that message lands deep within the body, relief opens.
If you’re interested, learn more here.
What I’ve Discovered
Here’s what I’ve noticed: whenever we suppress our emotions, hold ourselves back, or silence our true feelings… the tension it creates doesn’t just vanish. It gets stored.
If that pattern continues, that energy compounds and builds, like a soda bottle shaken over and over.
And the body eventually speaks. (sometimes very loud)
Ongoing pain isn’t a random glitch or just an enzyme imbalance. They are the spirit’s way of saying: this tension has nowhere to go. It needs and outlet. It needs a new way that feels better.
Once we work with that mind-body layer, the pain can unwind. This is what I help others do in my healing work.
The body-mind points to the places where the root of turbulence is active or stuck in the body, and when we give it attention and release, the pain is calmed.
I understand that you probably want your symptoms...gone.
AND, the approach to that makes all the difference.
I hope that this article sheds light and offers a beacon of hope in your healing journey.
Always rooting for you,
~Steve
