When Stress Becomes Physical: How Energy Gets Stuck in the Body

Erin C. Corman, Founder of Spark., Energy Practitioner

We’ve all heard it: “Stress kills.” But what does that actually mean?

It’s not just a saying. Stress is a full-body experience. It doesn’t stay in your head — it seeps into your muscles, your breathing, your digestion, your sleep, your immune system. Over time, it carves pathways into your nervous system until stress isn’t just an occasional flare-up… it becomes your body’s default setting.

That’s when you start to notice the whispers:

• The shoulders that never relax, no matter how many massages you get.

• The gut that clenches every time you feel anxious.

• The migraines that seem to come out of nowhere.

• The exhaustion that no amount of sleep can fix.

These aren’t random. They’re signs that energy is stuck.

How Energy Gets Stuck

Here’s the science-meets-spirit truth: when your body perceives a threat (a fight with your partner, pressure at work, even old unresolved trauma), your nervous system flips into survival mode. Muscles tighten, adrenaline spikes, and blood flow reroutes.

That’s healthy — for a moment. The problem is, most of us don’t come back down. We live in fight, flight, or freeze. The body keeps bracing for impact, even when the threat has passed. Unreleased stress becomes stored energy. Over time, it builds into physical symptoms — chronic pain, anxiety, burnout, and a nervous system that feels like it’s always on edge.

Where Spinal Energetics + Energy Therapy Come In

Spinal Energetics works directly with the spine — the communication highway between your brain and body — to help release this trapped energy. Through gentle contact, movement, and energetic awareness, your body is invited to unwind its holding patterns.

Instead of talking about your stress, your body gets to show you where it’s been holding it… and then let it go.

Energy Therapy takes this a step further, working with the subtle field around your body — the part science now measures as your electromagnetic signature. When this field clears, the nervous system resets, stress patterns dissolve, and space opens up for healing.

People describe it as:

• “My whole body felt lighter.”

• “The pain I thought I’d have forever just melted.”

• “It was like hitting a reset button I didn’t know existed.”

  
  

  

  Assessment process of Spinal Energetic session

The Reset Your Body Has Been Waiting For

If stress has been living in your body for years, this is your reminder: it doesn’t have to stay there. Your body knows how to heal — it just needs the right conditions to release what it’s been carrying.

So ask yourself this:👉 What’s the tension, pain, or symptom you’ve been carrying that you know is about more than just the physical?

That’s where Spinal Energetics and Energy Therapy can help.