A young girl approached me. The main topic of the request was the recent appearance of painful sensations in the throat, which began to torment her after the birth of her first child. “Lack of sleep, constant worry about the child, periodically forgetting to eat, the feeling that I’m doing everything wrong.” Moreover, the appearance of a sore throat, which, according to medical tests, is in no way related to the disease, caused the client severe discomfort. The peak was the situation after which she finally decided to see a psychologist. The girl describes the situation like this: “I just put my daughter to bed for the night. And she dozed off. After some time I wake up feeling like I am suffocating. I'm running out of air. My heart is pounding wildly in my chest. There is a clear phrase in my head: “I’m dying.” She jumped up and began calling her husband, saying: “I’m suffocating.” I grabbed all the documents (I don’t know why, but they lay there as if prepared). We immediately went to the hospital. But when we arrived, everything went away. The indicators were normal. They twisted it around our temples and we returned home.” The client had a panic attack as a result of constant tension, suppressed emotions, and limitation of basic physiological needs (lack of sleep, irregular meals). According to her, this was the first time. A panic attack is the finale, the tip of the iceberg, the peak of tension that needs to be removed from the body. This is how our body interprets the occurrence of such a state in order to save itself. This is how the self-preservation instinct inherited from our ancestors works. I suggested closing your eyes and imagining “Lump in Throat” right now. Why and how does it appear? What images come? And here Ekaterina (my client) said that she saw beads. They hang around her neck. After a series of clarifying questions, we came to the conclusion that these beads were given to her by her mother. Further, Ekaterina noted that in childhood and often during adolescence, her mother always reacted to her “rebellious antics” (asked to buy something, pierced her nose, raised her voice, came late, disagreed with something, etc.) by that there was a constriction in her throat, she began to “chop”, went to her room, closed the door in front of her with the words: “I can’t breathe, I feel bad.” Thus, almost any conflict with my mother ended in nothing. Ekaterina was left alone with her experiences, while at the same time she was worried about her mother, that she had “brought her down.” Together we worked through the message of her parent, which responded in the girl’s body. I suggested that she mentally thank her mother for such a “gift.” After all, all “symptoms” are created by our psyche for some purpose (psychological protection, suppression of anger and helplessness). And then “return this gift to her.” With the words: “I don’t need this anymore. That's not mine. It’s yours” And as soon as she “let go” and gave the “beads” to her parent... the sensations in her throat began to weaken. At the next meeting, the girl noted that the “lump in her throat” no longer bothered her. This is how Catherine was able to cope with her somatic illness by working through this condition. In this case, the girl’s “mother’s model” of responding to a stressful situation of helplessness and confusion worked. Mom, at one time, not knowing how to respond to her daughter’s emerging needs (for self-presentation, acceptance), suppressed anger, as a result it was transformed into the somatic symptom of “choking and a lump in the throat.” Ekaterina (client) recently became a mother herself, which means that her inner parent, who was not so clearly manifested before the birth of her own child, has “activated” in her. Initially, we take the “model of parenthood” from our own. Therefore, the “lump in the throat” was a physiological manifestation of a psychological symptom. The answer to a situation of helplessness, confusion, fatigue, not knowing how to meet the needs of the baby. Pain and illness are not always associated with a real illness. Very often this is the result of a person’s chronic psychological condition. Feelings and emotions are experienced by us in the body and they are interconnected with somatic!