Tick Bite Panic? What Your Fear Might Really Be Saying

thegirlymum
May 13
3 min read

What Comes Up Needs To

Tick season, Lyme fear, and the deeper message your body might be sending

You found a tick. You pulled it off. You freaked out.

Now you’re somewhere between ordering herbal biocides, googling Lyme, and wondering if your kid is going to start acting weird in six months… or if this is the beginning of never being able to eat beef again. (Hello, alpha gal.) And I get it — the fear is real. The stories about ticks and Lyme are real. The trauma of watching someone go through it? Also real.

But I want to zoom out for a second and ask something else entirely:

What was already rising in you before the bite?

Fear is a symptom too

In homeopathy, we don’t just look at what happened. We look at the terrain it landed on. Not everyone who gets bitten by a tick develops symptoms. And not everyone who develops symptoms develops chronic disease. So the question isn’t what pathogen got in? The deeper question is: What story did it land inside of?

Fear that your body is too weak. Fear that nature is unsafe. Fear that something out there is coming to destroy you.

If that’s already in your system, it’s already a symptom. What comes up — even if it’s just fear — needs to. This is what needs to be addressed, and not by a preventative antibiotic.

You were already fighting a ghost

Ticks become symbols for something bigger. For some people, it’s stagnation and mold. For others, it’s a virus, a food, a vaccine, a chemical. Whatever the trigger is, the core pattern is the same:

“I can’t handle what’s coming.” That’s the energy. That’s the disease.

We live in a culture that says, If you don’t fight the threat, it will kill you. So we arm ourselves with biocides, oils, and protocols. But what if the real work is disarming that belief?

Your body is trying to communicate

Symptoms are not punishments. They’re not consequences of missing a hidden villain. They’re attempts to communicate.

Your body doesn’t get sick because it was ambushed by a disguised germ or tick. It gets “sick” as an opportunity to release something. To express what’s been trapped — emotionally, physically, spiritually.

Even inflammation is an intelligent response. Even fear — when it rises — is your body trying to say: “I need you to see this.”

The question is: Do you respond to the message, or try to silence the messenger?

Instead of panic, try this

Let’s say you did find a tick. Let’s say your child got a bite. Here’s what you can do — without rushing into fear mode:

Pause. Breathe. Track what you felt in your body the moment you saw the tick.
Don’t suppress. If mild symptoms arise, support the process instead of killing it.
Ask what’s being invited to rise and clear. What ancestral fear might be trying to leave your system?
Trust. Most of the time, the body knows what it’s doing. If support is needed, there are ways to meet it without overriding it.

This is the work I do

Addressing your body as it responds to life is constitutional care.. In my program 12 Steps in the Direction of Cure, this is exactly what we will unravel — the stories behind symptoms, the real meaning of disease, and how to work with your body instead of against it.

If you’re tired of swinging between fear and false fixes, this work is for you.