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On a Sunday evening we noticed a rash beginning on one of our son's left lower jaw. The next morning the rash was stronger and especially very itchy. It could also be observed a little on the left side of his neck, his shoulder, and even on his upper arm.

I explained to him right away what the rash of the ectodermal epidermis means from a 5BN perspective, and that he must have recently resolved a separation conflict, so we thought together about the cause in order to be able to estimate the expected intensity and duration of the symptoms.

The day before, he had met many friends and also a few teachers from his old school, which could possibly be fitting. But since he had already met everyone who's important to him recently anyway, the connection wasn't convincing.
I also told him that it could also have to do with a local touch at that spot which he had missed (or which was unwanted), and that he could keep thinking in that direction.

Ten minutes later he held out his stuffed frog to me and said: "I think I know what it's about... it's Quaki." At that point I immediately knew what he meant, why the rash affected that spot, and why it had appeared exactly now:

For a few months, our son has developed an increasing disgust toward frogs, which for some reason kept getting worse, even though we couldn't find any triggering situation for it. Two weeks ago we again had a situation in which frogs were really awful in his imagination. As a result, he picked out the frog ("Quaki") from among his old stuffed animals and told me that I unfortunately had to get rid of it.
I could see he was completely torn - it was hard for him to "banish" the stuffed animal because of his new disgust. At the same time it was also a kind of "old friend", since he had owned it for more than half his life, and we had played many role-playing games etc. with it and others in the past (we often spoke as the animals, so in his imagination as a small child they used to be "half alive").

This banishing of Quaki two weeks earlier was thus the causal separation conflict - i.e. the unwanted breaking off of contact with someone/something important to him.

Afterwards we thought about what we could do about his disgust toward frogs, and he was now finally also willing to do something about it. A few weeks earlier I had learned the Trinity method at a seminar, which seemed very suitable for this. After two applications, the stress regarding frogs was clearly reduced, and I was allowed to bring Quaki back to him. He planned to let Quaki sleep with him again in a few days as a way of making amends 🙂
When Quaki had then slept with him for one or two nights, we noticed the rash the next day - the separation conflict was resolved, and the skin was reversing, under inflammation, the unnoticed adaptations of the conflict-active phase.

Why the location on the jaw, neck, and shoulder? Because he used to often press his stuffed animals against himself there when falling asleep.

After the symptoms were quite strong on Monday, they then, as predicted, quickly receded again: after two days the inflammation and general redness of the skin had disappeared, and the remaining spots became much darker and more clearly defined - like the crusting of a wound. After that they got paler every day and were no longer visible after a little more than a week.