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I hope the posts and videos on this blog stimulate you to think differently about your health. I'm sharing from the perspective of my training as a homeopath and my experience practicing meditation and somatic healing for over twenty years.
There are hundreds of posts, some from as far back as 2012. I invite you to search for whatever interests you and contact me if you have questions about anything I've written.
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Healing happens in slow time
Most people want to heal as quickly as possible. We want to be free of the symptoms that are bothering us, it’s only natural.
More is Possible
When you believe in the average prognosis for someone with your diagnosis, you're limiting yourself from becoming exceptional.
Your Body-Mind Isn’t Failing You
If you’re sick or in mental or physical pain, your body-mind isn’t failing you.
Victim-thinking has its place
Most healing efforts suggest that we move away from victim mode.
True Healing Doesn’t Happen in a Box
There is so much that isn’t known about many chronic diseases.
When you know your suppressed emotions are aggravating your illness, what do you do about it?
It can be quite confounding to figure out how to process and release emotions that have become suppressed and held in our tissues.
Trauma-based component at the root of most chronic diseases
Trauma that we experienced in childhood or at any point in life can continue to consume part of our vital life energy today.
The way out of pain can be found deep within it
It’s possible to move through suppressed pain with authenticity and grace.
Healing begins by the simple act of being willing to listen within.
I like to remind myself and others that healing begins by the simple act of being willing to listen within for the answers.
Being as we are is so hard for most of us, that we have to practice allowing, marking space for what is, and accepting ourselves every day.
Accepting ourselves with all our current limitations, and simply being as we are is challenging for most people.
Trying To Be Strong
Many people with health struggles try and be strong for their kids, for their spouses, or for whoever they perceive needs them.
I’m doing everything right
You can do everything right and still have flare-ups and feel terrible.
When don’t know our boundaries until we meet them
People have all kinds of ideas about what they will and won’t do but often those personal rules get broken.
You can still be a work in progress
I love kind soulful friends who encourage me to be compassionate with myself. I’m blessed to have a few such friends my life. One of them reminded me this morning that it’s quite okay to be a work in progress.
Do you know how to heal?
Healing is a skill. It requires a framework to understand the process and a set of tools to navigate along the passage.
How do you tolerate the unknown in your healing?
If you’ve been working to heal a chronic struggle, you know how challenging it can be.
The pain people can handle and the pain they cannot
One of the most common complaints I hear from people in pain is that they can’t tell people how they are actually doing
Tips for Managing a Flare-up or Regression
Even though we know that healing isn’t linear and we’re bound to have regressions, nobody likes it when it happens! It’s pretty easy to freak out and catastrophize.
How Do You Reconcile These two Mantras?
If you’ve been on the healing path for a while, you will undoubtedly have encountered the apparent dichotomy of evolving verses accepting. How do you know when to question and heal your ways verses accepting yourself as you are?