The healing process

During my time of the “next health crisis,” I frequently felt overwhelmed or like I was chasing my tail. My doctors didn’t know what was wrong. I felt like there might be more than one thing going on, but I couldn’t do the protocols for everything all at the same time. I needed to work in small chunks, so I didn’t get overwhelmed. I learned to focus on one main thing, then transition to the next piece. Although I couldn’t heal everything in one swoop, as each specific issue started to heal, the overall system improved, and I started feeling better. A few things were constant throughout, such as the support of an exceptionally gifted practitioner in energy healing.

The different parts of my healing journey

  • Self-care
    • taking care of me had to be a priority
  • Heavy metal detoxing
  • Digestion
  • Inherited family trauma
  • Energy work
    • Practitioner
    • Muscle testing myself
      • Not just about yes/no. I started asking, “on a scale of 1-5 (5 being great), how good is this item for my body? If the answer was a 4 or 5, I ate it or used it; if lower, I found another option.
    • Learning to heal and work with my own energy body
  • Eating real food
    • Organic fruits and veggies
    • Grass-fed meat
    • Sustainable fish (wild-caught but in an environmentally sustainable way)
  • Avoiding
    • Processed foods and foods with flavorings/preservatives. “Natural Flavorings” is a way for companies to hide ingredients. Those ingredients are not always healthy even though they are labeled “natural.”
    • Extreme diets, especially long-term (high-protein, low-carb, etc.). Some of the more restrictive diets I’ve been on put me into “hyper-vigilance” mode around everything I ate. I found that the hyper-vigilance caused such a high level of stress that I was doing more harm than good even though I was supposedly eating what was “good for me.” Hah!
  • Supplements
  • Simplifying
    • Declutter – clutter holds energy.
  • Reducing Stress
    • as much as possible and within your control
    • Stress is a huge deterrent to healing and can make it challenging to calm the body down.
  • Being in nature
  • Learning to live and enjoy life again

 

Supporting the body in healing

  • Listening to the body
    • The body “knows” what it needs to heal. Pay attention and find/listen to that voice.
  • Be gentle with yourself
    • Don’t beat yourself up or overly criticize yourself
  • Don’t overdo
  • Don’t take care of everyone but you
  • Nature
    • The energy of feeling the sun, hearing the birds and a moving stream.
  • Movement
    • The body wants to move. I’m not talking about traditional exercise here. The main point is not to be too sedentary.
  • Rest
    • Get plenty of sleep
    • 20-minute power naps 
    • 5-10 minute break to calm the body down (when I didn’t have time for a longer rest/nap)