Healing: Simple, But Not Easy

Photo by Elle Cartier on Unsplash healing chronic illness, autoimmune, stress

You’ve come to realize that pills only cover up the symptoms and you still feel FAR from your best.

When is it time to do the real work to get better? Are you finally ready for the deep dive, underneath your pain, your chronic illness, your autoimmune lies the juicy pain of repressed emotions, of mismanaged relationships with people, places, and things. The poor coping behaviors that keep you looping in a victimized narrative and anxiety is a part of it. Inflammatory conditions come from deep within, not just the body, it’s cellular, it’s even deeper, it’s energetic.

Healing diseases may sound airy-fairy, but the truth is not in cacao-ceremonies, savassanas, or even sitting in meditation. Healing is about sorting out all the feels and taking action, the actions that direct you back to yourself and your true goals and desires; no one else’s.

That may be the hardest to hear. Healing rocks the boat. Healing challenges the norm. Other’s may not want you to be well, because if you are, they might have to adapt and, hey, they didn’t want to change, so…

Then what? What relationships are mutually beneficial and what ones need to end? Who are you without your diseases, without your pain and suffering? Are you curious? Are you there yet?

Movement helps inspire the belief that good health is possible, as simple as a 15minute circulatory routine. I can walk/dance you through it. Then let’s talk turkey; how you eat and start to see how your fuel impacts how you feel. I work with my 1:1 health coaching clients on more than these two fronts. This last one is the keystone; cognitive reframing. Learning to disidentify with the beingness of unwellness and recognize you already ARE the healthy person you dream to be.

One day at a time. Hope grows sustainably.

Ask me how it’s done. I am living proof. Set up a call to chat. No pressure, only compassion in confidence.

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Pretending You’re Fine is Making You Sick

Let’s get real. To heal from physical ailments, not medicate or numb symptoms, requires honestly looking at our lives from a WHOLEistic perspective. No more parting ourselves out, let’s take a look at the bigger picture, shall we?

Because it’s time to get really honest when we suffer from the physical symptoms of stress overload and chronic nervous system dysregulation. Ask:

Am I overwhelmed?

Am I unfulfilled?

What emotional pain and I avoiding?

Who is living “rent free” in my head, ruminating over the past, and worrying about the future?

Chronic inflammatory conditions like pain, autoimmunity, skin and digestion issues SCREAM “notice me” “care for me” “stop ignoring me” “I need rest!” Are you finally ready to acknowledge and respond to your body’s cries for attention?

Or do you want to just keep on pretending your ok? That you’re not as important as every other person in your orbit? The signs will only get more intense, more severe.

Find ways to relax, to relate with others who you can be real with. Learn to reframe your emotional wounds into the fuel for becoming the healthy version of yourself you wish you were.

I am living proof. Diving deep into the roots of your physical pain leads you to your healthiest self. Find your people to support you. A health coach, a cognitive reframing therapist (or IFS) is a great place to start believing it’s possible.

Reach out if you’re ready.

Relational Healing via Ecstatic Dancing

Ecstatic dance in Newtown, Connecticut

I’m no stranger to isolation. It was a survival tactic for most of my life. Turning 50 nearly two years ago marked opening myself up to relational healing. Not alone! Among communities where our pain points overlapped in our quests for healthy relationships, not just romance, but ALL relating.

I’m also no stranger to dance as a potent healer, moving energies that otherwise can’t be moved by way of speaking. Emotions safely felt through movement are visceral, somatic, and primal. This is why I’ve been a fan of the mindful spaces that make the Ecstatic Dance international communities for over a decade. Mind you, I never really could connect beyond the dance floor until now.

For those who also relate to feeling isolated but long for connection. I invite you to join in. Ecstatic dance is a safe haven for self-expression, and somatic movement to help movers release inhibitions, process emotions, and connect spiritually or deeply with themselves and relating to others, as desired.

This is a sober and conscious space, where talking is left outside the dance floor and barefeet are encouraged to ground and feel the floor beneath our feet in celebration of our humanness.

Come with an open heart, intent to move, a clear mind, and curiosity to explore. No experience with dance necessary!

Here’s the link to join June 6th, from 6-8pm at the Newtown Wellness Collective.

https://www.newtownwellnesscollective.com/event-details/ecstatic-dance