One of my dear friends (and one of the most brilliant doctors that I am blessed to have in my life), Stephanie Morango, MD said something to me last year when I was struggling with the toxic fluid/excess weight on my body. She said, “It’s all about self-acceptance. Give people back their toxic energy; you don’t need their shit in you anymore. There is nothing for you to do, Amie. It’s how you learn how to use what you’ve got. Be okay with your weight and it will come off. When you’re in a new place, you’ll choose new things that will contribute to taking the weight off. Get to a place where you’re okay with your body where you feel safe to actually be in your body. How are you going to accept and release the weight? Acceptance is a state of being that you must cultivate. It’s a feeling. Be in the feeling, Amie.”

Hmmm, I thought.

She’s got a point.

And that’s what I’m sharing with you today.

Self-acceptance.

It’s not something any of us were brought up learning how to do.

Well, maybe you were taught that if your parents were conscious enough to have self acceptance for themselves. But, most of us were not. And then we end up as adults and we don’t even know how to cultivate acceptance with our own bodies.

Sad, isn’t it?

It’s like we go through life on a roller coaster and we never stop for a minute to think, “Hey, do I have self-acceptance?”

As Stephanie said to me, “It’s a state of being that you must cultivate. It’s a feeling. Be in the feeling.” I was lost. I had no idea what the heck she was saying to me. I’ve been to dozens of healers and mediums and body workers and shamans and astrologers and yogis they’ve all told me so many things. All true and all helpful, which is mind-blowing in and of itself. But, what they told me used to go in one ear and out the other until I started writing down what they told me in my phone so that I could look at it again and again to finally try to understand what they were trying to get me to realize.

Somewhere along my journey of life, I got tripped up on thinking self-acceptance was the same thing as self esteem. I had lots of self esteem growing up but I was lacking self-acceptance. Something that many of us are lacking without even knowing it.

To my surprise, I soon discovered that self-acceptance is not the same as self esteem. How could I be so confident in life and speak in front of thousands of people and be on national TV without having any trouble at all, yet I didn’t accept myself. I was always trying to change something about myself to make me better, better, better. It wasn’t until I hit rock bottom in my 30’s with my hormones and my health again- after 10 years of chronic illness, that I started to go deeper into myself to discover what was really going on in this mind of mine.

And here’s what I found.

According to Psychology Today, “When we’re self-accepting, we’re able to embrace all facets of ourselves–not just the positive, more ‘esteem-able’ parts. As such, self-acceptance is unconditional, free of any qualification. We can recognize our weaknesses, limitations, and foibles, but this awareness in no way interferes with our ability to fully accept ourselves”.

And so that’s what I had to do. I had to learn how to accept the parts of me that I wasn’t able to accept. I had to learn how to like myself more, instead of beating myself up for every single thing. I had to stop judging myself and learn how to cultivate more love within my body for myself. I had to look at all my scars and bumps and excess weight and see them as perfect and not broken.

In the article above, it talks about how we’re only able to accept ourselves as much as our parents accepted us because before the age of 8 when we’re a sponge absorbing everything we see and hear and feel, we’re in our subconscious mind and we take all of that with us into adulthood.

Something I’ve been working on the last few years is cultivating unconditional love. I had no idea what unconditional love was. No one ever talked to me about this. It was something that I discovered reading hundreds of mind/body books and realizing that when you accept yourself for who you are, you have unconditional love for yourself. Same goes for other people in your life. When you can love them for who they truly are- on a soul level- and it doesn’t matter what they look like or what they do to piss you off, you still love them unconditionally, that’s the name of the game. The wild thing is that so many of us focus on conditional love. I admit that I did and still sometimes I do this and I have to catch myself. I believe we do this because as kids, many of us are only loved conditionally when we do something ‘good’ that our parents approve of and so then we spend the rest of our life doing things to get approval from others as well as looking for conditions to make us feel lovable and this causes us to give only conditional love because then we’re only loving others based on things they do. This whole thing is so screwed up. But, the point isn’t to tell yourself that you’re screwed up. Everyone had a wonky childhood and everyone has gone through rough patches in their life. The goal is to learn how to love ourselves for the shape and size we are and for our personality and for the soul that we are. That’s what this is all about. It’s not about liking someone because they dress well or only liking someone if they can help you out in someway to get ahead. Those are conditions and when you need conditions to love someone or yourself, then everything gets thrown out of balance.

Love yourself for who you are, for what you are, for the fact that you are breathing right now, for your body that is working hard to keep you alive, for the home you’re living in, for the air that you can breathe and for the sun shining every single day. That’s how I’m learning how to love myself more and more beyond self esteem and cultivating more self-acceptance for my body and my story and my past and everything else. I’m learning how to love me for who I am and anyone that doesn’t love me for who I am can go find someone else to play with. The friends and family in my life are loving and love me unconditionally. I realized this when I blew up with 70 pounds of fluid from the progesterone cream toxicity. I couldn’t believe they still loved me and wanted to talk to me and hang out with me despite what I looked like. I was shocked. What does that have to say about me?

I was empty inside.

But, I’m learning how to fill her back up with self-compassion and lots of hugs.

I hope you are filling yourself back up, too.

Lots of love.

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Shifting

There’s something about this time of year that makes me sit back and ask myself a bunch of questions about everything. I sort of think of this time of year leading up to September as a sort of semi-New Year more so than I do in January.

Perhaps it’s because of all those years of going back to school in September and starting a fresh year that makes it feel this way. I think that’s what it is. Perhaps you can relate? Even at 36 years old, I still feel like life is about to change and shift and start fresh in a few weeks for a whole new school year. You could say I keep myself on a ‘school calendar’ if you’d like, but perhaps that’s what keeps the child-like playfulness to my life.

The last few months of summer have left me feeling like a huge shift is happening in every area of my life. I’ve been feeling this way for a few months now but it seems every month brings about more awareness, more change, more shifts, more growth, more depth and more clarity. I believe a lot of this started when I began to feel better. When you’re cooped up for 12 years trying to survive and your only outlet is your work, doctors and sleep, you sort of end up in a life that feels like a horse with blinders on. It’s odd because when you’re in the thick of it, you don’t even realize you’re in it, but when you get out of it (and the unraveling process of getting out of it) you can’t help but wonder how much you didn’t see, feel, think, hear, smell, touch, etc. in life because you were so cooped up inside your own little world. Trauma is weird. It’s creepy in a way because we’ve all had traumatic situations in our lives but we brush them off as nothing, yet we carry around their emotional and energetic heaviness and wounds for years, sometimes lifetimes without realizing how much those situations shaped us and changed us.

Slowing Down

The shift I’m feeling in my life currently is the pull to slow down. I talked about this a few years ago in my feature about Why the Hustle Isn’t So Fabulous and I think that was the start of a spark inside of me to slow down. To slow my entire life down. Not just the running around to meetings. Not just the filling up my calendar. Not just trying to be everything for everyone. Not just the trying to do it all. But the deeper hustle- like not multi-tasking and actually being present when I’m working on something or writing this article or speaking with someone. I became really good at mutli-tasking. Really, really good. I’m sure you can relate. While it’s wonderful for getting stuff done, it messes with your life and actually makes me feel dizzy just thinking about it. It kept me in this loop of the trauma cycle (more on this coming soon) and completely out of my body always wanting to do, do, do and get more done and be more efficient and it totally whacked out my body and left me in a state of not being able to be present with people.

And right now, at this point in my life, what I want is to be more present, more grounded in myself, more self-aware because to me that’s the real growth in life. When we succumb to our knee jerk reactions and allow ourselves to be triggered by others (all of which just stems from our own childhood unmet needs) we feel out of sorts and discombobulated and our cortisol and adrenaline is sky high and our head is pounding and it’s a NIGHTMARE. Yuck. Not my cup of tea. Those days of getting ‘bent out of shape’ are over for me.

I’m slowing down everything. The way I food shop. The way I cook my meals. The way I have a conversation. The way I say, “NO” more. The way I spend more quality time with myself to reflect on the woman I want to be in my future and how I want to step forward into a new season and so much more.

Releasing and Letting Go

All I can say is that I feel such a release, a letting go, a deeper sense of relaxation in my nervous system, which is helping to speed up all the healing in my body. But most of all, I have peace of mind. I’m not endlessly scrolling through social media. I’m no longer trying to attend every event or gathering. I’m not feeling like I have to do it all. I’m just BEING and wow, what a shift. I’m not going to lie, a bit (and a lot) of anxiety pops up at first when you’re shifting because your nervous system is so used to going, going, going, going, going, going, going but when you sit with that resistance, it fades like the steam coming out of a tea kettle and what you find is stillness and peace underneath it.

Shifting doesn’t mean rushing or seeking advice from someone who is trying to squeeze you into a one-size-fits-all approach that isn’t addressing what you need. During my own journey, I felt every so-called “expert” I saw was trying to fit me into this boxed approach and sadly I started to rely on these “experts” as the authority and trusted their advice more than I trusted myself, which meant I lost complete trust over my own intuition and I also completely lost myself in the process. Yet what the process of unraveling myself has done for me is to teach me and guide me into who I truly am and to realize that the power is always inside of me, not in someone outside of me, as much as society tells us that’s the way to go. Do yourself a favor and begin to deepen the trust in yourself and get still, get quiet with yourself and allow yourself to shift slowly into the woman you’re meant to be. This is a shift in your energy and it begins with you.

Shifting is a beautiful thing. It can feel scary, sure, if you let it scare you. Or you can let life shift around you and let yourself flow with it instead of fighting against what life is trying to tell you.

Here’s what I do know about shifting and growing and change…it’s a slow process and it’s also a beautiful one filled with lots of signs throughout your day that you wouldn’t otherwise catch if you were busy going, going, going. Life is always trying to teach us something, to help us heal, to be a mirror for us to see our own unresolved fears that are reflected back to us and so much more…

So, this week, allow yourself some quiet time to think about the woman you want to be as you step into this new season/New Year and allow your life to shift with you instead of fighting whatever it is that’s happening. What you can’t see, yet is how whatever situation you’re in is bringing you to the exact place you’re meant to be. Trust that.

Enjoy these last few days of summer.

Much love,

-Amie

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Ahhhh the people pleaser.

At some point in my life, I took on the role of the people pleaser. Perhaps you can relate?

I can’t recall the exact moment this happened but as I become more conscious of my unconscious thoughts, behaviors, actions, and incentives, I can’t help but wonder what series of events made me think I had to please people to get love and attention.

Here’s what I believe happened.

I saw many women in my life (grandmothers, teachers, my friends’ mothers, sports coaches, and so on) pleasing people and getting love (ex: a hug or attention) in return on many occasions. All of this happened unconsciously in the little mind of mine when I was young and it’s taken me 36 years to realize whoah baby…and I asked myself, “What are you DOING, Amie? Why are you walking on eggshells around everyone making sure they’re not mad at you or making sure they’re happy? That is not your job!”

People pleasing can show up in many ways depending on our past traumas, experiences and situations where we received love and attention for making someone else happy or putting their happiness above our own.

It’s funny because as young women, we’re taught to people please and be kind and courteous and to put others above ourselves and I totally get that – we don’t want to raise a maniac who is rude and reckless. However, the more and more I unpeel the layers of who I thought I was supposed to be and allow who I really am to emerge, I wonder what would happen if we raised women and young girls to actually know their worth and put themselves first. Does that sound selfish?

Probably. Because your beliefs of ‘selfish’ probably came from your mother or grandmother or a teacher or whoever who told you that you were selfish if you took care of yourself and focused on yourself. But, why aren’t we questioning that? I’m questioning it. Do you want to know why?

Because EVERY WOMAN that walks into my office is depleted, holding in gallons of suppressed emotions, and is still unconsciously putting everyone else above her. Seeing this over and over again, it’s made me realize how connected our health and wellbeing is to our emotions, our belief systems and what’s going on unconsciously in our minds. This is something I address in depth in the formula for healing, which is reviewed in full in my upcoming retreats.

How Being ‘the people pleaser’ Affects Your Health

Seeing these clients pour in and out of my office, it’s no wonder they are dealing with very serious health issues such as autoimmune disease and more. When a Western M.D. cannot find the cure to the problem, it’s time for us to look deeper and realize that the root cause of the health issues is not in the CT Scans, bloodwork, etc.

As I will be discussing extensively in my upcoming retreat, the answers are not in those tests. Sure, they may be able to help some people but they sure didn’t help me because the answers were not in my physical body. My answers and your answers are much deeper and sadly our medical profession doesn’t know how to access them. I know this because I went in circles for a decade with my health being told I was “crazy” and that it was all in my head. It’s no surprise those are the clients I attract – the ones who are fed up and exhausted and desperate for answers. These are the women who want to feel better but they’re in their own way and don’t know where to turn.

As I talk about often in my formula, I cannot stress enough how important it is to heal your body on the physical, emotional and energetic layers. Just eating clean and detoxing alone is not going to solve the problem. Will treating the physical body help you? Sure, it will. Until it no longer does, which is what happened with me and is what I see happen for every client at some point because the issues are beyond the physical body.

Let’s Take a Look at ‘the people pleaser’

She can show up in many different ways. For some people, it’s overextending herself to make sure everyone is happy. That was me.

For others, she’s trying to control her own social anxiety around people so she tries to be there for everyone else but herself. That was me.

For some people, she bends over backward because she fears abandonment of friends, lovers, family, friends, colleagues, etc. That was me.

For others, she is the nicest and most helpful person you know and it sometimes can come across as being annoying because people perceive it as inauthentic and fake.

And the list goes on…

What I want you to start to think about is how SHE (the people pleaser) is affecting your life. You may not think she is but SHE IS. Silently and unconsciously she is stripping you, dimming your light, keeping you in a box, keeping you safe and not allowing you to fully express yourself and be yourself because of gallons of unconscious fears that are holding you back.

Can you imagine what all of this is doing for your thyroid and adrenals and hormones? A LOT. It’s spiking your cortisol, spiking your adrenaline, which decreases your progesterone and causes more PMS, weight gain, and the list goes on and on and on.

I could sit here and give you a term paper on the side effects of how powerful the mind is and how it affects your health on a daily basis but that’s not necessary. What I want you to understand is how strong this connection in, despite us being taught by Western medicine that nothing is connected. I will be addressing all of this and so much more as well as how to get out of your own way and remove the blocks keeping you unwell, symptomatic and frustrated with your health in my upcoming retreat. I truly hope to see you there to continue this discussion and help you heal once and for all.

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Self-acceptance.

It’s not the same as self-esteem. That’s a whole other shebang that we’ll get to another time. Today we’re focusing on self-acceptance.

To me, self-acceptance is unconditional, meaning it doesn’t have any conditions tied to it such as “I’ll accept myself if I lose 10 pounds,” “I’ll accept myself if those good looking men notice me,” “I’ll accept myself if I get promoted”… those are all conditions that we put on ourselves and self-acceptance doesn’t work when there are conditions. Trust me. I’ve tried.

After three and a half decades of life, I’ve gotten to a really comfortable place with accepting myself, my flaws, my limitations, my faults, and so on. I truly don’t see anything that’s happened in my past as a failure. From the outside, someone may say my 12-year traumatic journey of healing my body, my tumultuous relationship with my father (which has been healed), getting my heart broken and taking 14 years to heal it were all failures. I’m sure many people look at these past scenarios as awful situations but I don’t.

These experiences have shaped me. They’ve changed me. They’ve made me stronger. They’ve made me the woman I am today. And for that, I’m grateful. This quote by Maya Angelou pretty much sums it up.

“You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.”

– Maya Angelou

I’ve learned a heck of a lot from healing my body, which goes FAR beyond taking a pill and hoping for the best. True healing, from my experience, happens on the physical, emotional and energetic layers of the body, all of which are addressed in my retreats.

That said, when you are on a journey like this to FEEL BETTER, you spend a lot of time on your own in bed thinking, thinking, thinking, feeling, feeling, feeling, wondering, wondering, wondering….and so on. So, I’ve come to accept that I’m a much deeper person than my early 20-something self. There’s no room for surface anything in my life anymore. I crave depth. You’re deep, too? Great, we’ll be friends.

The Answers Aren’t in a Book

There is no book or lecture or degree that could have taught me what I’ve learned from healing myself because the answers to what truly healed me aren’t in those mediums. This journey to self-acceptance and healing yourself has to be experienced and felt and moved through and processed and understood, which is exactly why my work includes layers beyond the physical and shows you how your external reality mirrors and reflects back to you what you’re broadcasting within the physical, emotional and energetic layers of the body.

Reading a book on how to heal your thyroid ain’t gonna get you too far. Sure, it will help you a bit and it might make you feel better for a few months or a year but until the core issue(s) is addressed, your body is still going to be fighting you. That’s the truth and I’ll be the FIRST person to tell you this is not easy to hear because we live in a quick-fix world.

So, because the answers that actually brought me back to life weren’t found in books or lectures, I feel it’s time for me to help other women like you dive into your own inner strength so you can, in turn, heal yourselves.

That said, during this journey I’ve become more self-forgiving of myself.

I realized I’m enough and stopped trying to improve myself with every self-help book that really wasn’t getting into the operating system of what was going on at the root of my health issues.

And here’s what I learned.

I’ve learned how to let go of the self-judgment that constantly screamed at me on a daily basis like an inner critic.

I’ve stopped comparing myself to others.

I’ve stopped competing with others.

I’ve stopped needing that ‘high’ you get when you talk about someone and it makes you feel better for a hot second.

I’ve stopped needing to be right.

And I’ve come to accept my singular individuality just the way I am.

Nothing happened for these things to register and shift in my mind. I didn’t recite a poem or take a 5-step course or read another book or spend time with a guru. I simply just let go, stopped fighting myself and started accepting myself more (much easier said than done).

I started becoming conscious of the unconscious BS I have been telling myself all these years. I started incorporating the plethora of information I’ve learned from over 500 doctors, healers, clinics and more that I visited to heal my own body. I started moving away from things, places, people and energy (ex: gossip) that didn’t feel good anymore and I made a new life for myself. I started slowly and put all the pieces together of everything I’ve learned, which is what I teach at my retreats and to my private clients.

Accepting Yourself

When you start accepting yourself, you no longer worry about what other people think or say about you and your life starts to take on a whole new energy filled with flow and spontaneity because you’re truly just being YOU without any of the conditions you’ve been chaining yourself to for far too long.

You start to relax your body, which allows your mind to relax and you allow the real YOU to be seen and exposed instead of hiding that scared women inside of you. You become PROUD OF HER, that woman inside of you who is kicking and screaming to come out and play. You start to embrace the energetics of allowing and receiving and feminine and masculine, which are key for understanding manifestation and creation in your own personal life.

You no longer feel shame or guilt or hear that voice in your head saying, “Who do you think you are?!?” Because you’re learning how to reveal the real you as you accept yourself for who you are. And when that happens, WOW, life starts to really open up and new people enter your life, new paths start to open up that you never imagined before and most of all, you will sit in awe that you have come to a place where you finally accept yourself and others and let me tell you…IT IS A BEAUTIFUL THING. This is manifestation. This is creation. This is how our inner world creates our outer world. How our inner reality shapes our outer reality. This is quantum physics and this is how we start to take our power back, become the creators of our own lives and embrace our inner environment with self-acceptance because everything we experience starts inside of us.

THIS IS LIFE, ladies.

THIS is life.

All of this and so much more will be in my upcoming retreat, The Whole Body Transformation, taking place August 9-11th in Santa Cruz, California, where I’ll dive into helping you understand the missing pieces keeping you stuck, symptomatic and unwell because let’s be honest, many of the answers lay outside of the blood work and CT scans. My goal is to make you your own expert, to take back your power and most of all, learn how to listen to your body’s own feedback mechanism so you can heal yourself.

We’ll be covering plenty of manifestation, understanding trauma and the subconscious mind, limiting beliefs, detoxification, the nervous system, liver support, gut health and more because all of these elements make up the pieces that I’ve created to help you get your life back and heal yourself. There is too much toxicity and stress in our world today to just take a pill, go to the gym and eat a salad – those days are long gone. It’s time to learn how to take care of yourself so that you can transform yourself and step into the life you’re meant to live. Join me in August. I hope to see you there! Click here for more information on the retreat.

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self-worth.

Let’s talk about it.

It’s not something that I really started to fully grasp until a few years ago. Why? Well, because it’s not something we’re taught in school or in our careers; it’s something that we have to learn for ourselves and unfortunately the majority of us have very LOW self-worth because of all the things that have knocked us down a bit in our past (breakups, layoffs, losing people close to us, divorce, health issues, etc.). 

Self-worth is key for anything that we want in our lives because if we have low self-worth, we’ll be broadcasting that from our subconscious mind, which is the vibe we give off. I’m sure you’ve seen people walking down the street with their head held low or looking down and you can FEEL their energy (heck, if you’re a highly sensitive empath like me, you can probably feel their emotions and those emotions are HEAVY). Who’s with me here? What you’re picking up on is that person’s energy of what they are broadcasting out. It’s all ENERGY as we discussed last month in our Unraveling column.

So, what does self-worth have to do with this?

A lot.

If our self-worth is one of the deepest roots of where we broadcast our energy from, then what we’re giving off is a match to the worth we feel for ourselves. Sadly, as mentioned above, due to past painful experiences we’ve created a bunch of stories in our heads about what happened to us in our past that shut us down physically, emotionally and energetically. When you take a step back, you can start to see how your past has shut you down beyond just the physical, which means a bunch of kale and superfoods is only going to get you so far. 

Your Bird’s Eye View

It’s key for us to get a bird’s eye view of what’s going on in our life and what happened in our past to be able to become conscious of what’s lurking in our subconscious mind that we repressed from our past because it was too painful to feel. This might be the trigger that popped your balloon like my breakup was for me or maybe it was a divorce or the shame you felt as a child for your body or the humiliation you felt from a parent who didn’t respect your boundaries. We all have lots of ‘stuff’ lurking inside of us and it’s all stuck energy inside our bodies because emotions are just energy in motion so when you start to understand this, you can rewire your brain, recreate yourself and step into the woman you’re meant to be. I’ve talked a lot about the subconscious mind over the years and it’s key to understand how powerful it is in creating our lives, our beliefs, our perceptions and so much more.

Our Subconscious Programming

Our subconscious programming and pain from our past (especially our childhood) overrides our conscious desires so if we’re wanting to be healthy, or find a fulfilling career or manifest a conscious loving partner, we have to pull out the weeds from our subconscious that are outdated and no longer serving us. As we start to see how our limiting subconscious beliefs are getting in the way from everything we desire, we realize we don’t need them anymore and we’re ready to start creating healthier beliefs that match what our conscious mind desires such as “I am worthy”. If you’re saying “I am worthy” in your mirror and you feel hate or anger or shame and so forth, you know the message your subconscious is giving you and this tells you that even though your conscious mind says “I am worthy”, your subconscious does not agree. Your resistance that you felt in your body is a dead giveaway you’re not in alignment and there is a war between your conscious and subconscious mind. This is where the real work begins. This is how we transform our lives. This is how we manifest the health we deserve and anything else we want to call into our lives.

As you start to work with your subconscious mind and you truly FEEL worthy instead of just consciously repeating those words to yourself in the mirror, you allow the conscious and subconscious mind to align with each other. That is how we create our lives. That is how we heal ourselves. That is how we step into our power. And, it’s also why the saying that we all roll our eyes about “the answers are all within you” is TRUE! They are all within you but these answers are not accessed by using your analytical mind because that part of your mind is filled with fear and anxiety that’s run by memories and trauma from your past. 

Think about this for a moment and really let it sink in with you how powerful you are and how much power you have to shift and create and manifest your own life by shifting what’s going on internally inside of you. You can do this yourself. You don’t need anyone else to save you or fix you. Your job is to allow you to be your own expert on your mind and body. That is powerful! That is how you take back your power and that is my whole philosophy around this work…to empower you to realize you are your own expert.

This is exactly why I created this next level of my work, which will be taught in both of my upcoming retreats and is reviewed in my private sessions. What makes me so excited about this is that I wish I had something like this that connected the physical with the emotional and energetic layers of the body a decade ago when I felt helpless, alone and confused wondering who to trust and what to do next. This is the answer so many of you have been waiting for and I’ve searched high and low to see if anyone else is combining these practices and have yet to find someone who truly deeply understands how to heal the physical, emotional and energetic layers from inflammation to limiting subconscious beliefs to creative expression and manifestation and more. It’s been a really beautiful journey discovering and learning all of this first-hand and I’m honored to be healthy enough now to share this work to help you heal yourself and take your power back.

Start with Awareness

For now, awareness is the name of the game as I talked about in my series Why Staying “Safe” Makes You Feel Stuck and How to Move Forward. I suggest you start there because that will help you become more conscious of what’s going on and why you do the things you do. Then, you’ll be ready to dig into the subconscious, which is the operating system for your entire body and of course controls all your organs, so you can imagine the impact this has on your health.

Take some time for yourself, take a nice bath (try my favorite bath ingredients below) and spend some time alone. If you don’t like being alone, look at what the fear is beyond that. Do you not feel worthy of being alone? Do you feel abandoned? Do you feel scared? Do you feel like you’re not enough? Is it causing you anxiety because of all the thoughts going through your mind when you are alone because you don’t have anyone else to talk to? Look at this and start to journal it out…you’ll start to see patterns that will help you gain awareness into what’s limiting your self-worth. That’s a great place to start.

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My upcoming Whole Body Transformation Retreat in Santa Cruz, California in August a great place for you to start to dive into understanding these deeper layers of healing and to understand for yourself first-hand that healing is a journey. This retreat is my lowest price point yet, which is a great opportunity for anyone looking to meet me in person and understand the missing pieces keeping you unwell. This retreat is based on the groundbreaking new method, which I developed to help you understand and discover the emotional, energetic and physical aspects of healing. And that’s exactly what I’m here to help you with because somewhere deep inside you know that there is more than just eating clean to really bring yourself back to life. Unfortunately, there is no quick fix or magic pill for health issues. 

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