The biggest cause of the ‘holiday blues,’ in my experience, is that people feel a lack of real meaning in all of the holiday hype; they feel overwhelmed with how so many others seem to make it all about consumerism. Society also has a large part to play as far as that’s concerned.

In a “league of its own,” however, there is chronic pain and illness. This seems to baffle science. Both western and alternative medicine struggle to provide healing for these diagnoses.

Over time, both modalities have put together a menu of symptoms and tests and tagged the results with a label. Sometimes, the medicine and supplements can help, but too often, you’re given your label and sent home to try to manage it yourself with little direction.

What is your role in the time of COVID?

As the COVID-19 crisis continues, there doesn’t seem to be one “best practice” in terms of what you can do to guarantee you’ll be protected.

What about grocery shopping and cooking? The path of least resistance is the one that most of us choose. That’s why there’s an abundance of prepared meals throughout the stores and in society. What if, instead of choosing whatever is easiest, you started getting curious about what nutrients you need for your health and how to prepare them?

When your body is stressed and fatigued, it’s not healing and repairing as it should on a daily basis.

When you eat something that you know will make you ill, you disconnect from your Body Within, the inner voice that tells you that you’re making a mistake. This disconnect will get worse as you age, not better.

Self-healing comes from mindfulness, being present and listening.

We all have an idea of what we believe aging “should” look like.

For instance, many people believe their experience will be the carbon copy of their parents or other family members.

They may even go so far as to take inventory of the ailments in their family and believe that those things are their destiny, too. Or they become so preoccupied with the possibility of illness that they place themselves on the strictest of health regimens.

The key to aging gracefully and reversing damage over time is to live in what’s really happening, not what you believe to be happening.

Think about it. There are so many ways to help your back before it goes out and even afterwards. You just need to be willing to sit in this idea: “I need to make changes.” Then, you need to be willing to see the answer for what it is, not what you want it to be.

If you continue to hold onto the idea that “all I did was move and my back went out,” then you will only be limiting yourself. Those ‘health blinders’ will literally cripple you.

Once you take the time to learn about medicine, its roots, gifts and limitations, the path to healing becomes so much easier.

In each model of medicine, the doctors and practitioners are doing what they are trained to do. They have limited beliefs and understanding of how to broaden their skill sets to include you in their answers. They’re just using their training and theories. There is little room for the person who’s needs may fall outside of their scope of understanding; unfortunately, that includes most of us.

Are you faced with overall health challenges and age-related pain?

When learning how to self-heal from many types of pain, one option is to enlist the help of a chiropractor. While seeing a chiropractor can be beneficial to a point, most people are not utilizing this service to its fullest healing potential.

Healing Yourself From Within

When I see clients, their whole being is consumed by their pain and how unlucky they feel. It seems unfair to them that they have to make all these changes and adjustments in areas of their lives that most people don’t ever consider. They feel that everyone else is lucky, and they’ve drawn the short straw in life.

Tired of the the information on what you should be doing to self-heal and age gracefully. Learn that healing takes time and you are the one in the drivers seat not the quick fixes.

\While it might not be as appealing as a fad diet, this kind of work that builds on itself is what leads to sustainable and long term change.