This Is My Story
Why am I so passionate about helping you connect to your Body Within?
Here is a picture of me 25 years ago.
I had always been in pain as long as I could remember, starting with being born with severe allergies. I can remember always being severely congested and always having to work harder at everything than others did. The physical challenges were minor compared to the emotional challenges I faced as a child.
I had multiple knee injuries and surgeries as well as other physical injuries by the time I was 17. Along with having three C-sections and a damaged jaw from trauma, now I suffered thoracic outlet syndrome.
The face, head and shoulder pain were so bad I opted for a radical surgery to remove my first rib to correct pinched nerves in my right arm. This resulted in long thoracic nerve damage and left me with what you see in this picture. My shoulder girdle could not stabilize itself; the right side of my body became heavy, painful, and useless.
My whole right-side function was extremely limited. My life had become extremely complicated.
As I wrote in my book, The Missing Piece To Health And Aging Gracefully, all my support systems had failed me and I was only left with myself.
As a child being faced with adversity it seemed like an answer would always come out of nowhere. Now as an adult I needed that same guidance. As I started to seek the answers, I realized I was getting them from myself -- myself without any blinders, judgment, fear, or guilt. Just clear problem-solving solutions that always work out. I call it my Body Within.
Medicine was not working, so I asked myself what was next.
As I learned to reconnect to that voice, what I now call the Body Within, I heard as a child, I gave myself 6 months to allow my Body Within to guide me and to heal all my ailments. After 6 months of working as hard as I could, I was still not better. I crashed a bit, but this knowing inside of me kept saying:
“You may not be completely better, but you can do more than you could 6 months ago. You can do this. Just keep going, it’s going to take time.”
So, I put another 6 months on the calendar and the same thing happened. I was getting better.
It has now been over 20 years and I am the healthiest and strongest I have ever been. I am now 55. Even as I age, I just keep getting healthier! Where would I be if I had not started to listen to my Body Within and only listened to the medical guidance being thrown at me from all directions?
I work with people with many new and old injuries, who are dealing with chronic pain and illness.
There are many struggles that come with navigating the western and alternative worlds of medicine. The confusion, conflicting information, financial strain and frustration often leaves people feeling defeated.
The problem is that most people are looking for someone to fix them and to do it quickly. Approaching healing in this way, they end up spending more time and more money with no results. I have watched many of my clients take the time to connect to their Body Within and get to know themselves, their bodies, and why they make the decisions they make to heal. What happens is healing shifts from a dead end, to endless possibilities.
My Body Within has guided me toward becoming the strongest and healthiest I have ever been.
As I age, my focus is to get stronger and healthier, rather than fall into the norm of getting weaker as you age.
I am telling you this story because it’s important to share that in all these years there has never been a quick fix or a single path toward healing for me. And I see the same for my clients.
What I have seen is a progression of listening to the Body Within, letting it guide us through all the information that has come our way. We learn to live a peaceful balanced life. Listening to the Body Within has yielded results not thought possible by medicine. I’ve seen it in myself and so many others.
Everything in life is a gift, to give you more knowledge in seeing yourself clearer and making the healing possible and endless.
My online courses and free meditations are based on what I have learned in 20 years of serving myself and others in a healing capacity. They are there to guide you as you discover how to tap into your own Body Within.
If you take time to get to know your Body Within you will get to know yourself at the deepest level and become the answer to your healing journey.