A healthy life...
“Wellness is the complete integration of body, mind, and spirit – the realisation that everything we do, think, feel, and believe has an effect on our state of well-being.” – Greg Anderson
What is a healthy life?
What does it really look like?
For some of my clients that is a really difficult vision, I know it is definitely something I struggled with.
When I ask the question, I often get the answer 'peace' and so I ask, 'and what does peace look, feel, sound like? '
It's challenging. The Soul truly wants healthy, it wants peace. But the human is struggling with the how.
For some of us, we have never felt a sense of peace or safety or healthy in any way. We don't have many memories or experiences to draw on.
So how do we find it, this elusive peace? How do we get to this place our Soul's are calling us to? More importantly how willing are we to to do the things we need to get there?
When I began to experience change and transformation into a more healthy and peaceful life, it was through illness. Life pushed me to change and it wasn't easy or pretty, but in the discomfort is where I found my strength, courage and fortitude.
At first I held high hopes, it all looked like a panacea, an oasis in the chaos of what my life had become. My expectations were enormous.
I used women's circles, ceremonies, retreats, sound baths, diets, protocols and regimes. I thought if I did the 'right' things then the Universe would naturally provide me with what I needed. Life would be simpler, stress free and easy. My need to get out of pain was such that I would bombard my body with the things that would fix my life forever.
It was start for sure, the beginning of a journey to find a healthy life. But underneath there was a lack of understanding of the extra layers I had to peel away. Because although I was doing better, I was still experiencing emotional imbalance, high levels of anxiety, periods of depression and unable to healthily express my feelings or even feel them some days.
Most of us try to avoid emotional pain, we think if we can avoid it, it won't affect us. This may work in the short term but in the long run it will keep us in cycles of unhealthy living. It will affect our thoughts, yes, but also our physical lives too. Our relationships, work life, ability to rest, sleep and find joy.
Avoidance won't work because pain is an inevitable part of life, but the reasons we don't want to feel our emotions may be because we were taught not to. Maybe we were told or taught to supress them, maybe it wasn't safe to express our feelings at earlier stages in our lives.
Learning to safely release, explore, be curious, sense and track our emotions is the key to this sense of peace or safety. Integrating all of the parts of us that feel stuck, lost and trapped is the way to begin walking a path of ups and downs without being jostled too much either way by any storms that may pass by.
My own journey got more uncomfortable recently, but it also brought so much more awareness, compassion, support, growth and learning than any other I have experienced.
The levels of peace by just being in my own presence and living life doing what I love (and sometimes what I don't love) have been incredible.
The work I offer is built to support you to safely release and process. It builds inner strength and resilience to enable you to find emotional balance, peace and safety.
It isn't a quick fix and it can be challenging work and that's why finding the right support is necessary.
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“A sad soul can kill you quicker, far quicker than a germ.” – John Steinbeck