What Does It Take To Truly Heal

Healing is a misunderstood word. We often think of it as the goal or destination.

But healing is an active process. It’s ongoing and constantly shifting and changing.

I’ve never met or read about one person who is fully “healed” in this modern era.

You might be “healed” from cancer a respiratory virus from the perspective that it’s managed or no longer detectable. But are you truly healed?

What allowed you to become sick in the first place? (That is another blog for another time because the evolving understanding of terrain theory vs. germ theory is mind-blowing).

The cancerous tumor may be gone, the lingering cough from bronchitis may have resolved, your athlete’s foot may seem to be remedied, but what allowed those malfunctions to happen in the first place? (And that’s what they are-malfunctions in your immune system, specifically).

Healing is active and ongoing.

The world around us is never NOT presenting us with the burden of chemicals, stress, toxins, radiation, EMFs…etc, etc, etc.

We always need to be defending our health with nourishing food, stress management, detoxification supports, healthy movement practices, and sleep.

Healing takes time.

Boy, don’t I know this to be the truth. You cannot undo years of pain, stress, poor habits, and toxic burden in 3 months. Or even 6 months. Sometimes not even in a year.

We live in a time where everything is at our fingertips. We want things to be fixed NOW. I am personally very guilty of this in my own life. Allopathic medicine has taught us to believe that a “pill for every ill” is the only way to heal.

But I propose that there is an alternative approach.

A holistic approach teaches us that there is a root and driving cause for every “ill” and that true health can’t be achieved until that is uncovered.

Struggling with weight? There are immediate strategies we can put into place that will help, but getting your health back on track is not as simple as cutting calories, and exercising more, and it takes time. You can’t diet or exercise your way out of years of overeating (or undereating). Your body requires more love than just that (ahem, especially as we age). Healing on a weight loss journey includes looking at trauma, detoxification, stress, sleep, and one’s relationship with food in addition to looking at the macronutrient and calorie breakdown.

Not sleeping and feeling like you’ve tried everything? Often we have to dig deep into past trauma to resolve the reason we are waking up or not able to fall asleep. I’m finding more and more in the clients I work with, poor sleep is rampant, even with good “sleep hygiene” practices. There is a deeper underlying cause that can only be discovered when you think of healing as an active process. It’s not a “fix-me” process. Parasites, imbalances in hormones, mold, and EMFs need to be addressed as well.

Candida? Mold? Parasites? Unfortunately, most of the clients I work with have one of these, if not all. And guess what? The complex interchange between them can take a while to resolve, especially if you are in an environment that contains mold because Candida and parasites love a moldy environment. The protocols to address these require adjustments as we go along to get it just right for what your body needs.

Constipated? It’s not a Miralax deficiency, I’ll tell you that! This one can be an easy fix or it can be very, very complicated. And the length to achieve healing from this depends on how long you’ve been struggling with it. Newly constipated in the past few months? Easier fix than if you’ve been struggling with it since you were a baby. Side note: I’ve been working with babies and toddlers with constipation issues lately and it’s so key to figure out the cause early. Constipation is a hard cycle to break once it becomes a prolonged issue.

Healing through the holidays.

As we head into a frantic holiday season. This is not the time to beat up on yourself for not “eating perfectly” or exercising “enough.”

This is a time to love on yourself and actively engage in healing.

Healing starts with how you talk to yourself.

And it can be done simultaneously with enjoying the holidays.

Long after the protocols are gone, the parasites have been removed, your detox pathways are running smoothly, and you are feeling your best, how you talk to yourself will still be there.

Will the words you choose to say to yourself as you experience life imperfectly (because, news flash, not one of us humans is perfect), help or harm your healing process?

Moral of the story?

Be kind to yourself, be patient with yourself, and remember that healing is not a destination. It’s a daily practice to engage in because you deserve it.