A client found her way to me in the throes of critical illness. My work was to support her potential remission, as part of her integrated wellness team.

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She was estranged from her parents and harboring years of resentment - feeding the roots of her diagnosis. We worked together to unravel the psychosomatic stories, eating away at her from the inside-out.

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Relationships are full of complexities, and she had tried over the years - with little success - to resolve what seemed to be irreconcilable differences. Her parents were not receptive.

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Our work together involved a weaving together of energy medicine and the shifting of her focus away from trying to ‘fix’ external relationships. She began to develop a deeper understanding of the psychosomatic relationship between her unresolved trauma and her critical illness.

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The practice was to speak the unspeakable, shift the energy, and change the story. Through a supported process of writing letters, she never intended to send; speaking out loud what had been silenced; and the practice of intentional release, she was able to let go of the resentment, the anger, and feelings of betrayal that previously felt unshakable.

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After years of estrangement, the silence was eventually broken. The estrangement had met the space to heal, and her parents reached out - not because she pushed for reconciliation. It shifted because she had cleared the way in - to receptivity.

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As I understand it, she is still in remission today.

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*In humility, this is not every body’s story. It is best to remember - it takes a village… and sometimes divine intervention to heal the big stuff. Sometimes, even that is not enough.

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We all hold a piece of the puzzle of wellness in a connected system designed to bring us back into balance. What that will look like for each of us is something no one can ever predict.​