You may have heard the word ‘healing’ being thrown about lately, but what is it??? It’s quite the gruelling journey, so what are the benefits of healing your body? Better yet, is it even possible!?

Yes! Healing is possible, but it looks different for everyone.

WHAT IS ‘HEALING’?

Healing is about returning something back to its original state of homeostasis or wholeness – which is essentially putting something back together once it has been ‘broken’.

For a surface wound, we all know what healing is – the repair of a broken bone, or how the surface of the skin seals up, and the wound is no longer present. We all know the body can do that, and we don’t ever question it.

I’m talking about another kind – healing your body, mind and heart.

Taking a part of us that was broken or wounded and returning it back to homeostasis.

This is a process of exploring your subconscious beliefs and subconscious patterns, and exploring the physical body to release stored energy and trauma.

You also have to make a lot of hard choices – regarding your lifestyle, habits, relationships, work. You need to look at everything objectively as you work through the layers.

HOW DO YOU KNOW IF YOU CAN HEAL?

Its not for me to tell you whether or not you can heal, but I can share my own journey to wholeness, and confirm I have met countless others along the way who have healed even more serious conditions than me. In the latest Dr; Joe Dispenza retreat I attended, a woman had re-grown a part of her bowel!!

Based on my personal experiences, I can confirm: we can heal from almost anything – depression, chronic health conditions, PTSD – I’ve done it, and I’ve seen others do it, time and time again.

Modern medicine does not ‘heal’. It plugs a hole, or removes pieces of the whole in order to stop the dysfunction quickly. Sometimes this is essential, but often times it is not. I don’t believe you can ‘heal’ this way, but I do believe that for some, it is the best option, and often with this path you can stop a disease process in its tracks.

I was upset along my journey, as no one ever told me I could heal – but once I learned you could, there was not going to be any stopping me!

So healing, in the truest sense, is not about supplementing the body with an exogenous compound. It’s about exploring the root cause of your ailment, and tracing that right back to its origins.

WHAT GOES OUT OF BALANCE CAN FIND BALANCE ONCE AGAIN

I’ve turned by back on both the medical and psychiatric system, and healed from depression, anxiety, PTSD, chronic fatigue, food allergies and body dysmorphia.

Meditation, lifestyle, shamanism, somatic therapy, psychotherapy, plant medicines, sound healings and internal family systems work, they all helped me along this path.

I no longer struggle with, or identify with having those conditions, though there are remnants of my illness at times – but this is offers me a much higher quality of life than I was looking at before I started the journey.

We are each on our own journeys and no path looks the same.

With all that said, know I’ve met countless others who have healed from the most terrifying of illnesses or circumstances, all because they decided to heal, and opened up to the possibility, instead of stopping at the diagnosis point.

Healing is about working with the body, trusting its capacity. It’s about getting out of our own way, opening up to a higher power (your power, and the power of your body).

When you do that, you find yourself truly healing your body, mind and heart.

Jen x