I have been fascinated by energy therapy since going to Carol Tuttle’s Energy Healing bootcamp. One of the concepts she taught us is how to clear energy residue we take on at birth. In essence, she taught us that our belief systems and habits are rooted in generations of patterns from our family system. When we are born, this generational energy is rooted in our DNA. Even if our behaviors look different than that of our parents or their parents, the generational thought and belief patterns tend to be the same. The good news is, we can clear these patterns.

What Birth Energy Reveals
I have found this to be really interesting. I never really knew much about my birth, but I did hear a lot about my sister’s. She was born with dislocated hips and had to wear a brace for 6 months or so – we always figured it must have been a difficult start for her to have to be confined in that brace. She constantly struggled to get out of it, breaking the brace and having it reset again and again. And my sister had a lot of struggles in her life as she grew up.

Every Birth A Physical Struggle
In every birth, it is experienced by the baby as a physical struggle. Additionally, as we are forming in our mother’s womb, we take on the energy of her emotions. It’s interesting to learn this – because what I have been told is that my mother was pretty stressed during her pregnancy with me and she did a lot of binging. Very interesting. I plan to talk more to my mother about this so that I can learn more about this time period. Carol says that if your mother was really stressed, sick or depressed, you could take on the energy of being a burden. That’s exactly how I felt all my life and I never realized it could have been from birth energy! Now that I understand this, I know that I can use EFT and other energy techniques to clear this energy and reframe my birth energy.
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I wanted to let you know that I am going to be on the Frankie Boyer radio show tomorrow. Frankie has great energy and she does a health show that features traditional and alternative approaches to healthy living. I didn’t realize this until I spoke to Frankie, but she is great friends with Rhonda Lenair and Donna Gates – how cool is that?

The focus of the show is going to be my recovery — and I plan to talk about how Rhonda and Donna both influenced my journey. The whole thing was a bit last minute, but I’m very excited to get the word out that recovery is possible — and there are alternative healing paths. Tonight, I’m working on what I want to say — although I’m sure much of it will be influenced by Frankie’s questions.

Other friends, like my dentist, Dr. Yolin, also know Frankie and have been on her show. Dr. Yolin is a dentist just outside of Boston who practices alternative, total health dentistry. I found him when I first started my recovery journey and he has made tremendous contributions to my health. He taught me that my “jaw to skull” relationship influenced my digestive health and immunity — and since working with him, I have started to sleep better — not to mention his great work on my teeth!

Dr. Yolin tells me that Frankie is excellent and asks really great questions. I am very comfortable going on her show after hearing so many good things about her. This is my first foray into the media — with another TV show to come in 2007, which I will tell you more about as we get into the planning stages. I am looking forward to letting people know more about eating disorders and the many paths to recovery.

Details About The Show:

• Frankie Boyer’s Website
• Frankie Boyer on WBIX 1060am & WBNW 1120am in Boston! Be sure to tune your dial to Boston’s 1060am weekdays 11am-Noon, 3pm-4pm & weekdays Noon-1:00pm on WBNW 1120am for the best in health information.
• My segment will be 11:30 am - 12:00 noon Eastern Time on Tuesday, August 22, 2006
• Click here to find out how you can listen online or in your area.

Over the weekend, I attended a class on Maya Abdominal Massage Self-Care and it was amazing! I learned more about how the body works than in just about any other class, with the exception of Donna Gates’ Certified Body Ecologist training. In fact, the Maya Abdominal Massage class created an even more complete picture of what I learned in my Certified Body Ecologist training. My class was taught by Lucy Mitchella – who blends her skills in Ayurveda, herbalism, massage therapy and nutrition with this unique form of abdominal massage.

More Than Just Abdominal Massage
Thinking I was going to mainly learn a self-care massage technique in this class, I was surprised to learn amazing details about the body’s five systems of flow: nervous, circulatory, lymphatic and aterial circulation systems. And that’s not all – we also covered the chakra system and learned many natural health solutions, such as herbal remedies, meditations and nutritional strategies.

Natural Healing - Practical and Intuitive
While at times, one could imagine that natural remedies have more of a penchant for the intuitive and less for practical things like anatomy and physiology, this couldn’t be further from the truth. We poured over diagrams and charts of anatomy and physiology. We viewed “Sam,” the skeleton and put all the body’s systems together as we contemplated how our bodies work. One of my fellow classmates, a registered nurse, said that in this class, we were learning things they didn’t teach her in nursing school. She suggested that much of the learning was about the body and how to treat it with surgery or pharmaceutical drugs. So what happens when these methods aren’t working?
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Lately, several people I know have been talking about sleep – or lack thereof. I can definitely identify because I’ve been very sleep deprived for much of my life. I’m not sure where it all began, but I do remember being about 8 years old and having the feeling of needing to urinate frequently in the night. So I’d get up and make multiple trips to the bathroom before I could get to sleep. This started making going to be pretty challenging.

In addition to that, I had sleep apnea – I was a mouth breather as a child and had to force myself to learn to breathe through my nose when I learned in school that it was better for some reason. I woke myself up a lot at night, not realizing I had stopped breathing for periods of time.

Devaluing Sleep
These experiences led me to feel like sleep wasn’t that important. In college, I could get 4 – 5 hours or less of sleep and feel okay the next day. I never drank coffee and always had energy. I didn’t realize at the time that it almost didn’t matter how many hours of sleep I got because I woke up multiple times at night anyway, gasping for breath. I didn’t realize this because I tended to fall asleep pretty quickly (after my trips to the bathroom!) and I thought I slept well.

Some Tips from Mom
A few things helped me over the years. My mother taught me a trick when I was in high school and I’d have nights where my churning thoughts over the years. She told me to say “thoughts” and see them leaving my body and dissolving into the air. And for exams the next day, she taught me to only read all the material the night before, without trying to memorize it. Then to visualize myself happy and doing really well on the exam. That and Silva UltraMind pretty much got me through college without having to study much – which is a testament to power of mind.
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I thought I was – things were going so well, but I was plagued with one thing…negativity. For some reason, it kept creeping back into my life. For me, it would show up as stress, doubt and feelings of not accepting myself just as I am. The interesting thing is, I was so calm, peaceful and happy for so long – and then it happened. I started to get busy.

Taking It Slow
You may remember that I took the creation of my business slowly, to let go of my old workaholic ways. I created a simpler life in Saba on “island time,” learning to value peace, a slower pace and the beauty of life. During this time, I experienced a kind of bliss that I’d never felt before. I nurtured my business and relished being a part of the successes my clients achieved. During this time, I was also a bit scared to commit to anything that would take up my time. Time and health became my two most prized resources.

Running Out of Time
Learning to slow down was difficult, but once I embraced it, I wasn’t really aware of just how afraid I was to lose time. And just how intertwined I believed my time and my health were. So as my business started to grow, I began to feel that old familiar stress creep back into my life. I was also surprised to see some of my old work habits slipping back in. While I kept them at bay for the most part, they were still lingering in my subconscious — chipping away at my calm, peace and health.

Sole Source of Energy
As a solopreneur – and a believer in the law of attraction — I realized that my own energy, health and success were heavily tied to my thoughts. And my thoughts were starting to slide into negativity and fear. I could see the unwanted effects in my life and I wanted to swing the pendulum back to success – back to the bliss I had created in Saba.
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