Going beyond the physical is the key.
An injury or a diagnosis changes your life. In a split second, everything is different.
Confusion, pain, fear, worries, then anxiety, frustration, anger, loss of confidence, and so many other things kick in.
Physical trauma has a much bigger impact on a person than what meets the naked eye.
The conventional approach is treating that part of the body as a separate component, or like mechanical damage that only requires mechanical treatment. (And a large part of healing injuries is also just waiting for the body to repair itself.)
Yes, the body is an incredible system, and it has been designed to heal itself. Many times it just needs that extra bit of support to put itself back together after it’s been hurt or damaged.
Your body is built to thrive.
However, the way we live, the things that we learn, the information that we are exposed to day in and day out, are often what’s keeping us from becoming fully aware of the true healing power that we possess and it’s how we actually limit ourselves.
Having the necessary support and allowing yourself to get guidance is important – however, no one can heal you.
No doctor, no physiotherapist, no chiropractor, no other medical professional can do that for you.
We can help, but remember that you have this healing potential within you and only you can allow yourself to release it.
Releasing your true healing potential is easy, as well as complicated.
Anything negative happening within you manifests itself externally.
It’s a ripple effect that starts in the invisible and slowly but surely becomes visible. This can mean slow progress (or sometimes no progress at all), complications, stubborn pain, lack of mobility and flexibility (despite complicated exercises and workout routines), etc.
Healing from physical trauma takes a whole person.
You cannot separate your whole being from that body part. Your emotional and mental states affect your recovery.
Your fears, doubts, beliefs, anxiety, sadness, frustration, guilt, shame, anger – just to name a few – all affect you and your healing.
And it doesn’t matter if your emotions and thoughts are connected to something that happened recently or if there’s something that you’ve been carrying around for years or decades.
Unprocessed negative emotions don’t magically disappear after the event is over. They get stored in the body and cause additional problems because they lower the healing energy.
Your healing potential cannot be released completely and so you struggle… on every level (not just physically, although this might be the most obvious part of it).
So even though events that happened months, years, or decades ago may appear to have nothing to do with your current healing, they are slowly but surely robbing you of complete freedom from this physical trauma.
And this is where my expertise comes in.
How everything started…
It was a beautiful sunny day. One of those that no one could have ever predicted it would end with me in a hospital.
But it did. On the last day of October 2012, I broke and dislocated my right talus bone while rock climbing.
Over the next 4 days – while lying in a hospital bed waiting for the doctors to decide on what to do next – I heard heart-dropping predictions. That my ankle would never be the same again. That I’d have serious issues walking on uneven surfaces or that I might walk with a limp for the rest of my life. As well as arthritis and a big possibility of developing avascular necrosis (the talus bone dying off, which would mean extra operations that might or might not be successful.)
If you’ve ever been offered a similar prognosis, I don’t need to tell you how scary it is.
The truth about the process…
As the cast was removed and I got the green light for physiotherapy, I thought my ankle would be back to normal in weeks. But there I was – a few months into my ‘recovery’ – still limping, in pain, and unable to make it up a flight of stairs.
That’s when I started worrying that the doctors might have been right, after all. That the rock-climbing, exercising, the days out hiking with my then-fiancé would be just distant memories from then on.
But there was a part of me that from the beginning refused to believe every doctors’ prediction. I knew I was way more capable than any of the medical professionals could see and perceive.
I decided to do things my way by listening to my intuition, following my heart, and healing a lot more than just what was recommended to me (AKA just doing the exercises for my ankle).
This was the best decision I could have made!
Doing things differently and beyond the physical aspect of recovery made the whole difference in my journey.
My ankle healed in a way that surprised my doctors and physiotherapists. It got back the mobility and it became pain-free. I started to walk and run without pain, I even finished two long-distance triathlons. I was back in my high heels.
If you are in any way impressed by this, let me highlight that it was just a natural consequence of all the things that I was really doing and that went beyond just the physical aspect of recovery.
And when I developed chronic pain in my hips and lower back in 2017, I knew exactly what I needed to do to become free from this beast!
I needed to walk the talk and start implementing everything that I’d learned years ago and what I’d been guiding my clients through.
Lo and behold, it worked again!
Yet again, it was a natural consequence because when we give the body an environment in which it can thrive, the whole being starts to thrive.
Going beyond the obvious!
The principle of my work is going beyond just the physical parts that are needed to support the body to heal itself.
I approach healing holistically and combine all the aspects needed for you to truly heal and start thriving.
In the process, we start resolving things happening internally that are preventing your body from healing itself the way it’s capable of.
This is the key to heal completely and finally become free of your physical trauma.
I will guide you through the labyrinth of physical trauma and together we’ll rediscover your true essence so that you can become whole again.
Mary L.
Kevin M.
Tasha S.
Anu C.
Virginia C.
Vilasi V.
9 random things about me
#1 I always wanted to do triathlons, but I only did my first race after doctors told me I would limp for the rest of my life because of my ankle fracture.
#2 I’ve jumped out of an airplane 5 times, always with my husband, Jerry (he’s done over 7000 skydives), and every one of them was from a different aircraft (3 planes, 2 helicopters).
#3 I’ve always known that the cats can be trained.
#4 I truly believe that everything is possible.
#5 One of my favorite subjects at university was pathology (creepy truth: I loved opening the bodies, exploring them and finding out the cause of death).
#6 When I was a child I loved carrots so much that one day I ate so many my skin turned orange. My mum, of course, freaked out, thinking it was jaundice.
#7 I love scaring people but don’t really enjoy it when someone else does it to me.
#8 I’m a great snow-angel-person, but I’m pretty much useless on skis – hence the fact we live in the Carribean part of the world.
#9 I believe that gifts should be wrapped because it’s just weird to get a gift in a gift bag. Isn’t it?
