Relief and Release

Ever have one of those life-changing experiences and say to yourself, “I’m telling everyone I know about this!”? I had one of those experiences this week. The more aligned I am to an awakening path, the more the synchronicities are visible. My heart follows the adventure, the collaboration, and the rhythm circles of creation.  Feeling my way through the darkness into the new paradigm is a sacred experience.  

Before I tell you about this golden nugget of relief and release…some back story is necessary. I was living in Green Hills (Nashville, TN) in 2012. Who I am is an undeniable connection with nature. Take me into the woods, I become. Put me on the shore, I cleanse. Find me beside the fire, I surrender. Submerge me in ice, I ignite.  Settle me in prayer, I fly.

On one of those hot and sultry spring Tennessee days, I found a dead bird in my back yard. With deep and sacred prayer intention, I buried that bird. Afterwards, I went inside, cuddled up with my cats and took a Sunday snooze. That day changed my life.  I woke up and had been bitten by an army of something…I had huge section of rash and swelling on my waist. The next 10 years I had mystery sicknesses, mystery allergic reactions, and all of it left untreated illnesses. Treatment didn’t even start until March 2024. The illness is its own story which isn’t why I write today, but it is how I got to, “I am telling everyone about this!”

I write today about the wellness and why seeking relief and release is essential.  In depths of brutal battles with pain and inflammation, I learn to become my own advocate.  I learned to do all my own research about the body, the gut, inflammation, arthritis, cancers, the microbiome, and I learned that I want to live in a system of wellness. If I want wellness, I seek it out and follow it. I want wellness for me. I want wellness for my clients.  I simply don’t agree to the old contracts anymore - that healing takes a long time or that wellness is only available through hospitals or western medications. I don’t agree anymore that to get to the provider (the one who can help) should cost zillions of dollars or that I would need multiple referrals. There are people and businesses trailblazing healing and wellness. I followed a trail blaze and had a somatic experience of my water shedding.

This last week, I toured Watershed Coop (Madison, TN) with one of the founders, Missy Prusinski. What a breath of fresh air the experience was!  My favorite part is out back in the parking lot. There is a full-size refrigerator filled with food – the freezer, also, bursting with goodies.  Anyone who needs it can help themselves and anyone who wants to leave something is invited to do so.  There are also some cabinets where dry goods and other items are stored. Yes, this is a true gift to the Madison community.

Back to the story…after spending March to June in Delaware and Toronto, this Nashville July and August heat has been overwhelming to my body. During the last ten days, I have experienced some of the most severe pain in my gut, joints, and muscles I have ever known. Stabbing. Shooting. Twisting. The kind of pain that wakes me up crying out for my mother in the middle of the night.  The pain that leaves me rolled into a ball resting on tear-soaked bedsheets.

Monday morning, at Watershed, I had a session with Collins for my first manual lymphatic drainage massage.    My two-hour healing experience was all of what I wanted and needed as a client. The entirety of pain was gone within the first 15 minutes.  I had spiritual experiences and visions. I cried. I laughed. We did breathwork. I let go.  I returned the pain to Mother Earth, so she can transform it back into love.  I went from being able to feel a faint heartbeat and wanting my body to evaporate when I woke up yesterday to experiencing the entire flow of the liquid in my skin and around my organs. I can still feel how big the space surrounding the heart really is.  I feel better than I have in months. I want to be in my skin. I can delight in my body.

I followed the aftercare instructions to drink water and take a bath in dead sea salts. Waking up pain free, with a restoration of body and mind the next day was marvelous.  My illness has taught me to find the facts and seek out wellness solutions that are affordable, effective, sustainable, and easy.  My experience at Watershed was all that and then some.  I can still feel the internal integration 24 hours later, and it is delightful. My 50 trillion cells are filled with abundant light and movement.

Like I said at the beginning, the more aligned I am with my devotion to awakening, the more the synchronicities are visible. Had I let myself listen to those other providers over the years, I would have believed, “it was all in my head” and “there was nothing to be done.” I am so proud of who I have become. My heart follows the adventure, the collaboration, and the rhythm circles of creation.  Feeling a way through the darkness into our new paradigm is sacred experience.  

Healing is available. Healing is abundant. Healing can be rapid, fun, gentle, and uplifting. This is the new paradigm. This is a part of my collaboration. This is a part of my contribution.

Thank you to the Watershed Coop and Collins for relief and release. Thank you for the opportunity to be a on the receiving end of effective healing for all of me.

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