Let me know if you find yourself getting stuck into any one of them in particular 🙂
Reducing inflammation is a big one. It blows my mind that this does not form part of our healthcare here in the uk, ie you have an inflammatory condition. First port of call: look into ways to reduce inflammation. It’s the same with emotional dysregulation (one know medical root cause to migraine and seems to be a big link to other chronic illness too - let’s learn to emotionally regulate (this took me past what is medically believed possible in my healing).
Acceptance is a big one too. Managing expectations or others misunderstanding is huge. In the end, it was noise to me. And became about learning to drown out the noise and tune in to what I knew to be true all along (it was me that was disabled by illness, not them. It was me that was solely responsible for a £700 a month mortgage, not them. My responsibility = my way! Was pretty much how I moved forward).
Though clearly, none of this was easy. Mostly, the hardest thing I’ve ever done in my life. But similarly the things I am most proud of and my health benefits have been significant year on year as a result.
Thank you for your article listing so many useful resources in one place - I'm looking forward to getting stuck in. Have you read the 'Really Strange' boxset by Steven Haines? It includes four books focusing on pain, touch, anxiety and trauma - when I was first trying to get to grips with past trauma, it was really useful for me in breaking things down and getting the point across without feeling too overwhelming. The books are written in a comic style with beautiful artwork by Sophie Standing
I haven’t even heard of those books. Sounds like I could have done with them a few years ago.
I’ve def been on a journey of healing trauma - some of blocked out, some self inflicted and ancestral trauma too as well as childhood.
Been at it for years (largely with deep healing treatment, bodywork).
The more I heal, the less anxiety I feel. The less anxiety I feel and the more I heal, the further down the pain and symptoms reduce. I’m well now, most of the time. The pain I live with is mild for the first time in my adult life. I’ve always believed I can heal myself fully, the improvements continue, the symptoms I live with are so few now.
What are your beliefs around healing your body and its symptoms?
I'm sorry to hear you've had to deal with so much trauma, but it's amazing that you've been able to process it and improve your wellness. It's inspiring to me that you've achieved such a change through listening to your body and making changes based on that. I'm on a similar journey, but much nearer the start - I've only this year remembered childhood trauma that I had blocked out. As well as conventional treatments, I'm trying to heal through other ways too as I believe that physical, mental and emotional health are so closely linked - I hope that by dealing with my trauma, all aspects of my wellness will improve.
You’re very clued up to be so early on. That’s a huge insight to have about the trauma and then to be able to make the link between our physical mental and emotional health. It’s not a path for the faint hearted but it does lead to improved health so it’s one I’m glad to have ventured along. Can’t wait to see how you continue to learn and heal and grow 💛💚
This is a great list Amber, so much to get into. I think inflammation is a big part of it for me. Reducing this has helped so much. For me it’s also about accepting a different way of life, and finding ways to manage the lack of understanding from others which can be so draining. 💛
Me toooo! It was when I read you can heal your life back in 2019 that I realised I was on a healing journey. I loved the lesser well known book “the power is within you”. It was through reading this I got the message that i needed to learn to befriend the pain. As severe and agonising as it was. See it as the communicator it was trying to be to me. Now I live with only mild pain (in the main) - a pain level so low I’d never experienced in my life up until 2022/23. (Either that or I wouldn’t have previously classed that as pain for the first 25 years)
Excellent resources! Several were also mine. I started a bibliography years ago when I started my book. I’ll look for it after I’m done moving. Off the top of my head I would add Wayne Dyer, Greg Braden, Anita Moorjani, Joe Dispenza, Dan Millman, Deepak Chopra, Don Miguel, Ruiz, Carl Jung, Dr. Candace Pert, “What the bleep do we know?” (a docudrama), Dr. Andrew Weil, John Cabot-Zinn, Inna Segal, and the list does go on. (I’ve been doing healing work since 2000.)
I’ve been at it since 2018 so still in the early years. I now see it as a gift that I had the space I did to tackle it in the way I have.
I’m going to share a further resource later on around energy. I might add Joe Dispenza to that.
Ive read a fair few of the ones you mention here but not others. I wish I’d kept a spreadsheet now as I must’ve read over a 100. Research has been a big part of my journey which I can see it has been for you too. I cannot wait to read your book. Memoir (on any topic) have become my favourite read in and amongst all this.
Thanks Amber! I look forward to reading more of your posts. Some of your sources are also new to me, and it’s nice to explore more. Yeah, once I started on my healing journey, my life changed and the journey will continue as long as I have breath.
Same! I remember declaring early on “I’m taking this as far as it can go”. I had no idea what doors were yet to open, any of what lay ahead - but I meant what I said.
Now I’m experiencing more wellness than I ever have in my entire adult life. I’m also the truest to myself that I’ve ever been. The health improvements continue. I understand the complexities of what I’ve been living with all this time. I also understand why medically we label what I’ve achieved as impossible. It’s a path and journey that’s not for the faint hearted. And the systems we currently have in place do not support wellness with very little out there supporting recovery either.
The biggest frustration is that the gatekeepers for US insurance/medicare don’t cover procedures that actually help us, so we have to pay for it ourselves.
It’s the lack of education in its entirety for me. A lot of the practices that lead to improved health can be and often are, free. If we had accesss to that, I wonder how many of the procedures, treatments etc we would need in the first place 🤔
Those last two sentences we could definitely expound upon. When I went back to my doctor during disability after I healed, I hoped he would have some interest in how I did it. All he said was “Well you can’t argue with success.“ Most are locked into the Western medical model and unwilling to explore and change their belief systems.
I experienced the same ! Little to no interest. It left me wondering how they can tell us what’s possible and what isn’t when they don’t have any interest in the complexities of the illness in the first place then add to that no interest in the recovery and how it’s happened?
Thank you. It’s such a small selection of what I’ve read but so expansive at the same time. Preparing this has really made me reflect on the distance and depths of my research and journey. Big appreciation and deeper understanding of why I am where I am now:
Let me know if you find yourself getting stuck into any one of them in particular 🙂
Reducing inflammation is a big one. It blows my mind that this does not form part of our healthcare here in the uk, ie you have an inflammatory condition. First port of call: look into ways to reduce inflammation. It’s the same with emotional dysregulation (one know medical root cause to migraine and seems to be a big link to other chronic illness too - let’s learn to emotionally regulate (this took me past what is medically believed possible in my healing).
Acceptance is a big one too. Managing expectations or others misunderstanding is huge. In the end, it was noise to me. And became about learning to drown out the noise and tune in to what I knew to be true all along (it was me that was disabled by illness, not them. It was me that was solely responsible for a £700 a month mortgage, not them. My responsibility = my way! Was pretty much how I moved forward).
Though clearly, none of this was easy. Mostly, the hardest thing I’ve ever done in my life. But similarly the things I am most proud of and my health benefits have been significant year on year as a result.
Thank you for your article listing so many useful resources in one place - I'm looking forward to getting stuck in. Have you read the 'Really Strange' boxset by Steven Haines? It includes four books focusing on pain, touch, anxiety and trauma - when I was first trying to get to grips with past trauma, it was really useful for me in breaking things down and getting the point across without feeling too overwhelming. The books are written in a comic style with beautiful artwork by Sophie Standing
I haven’t even heard of those books. Sounds like I could have done with them a few years ago.
I’ve def been on a journey of healing trauma - some of blocked out, some self inflicted and ancestral trauma too as well as childhood.
Been at it for years (largely with deep healing treatment, bodywork).
The more I heal, the less anxiety I feel. The less anxiety I feel and the more I heal, the further down the pain and symptoms reduce. I’m well now, most of the time. The pain I live with is mild for the first time in my adult life. I’ve always believed I can heal myself fully, the improvements continue, the symptoms I live with are so few now.
What are your beliefs around healing your body and its symptoms?
I'm sorry to hear you've had to deal with so much trauma, but it's amazing that you've been able to process it and improve your wellness. It's inspiring to me that you've achieved such a change through listening to your body and making changes based on that. I'm on a similar journey, but much nearer the start - I've only this year remembered childhood trauma that I had blocked out. As well as conventional treatments, I'm trying to heal through other ways too as I believe that physical, mental and emotional health are so closely linked - I hope that by dealing with my trauma, all aspects of my wellness will improve.
You’re very clued up to be so early on. That’s a huge insight to have about the trauma and then to be able to make the link between our physical mental and emotional health. It’s not a path for the faint hearted but it does lead to improved health so it’s one I’m glad to have ventured along. Can’t wait to see how you continue to learn and heal and grow 💛💚
This is a great list Amber, so much to get into. I think inflammation is a big part of it for me. Reducing this has helped so much. For me it’s also about accepting a different way of life, and finding ways to manage the lack of understanding from others which can be so draining. 💛
I love Louise Hay.
Me toooo! It was when I read you can heal your life back in 2019 that I realised I was on a healing journey. I loved the lesser well known book “the power is within you”. It was through reading this I got the message that i needed to learn to befriend the pain. As severe and agonising as it was. See it as the communicator it was trying to be to me. Now I live with only mild pain (in the main) - a pain level so low I’d never experienced in my life up until 2022/23. (Either that or I wouldn’t have previously classed that as pain for the first 25 years)
Excellent resources! Several were also mine. I started a bibliography years ago when I started my book. I’ll look for it after I’m done moving. Off the top of my head I would add Wayne Dyer, Greg Braden, Anita Moorjani, Joe Dispenza, Dan Millman, Deepak Chopra, Don Miguel, Ruiz, Carl Jung, Dr. Candace Pert, “What the bleep do we know?” (a docudrama), Dr. Andrew Weil, John Cabot-Zinn, Inna Segal, and the list does go on. (I’ve been doing healing work since 2000.)
Thanks Grace!
Healing since 2000 - W😍W
I’ve been at it since 2018 so still in the early years. I now see it as a gift that I had the space I did to tackle it in the way I have.
I’m going to share a further resource later on around energy. I might add Joe Dispenza to that.
Ive read a fair few of the ones you mention here but not others. I wish I’d kept a spreadsheet now as I must’ve read over a 100. Research has been a big part of my journey which I can see it has been for you too. I cannot wait to read your book. Memoir (on any topic) have become my favourite read in and amongst all this.
Thanks Amber! I look forward to reading more of your posts. Some of your sources are also new to me, and it’s nice to explore more. Yeah, once I started on my healing journey, my life changed and the journey will continue as long as I have breath.
Same! I remember declaring early on “I’m taking this as far as it can go”. I had no idea what doors were yet to open, any of what lay ahead - but I meant what I said.
Now I’m experiencing more wellness than I ever have in my entire adult life. I’m also the truest to myself that I’ve ever been. The health improvements continue. I understand the complexities of what I’ve been living with all this time. I also understand why medically we label what I’ve achieved as impossible. It’s a path and journey that’s not for the faint hearted. And the systems we currently have in place do not support wellness with very little out there supporting recovery either.
The biggest frustration is that the gatekeepers for US insurance/medicare don’t cover procedures that actually help us, so we have to pay for it ourselves.
It’s the lack of education in its entirety for me. A lot of the practices that lead to improved health can be and often are, free. If we had accesss to that, I wonder how many of the procedures, treatments etc we would need in the first place 🤔
Those last two sentences we could definitely expound upon. When I went back to my doctor during disability after I healed, I hoped he would have some interest in how I did it. All he said was “Well you can’t argue with success.“ Most are locked into the Western medical model and unwilling to explore and change their belief systems.
I experienced the same ! Little to no interest. It left me wondering how they can tell us what’s possible and what isn’t when they don’t have any interest in the complexities of the illness in the first place then add to that no interest in the recovery and how it’s happened?
What a great resource list! 💚
Thank you….ive now got a resource list building for those interested in energy work
And connecting with energy. Going to fill this one out with story related info at some point too ☺️
An amazing resource! 💚
What a brilliant resource Amber! ✨
Thank you. It’s such a small selection of what I’ve read but so expansive at the same time. Preparing this has really made me reflect on the distance and depths of my research and journey. Big appreciation and deeper understanding of why I am where I am now: