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Can we really heal from health conditions, and can we heal from the past?

YES! We absolutely can. I am living proof, as are thousands of others – you just have to get out there and look. You’ll find so many examples.

What is ‘Healing’, anyway?

Healing is about returning something back to its original state of homeostasis. For a wound, we all know what healing is – the repair of a broken bone, or then the surface of the skin seals up and the wound is no longer present.

I’m talking about another kind here, which is the healing of the heart, mind and body. It’s taking a part of us that was broken or wounded and returning it back to homeostasis.

Contrary to popular belief, we can heal from almost anything – depression, cancer, PTSD – we can heal. I’ve seen it, time and time again.

I first uncovered the concept whilst reading Dr. Joe Dispenza and Lissa Rankin’s transformational books about the placebo effect, and documented cases of spontaneous healing. They covered so many examples of people who came back from the most hopeless of situations based on belief alone.

Healing is not to be confused with modern medicine, where they plug a hole with a pill or destroy healthy cells to get to the unhealthy ones. It’s not about supplementing the body with an exogenous compound. It’s about exploring the cause of your ailment and following that right to the root.

What goes out of balance can return to balance again.

I’ve turned by back on both the medical and psychiatric industries in my life, and healed from depression, anxiety, PTSD, chronic fatigue, food allergies and body dysmorphia. But my goal was never to keep the conditions and take a pill, it was always to heal it.

Meditation, lifestyle, somatic therapy, psychotherapy, plant medicines, sound healings and internal family systems work saw me heal. I no longer struggle with, or identify with having those conditions.

So healing is about working with the body’s innate capacity to heal. It takes lifestyle changes and effort, but if it gives you your life back, it’s well worth trying!

Jen x