How To Holistically Heal...Is It My Fault I'm Sick?

And Some Other Things To Consider

1. HEALING: It’s Not Your Fault

(things that may be a barrier to your healing)

2. REVERENCE: Having An Advocate

(reverence is the deep respect & attention to the things that truly impact healing)

3. EXPLORING: Is It Time To Thaw Out?

(exploring is the journey into the deeper work, meeting the parts, wounds, and survival strategies that keep us small, stuck, and suffering with persistent symptoms & feelings)

1. HEALING: It’s Not Your Fault

I am knee-deep into writing my book, considering all the things that contribute to why we don’t heal and how to heal.

These two thoughts are always top of mind when I’m with a patient and when I’m without. These thoughts are influenced by what I see and experience with patients in a clinical setting, but also by what I read and listen to. And sometimes, they are just thoughts that arise, and I simply follow the thread to see where they unfold.

I am in the well—deep and mysterious and murky, or shallow and clear and obvious—depending on how much time I have to sit in it or how much time my thoughts run or rain into the well and fill it with the things that call to be tended to and considered.

So, these are a few of my thoughts of late. Small thoughts that hopefully land somewhere for you to help guide you on your health & healing journey.

Is it my fault I’m sick?

Is illness a failure—a sign that we lack time, money, belief, energy, or resources?
Or is it karma, sin, genetics, toxicity?
Is it the foods we eat, the air we breathe, the products we use?
Whether we rest and sleep well?
Whether we exercise and play?

There are countless contributing factors.
And no, it’s not all your fault.

You’re an individual in an environment with other individuals,
In a family and friendship circle,
In a home and workplace,
In neighborhoods and community,
In a suburb and city,
In a country and planet.