Healing From The Inside Out | Health + Healing Mindset

In today’s world, we’re taught to treat every symptom with a supplement or prescription. The first question we ask when someone’s unwell is: Did you take something? But what if the real healing lies not in what you take — but in what you feel?

This episode invites you to look at your health through a new lens – one that honours your emotions, trusts your body and sees physical symptoms as sacred messages. We’re talking deep self-awareness, intuitive healing and reconnecting with the wisdom that lives inside you.

This episode is perfect for anyone exploring emotional health, somatic healing or a more intuitive approach to wellness.

Please note: this episode is not here to offer specific medical advice and is merely another perspective on both health and a healing mindset.

Transcript

Hello and welcome to another episode of the Wild Free Well podcast. My name is Alaysia and today I'm here to talk to you a little bit about health. I really want to open up a conversation around the idea of health and I guess healing and what I mean by healing is not in like the spiritual sense necessarily although maybe because we might get to that in a second but it's more like healing like I mean literally the healing of physical symptoms of health, Physical health problems and so on and so forth. So as always I'm going to start off with a little story. So while I was in Canada, Actually before, During and after I was a little bit under the weather. So I had you know a cold slash allergies slash honestly I don't know really what the hell was going on. There was a little bit of everything and while I was in Canada you know I was just kind of saying you know we're just feeling a little bit under the weather and my aunt turns to me and she says well did you take something and that just like pinged in my head and it's like why in Western society in Western culture is that the first question that we ask? Why is that our first choice when someone mentions that they're ill and I'm not saying that I don't do it too. I definitely do and I definitely have but it's something that's so fascinating to me like why is our first solution in the West when we're not feeling well to take a pill or to introduce some kind of like external solution to what is in theory an internal problem. So before we go any further I am going to say not a doctor, Not a naturopath, Not a healer like I do not self-identify in any of these ways. I am not educated in medicine. I am only sharing a belief about how I approach health and please take everything that I say with a grain of salt. Please filter absolutely everything that I say to you through your own belief system. Take what resonates and leave the rest okay. What we are trying to do here is have a conversation around the mindset of health and the mindset of healing okay. That's it. This is not meant to be construed as advice or like any kind of like me saying you should do this this way or like this is the right way, This is just a way, This is my way and that's pretty much it okay. So I found this conversation so interesting because I mean it's hilarious because it lasted about 10 seconds like I just basically said no I didn't take anything and then like that was it. But it really sparked something in me because it got me questioning why it is that our default is to kind of search for an external answer to an internal problem and honestly we can take this conversation so much farther. There are so many ways in which we do this even in the personal development world when we're having like a personal issue, When we're having like a big emotion instead of maybe sitting with that emotion and being present with it we're like okay let me listen to something, Let me read this book by this guru or this famous person or this influencer or whatever who has like some information about this topic and I'm not saying that that's not helpful but it is really interesting that even that from an emotional perspective can be our go-to so it can kind of be our default to go like I'm having this big emotion, I'm having this big whatever, I'm going through this situation, I'm gonna listen to this, Read this, Do this of just like being with whatever it is that is going on. So I would like to change the default. I think that that's like the underlying mission of this podcast is always to encourage people to look at things differently, To offer another perspective and just kind of be like hey have you thought about doing it this way? This is another option because I don't believe in taking medication. That does not mean that I do not believe in the power of medication or that I do not believe in western medicine. What ends up happening when people have alternative views of health and I would count myself as somebody who has relatively alternative views about health but what tends to happen is it's like that pendulum and we swing from like western medicine, Pills, Surgery, Doctors and this kind of thing and we tend to go to the other side of the pendulum where we're like none of these things and only alternative medicine and my happy medium lies somewhere in the middle, Okay? I try not to take medicine unless I'm in a position where I really cannot do anything else. Like for example, If I get really, I get really bad headaches in general and I get them especially when I'm not taking care of myself. This is another conversation for another episode of the podcast but in those moments where I am not taking care of myself and we could dive into a million reasons about why that is but in those moments if I need to I will take something for my head because my headaches can become debilitating. If I have a really bad cold and my nose is stuffed up you best be believing that I'm going to be taking some Vicks because that Vicks nasal spray which is like I'm positive one of the worst things that you could possibly ingest into your body to be honest with you for me is a lifesaver because I know that for me the secret to healing is sleep. The more you sleep, The more you rest then the sooner you will get better. If I can't breathe I am not going to sleep well, It's going to delay my healing and so in that situation for me western medicine is the correct answer but I don't rush to these solutions. I try my best to breathe on my own, I try my best to clear my nasal passages in other ways, I try my best to relax and let my headaches pass naturally and if they don't then I take something. So there is no shade with western medicine but it's interesting that medication has become our default and it's become our default in a lot of different areas and for a lot of different situations and my concern is that it's not actually dealing with the root problem. So if I could wave a magic wand and if I were the queen of everything and I could make the situation exactly what I would like it to be, My new paradigm and the new default that we would be living would be this. When you tell somebody that you're not feeling well, Their answer to you or their question to you immediately thereafter is well have you analyzed the emotional root of this physical problem? Because that's where I believe the solution truly lies. I always tell people I don't have physical problems, I have mental ones which is not necessarily a better thing but usually there is some kind of emotional root to whatever physical symptom we're experiencing and so when I feel for I mean whatever that might be like so for example let's talk about my headaches for example. So when I have a headache, Why do I have a headache? I have a headache because I have amassed tension over time in my shoulders and my neck. Okay, That's not always the case but it is often the case. Why have I amassed tension? Because I have been feeling stressed, Anxious, Overwhelmed, Whatever that might be and like why have I been feeling those things? Well because I've potentially putting too much pressure on myself or I'm not like moving through life in flow or I'm resisting something and it's creating stress and tension and then that stress and tension is creating tension, Physical tension and then from there it is creating the physical result of a headache. Okay, So when I was in Canada before, During and after actually and I was feeling a little bit under the weather, I don't feel like there's like a huge question around this. I know exactly why I was feeling under the weather. One, There's a little bit of the changing of the seasons we could say, Sure, But the main reason was because I was in a, I would say, Energetic deficit. So I was feeling run down. It's not that I was, That I caught a cold necessarily because of like I was outside or whatever it was. Although in part, Before I left for Canada when I was in Italy, I definitely did actually catch a cold because I was outside but while I was in Canada, It was like, You know, I'm around people all the time. I'm like moving constantly. We're going from house to house and family member to family member and we're always surrounded by people and this is not me living in alignment with what I need energetically. And for the time that I was there, Which was only three weeks and I haven't been home in three years, That was okay. Like I knew that I was making that decision as per my previous podcast about this trip. So there's no shade on that. Like I made a decision and that decision led to me feeling run down and that feeling of being run down led to me getting sick. Like that's, That's what it is. It's normal. It's, And to me that's like the emotional root of it though. So like I was getting sick because I was not honoring my emotional needs in that moment. What I needed was maybe to relax. What I needed was time alone. What I needed was time to focus on myself. But I knew that in the context of where I was, That wasn't going to happen. Right? One of the biggest resources for this for me is Louise Hay's book, You Can Heal Your Life. That to me is, Should be mandatory reading for all humans going through like, You know, The school of life. Like if you're on planet earth, You should probably read this book. Better yet, You should listen to the audio book because it is quite literally like having a conversation with your grandmother and it's just about the best thing that will ever happen to you. But one of my favorite things about this book, Actually it's not, Everything about this book is incredible. Uh, But one of the resources that it offers is emotional roots to physical problems. And I will tell you that looking up family member illnesses and my own over the years, It has absolutely blown me away with how accurate it is. So, And I'm talking about everything from like minor ailments to like major diseases like cancer and things like chronic disease, Like asthma, Which I have. Um, So like all of these things, Actually I had, I don't really have asthma or I have like a very peculiar form of asthma, But whatever. Um, But all of these things, When I read what it says, It's just so, So fascinating. Um, How it breaks things down. Like even for example, Something simple like having glasses, Which you know, We, We consider it to be normal. We consider having glasses normal. I've had glasses since I was nine years old. And, Um, One of the things that Louise Hay says is that when people have problems with their eyesight, It's cause there was something that was happening in their life that they didn't want to see. So we can take all of this with a grain of salt and we can call it BS and we can say whatever, That's fine. I'm going to tell a story now. So when I was nine years old at around that time, My parents were having marital problems and they actually ended up splitting up when I was 10. And so like, It's just all so interesting that I got glasses when I was nine, Which would have been right around this period where, You know, Things were kind of bubbling to the surface in the relationship of my parents, Which was probably as a nine year old, Something that I didn't really want to see. So this doesn't have to be true for you. This doesn't have to like be the, The answer. And like, Again, I'm not saying anything against Western medicine. I have had surgeries. There are things I really appreciate about Western medicine, But I do think that we need to be having a broader conversation as with all things. Like this whole podcast is about this idea of having another conversation, A different conversation or a conversation from a different perspective. And I cannot remove the truth for me in my lived experience of this discussion of the emotional root of physical problems. Whenever I look up the ailments for myself or for other people, I am blown away by how true that is. And this podcast is an invitation to begin welcoming another way of viewing this. So to begin welcoming another, Another possibility. So if that's true, We can go about healing a physical problem in a completely different way. And there are so many modalities to this. Like one of my girlfriends practices, Uh, Germanic new medicine. And we can also talk about kinesiology. There's homeopathy, There's naturopathy, There's so many different ways. And I'm not recommending one above the other because I haven't tried them all. So I really don't know what the right answer is, But I do know that this conversation, Which is the root of it, This willingness to see it from seeing illnesses or ailments from another perspective has changed things for me. It has also made things a lot lighter because when I look at them from the root of it being an emotional problem, It's not this like incurable, This incurable thing, Right? It becomes something that to a certain degree becomes more manageable because we're not talking about something that is like out of our control. Like, You know, I'm having a physical pain and I can't do anything about that pain. Well, If I know that the root of that pain is something emotional and I can do the work to heal the emotional root of that thing, Then all of a sudden we're having another conversation, Right? Because there is something that we can do on our own with a coach, With a therapist to address the emotional root of these physical problems. Now let's dive into some examples. So, Um, I'm going to ask you to bear with me because I've actually got the book open and I'm going to be looking through it in real time. But I'm only going to be sharing the things that were coming up for me, Okay? So we're not going to be talking. There is no, Um, Breaking, You know, People's trust. But anyways, Anxiety, Something that I've talked about repeatedly on the podcast and something that I'm working actively to disassociate with, Let's say. And I think that I've gotten to a really good point actually of that. It just feels like it's not necessarily true anymore. So one of the, What it says for the reason behind anxiety is not trusting the flow and the process of life. And so the solution there being, Um, In Louise Hay's book, She provides affirmations. And so we would say, I love and approve of myself and I trust the process of life. I am safe. The idea being here, Self-acceptance and trust, Right? Which is the antidote of not trusting the flow and process of life. So quite normal. Um, 10, A while back I had, Um, Some problems with my back. And one of the things that she says is that the back represents the support of life. So feeling like life supports you and, And affirming that. And then she also breaks it down to if you have back problems with your lower middle or upper back. And I had problems with my lower back. And this is also really interesting. I think for the lower back, It says fear of money, Lack of financial support. And again, The affirmation is I trust the process of life. All I need is always taken care of and I am safe. And I think it's really interesting because I've never had persistent back problems. I've only had back problems that kind of come and go. And so you could also then look at this as a kind of, Um, Like signifier, Like, Oh, Hey, There's that like money problem. Again, There's that lack sense again, There's this kind of problem rearing its head again. And I can begin to do the work associated with healing that emotional problem to ease the physical pain. I can't tell you how much I love this stuff. Um, Just cannot get enough of it. So, Um, I problems, Uh, One of the things that it says here is like, Um, Having like an astigmatism, Which I have, It is I trouble, Which is fear of really seeing the self. So I am now willing to see my own beauty and a magnificence being the solution. And I just, I can't tell you how much I love. Um, I love these things. Like I just can't get enough of this. It, To me, It just, It just feels so true. It even talks about things like fat. It talks about fainting, Anything to do with fatigue. Woo. This would be a good one. So for fatigue, It says resistance and boredom. There's a lack of love for what one does. And the solution is I am enthusiastic about life and filled with energy and enthusiasm. And which is just, Yeah. I mean, So this is all so juicy and I'm going to stop reading them here, But I do really recommend that people take a look at this book. I I've treated it as mandatory reading for pretty much all of my clients. Like I recommend it so often in the work that I do, Because so much of the work that I do is around mindset. And so much of mindset work is really about accepting and loving the self. And this book, It would be the Bible on that. I really do believe that there is no better book that, About that particular topic about loving and accepting the self. But I also want to take this conversation one step further. So a curious byproduct of this way of viewing physical ailments is that my physical ailments do not last very long. I put no store in physical ailments in general. And I'm going to say like, Obviously the eye problems, I still wear glasses. The anxiety, I am healing, But I'm healing in another way. But when I talk about like physical ailments, For example, Sometimes my lower back hurts, As I mentioned before, Or sometimes my knees hurt or sometimes my ankle will hurt. But I don't put any stock in that. I do not pay attention to the pain. I do not like feed it or fuel it in any way, Because I know that if there is a physical flare up of some kind, It is actually just the body communicating an emotional problem to me. And so I'm never like stuck in that place. And so the pain for me does not tend to persist. This is something I'm really trying to get my partner on board with, Because he has a very different way of dealing with these things. When I do have a persistent problem, Though, I'm still doing the same work. Like even if the pain persists, I'm still looking at what the emotional root of this is, And then kind of going from there. So it's all about opening yourself up to another conversation and another perspective and being willing to see the problem from another point of view, Essentially. And just again, Not really giving much store to the physical manifestation of it. Because the more we focus on that, The more we feed that thing with our energy and our attention, The more it kind of expands and the more it solidifies in our reality. And I think that's something that this view of health and healing has really helped me to do. Ooh, Thunder. How curious. Just during this time. But anyways, One of the things that this has helped me to do has been to just not put a lot of stock again in physical symptoms and just approach any physical symptoms with a massive amount of curiosity. So I'm really coming at it like, Well, Isn't that interesting? Which is something that we talk about on the podcast too. Like we do that work with the emotional problems, But we can also do it with the physical ones as well. So yes. So just to kind of reiterate, This conversation is really about shifting the discussion from, Did you take something for this physical problem to have you done the emotional healing or the emotional deep diving to kind of understand what the real root of the problem is, Of the physical problem is, I should say. And just really beginning to like shift our perspective or shift our mindset on health and healing, Where we are, I don't want to say in control of our body because I don't love the word control. I just think it has a negative connotation to it in and of itself, But where we are really present with ourselves, Really present with our lived experience, Really present with our bodies. And so we're aware of what is happening to us because we're in that space. Like we're living with it. We're not disassociating. We're not, We're not overly associating either because that's any kind of extreme is always going to be a kind of a recipe for disaster. Let's say we're not like on extreme positivity. We're not on extreme negativity. We're like somewhere in the middle, Maybe leaning a little bit more towards positivity. We're not completely disassociated or completely detached and we're not completely associated or completely attached either. We're like somewhere in the middle again, Trying to find that happy balance as if balance actually existed. I'm not sure that it does, But that's kind of what we're striving for. That's kind of what we're working for to working towards. Sorry. And I think that our body is capable of finding homeostasis on its own without us getting too involved in all honesty. So it's really about just kind of, Again, Being present with what is coming up, Emotions, Physical symptoms, You know, Thoughts, Whatever that is, Just being present with it and just being the observer, The gentle, Loving, Kind observer of these things. So yes, I hope this episode finds you well on your healing journey and I hope that it inspires you to look at things from a different perspective or to deepen your understanding of this perspective if you're already living here or whatever. Just, You know, I hope that it just is exactly what you needed today, Basically. I'm so grateful that you're here, That you're listening and for your continued support. And if you'd like to get in touch with me, I do have a new group on Insight Timer and I would love to create just such a loving space. There are journal prompts, There are questions that you can dive into, You can ask for and reach out for support. So there's so much goodness happening there. So please give it a look. It's called the Wild Free Well Space, Again, On Insight Timer. If you have any questions, Comments, Critiques, Or concerns, Please feel free to reach out. You can do that also in the group. You can do that by leaving a review or subscribing or all that jazz. Not subscribing, Leaving a comment, Sorry. And if you loved this, You can subscribe as well and that would mean the world to me. And yeah, Just would love to connect with you in a deeper way and know that I'm always here and I'm always in your corner and I am cheering you on forevermore. Amen. And I cannot wait to see you on the next episode of the podcast. See you then. Ciao.