Releasing pain can be easier then you think There have been many times when I have been in physical pain…and I find it so interesting! Is this just a physical root cause? Is it a muscle, body system, organ or gland out of balance? Is there a specific chakra that needs healing? Is it an emotion that I was not able to let go of from years ago that is coming up to be healed? We are so complex as humans, that physical pain could have one cause or many. While I believe that eating a whole food plant-based diet and having trapped emotions quickly released through a few Emotion Code sessions can get ..read more

I was so incredibly pissed off. At the age of 20, I thought that being involved in a car accident that was, unfortunately, my fault was enough. I thought that I was never going to get into another one. I was wrong. I was driving home one early evening (after just having my car repaired from the previous accident a week ago), and as I was driving, I saw out of the corner of my eye two deer running alongside my car. In a split second, one jumped over the hood of my car…and then the other. The only words going through my head at that moment were “Oh shit!”. Luckily, there was no oncoming traffic ..read more

Read Nick Kidawski's answer to I've had a sharp pain in my upper back for a few weeks now. Should I see a doctor or are home remedies enough? on Quora The post Quora Q&A: I’ve had sharp pain in my upper back for a few weeks. Should I see a doctor or are home remedies enough? appeared first on Cultivate Wellness ..read more

The power of whole plant foods to heal your sense of self, digestion, and personal power In this third blog post on how to heal the chakras with whole plant foods, we are going to take a look at the solar plexus chakra. First, we looked at the root chakra, then we looked at the sacral chakra. What’s a chakra, you ask? It’s all explained right here. Your sense of self and personal power There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become. ~ Orison Swett Marden Your solar plexus chakra is located ..read more

Being whole and simultaneously part of a larger whole, we can change the world simply by changing ourselves. If I become a center of love and kindness in this moment, then in a perhaps small but hardly insignificant way, the world now has a nucleus of love and kindness it lacked the moment before. This benefits me and it benefits others. ~ John Kabat-Zinn This week for me (as I’m sure for most of you) has been very challenging due to this Corona Virus and the fear and uncertainty sweeping our communities, the government, the nation, and the entire world. Uncomfortable changes are happe ..read more

Are you building health or promoting inflammation? Did you know that many Western names for diseases are simply naming the location of the heat, swelling, redness, and pain? Yep. So as a few examples – bronchitis is the inflammation of the bronchioles, bursitis is inflammation of the bursa, sinusitis is inflammation of the sinuses, and tendonitis is inflammation of the tendons. Any “itis” that a medical doctor attaches to your diagnosis is inflammation happening in your body. Inflammation is not a bad thing (short-term it’s good), but when it goes on for too long that’s when y ..read more

Is your muscle tension really caused by “stress”? Often, physical pain functions to warn a person that there is still emotional work to be done. ~ Dr. Susanne Babbell In a 2012 study, approximately 25.3 million Americans (11.2%) suffer from chronic pain every day and 17.6% suffer from severe levels of pain. As some of you may know, I was a massage therapist for 9 years, and during that time I worked on a lot of people dealing with both acute and chronic pain. Here’s a familiar scenario of a new client that would come in with, let’s say acute upper shoulder pain: Me: “So, what ..read more