Steps to Clearing Emotional Pain

May 5, 2019

When you are in a place of healing and know that you have hit a wall, you have worked with a therapist and / or life coach to identify the causes of the issues you are experiencing, you have journaled, meditated and created a self care routine but you still feel like you are stuck … it is time for some emotional clearing.

Emotional Clearing is the practice of bringing awareness to our mental and emotional compulsions and reactions in order to “heal” them or integrate them. The end state of doing this work is Wholeness which is actually a step beyond enlightenment.

For these unresolved emotions to clear, they needs to pass through you. When these past emotions and feelings reemerge, they may lead to sadness, anger, fear, anxiety or depression. If you are feeling these emotions after or while going through an emotional clearing treatment, please rest assured that these feelings are completely normal. Do not try to avoid these feelings or shame yourself for feeling them. The most important thing to do during a healing process is to just let the emotions be. Just sit with the feelings and let them exist.

Please be thoughtful and patient with yourself, these emotions have been trapped and repressed in your subconscious for a long time. They most like stem from your childhood or early adolescence. We know that most people do not leave childhood unscathed. Even if you tell yourself you had a great childhood. There may have been something that affected you in a way where you repressed those emotions so you would not feel them. By pushing away feelings this could lead to emotions and negative feelings being trapped for many years. In extreme cases, these emotions developed into chronic physical symptoms without the bearer knowing it such as anxiety, depression, addiction, compulsion, chronic illness, etc.

It is important to remember we only have this one life and it is a gift. Even if things are hard and you feel you are in a constant emotional struggle, life is a precious gift and we only get one shot at it. We all have the opportunity to live a happy life with purpose. There is so much help and knowledge out there. Things are so different now then in the past. We have so many healing modalities right at our fingertips. Therefore I encourage you to start your healing today.

Emotional clearing is usually successful after a number of “sessions” or “treatments”. Most of these can be done in the privacy of your own home and others should be done by a certified “healing specialist”.

Start a yoga practice – yoga can be done at home or at a studio. it is a very versatile practice with so many benefits for our mind body and our spirit (there are specific emotional clearing poses that you should adopt into your yoga practice such as Goddess Pose, Pigeon Pose,Child’s Pose, Downward Dog, Malasana Squat, Legs up a wall or Waterfall Pose, etc.). If you would like to create your own yoga emotional clearing practice from home I encourage you to go to google and search articles about yoga for emotional clearing.
Meditation – clearing the mind is just as important as clearing the body. Its important to let go of old data that has lived inside your mind and has misguided you in the wrong direction. Its time to let go of any old thoughts and feelings, especially negative ones and replace them with good and positive thoughts. This can be done in any quiet space in your home. Designate a sacred space where you spend time with yourself.
Energy healing massage and / IET or Reiki – it works. This is where you need a licenses healer. I encourage you to research healers in your area.
Change your self talk and perspective immediately – this takes a good amount of time because you are basically reprogramming how you think act and speak about yourself. You have spent a lifetime thinking and acting a specific way and now I am asking you to completely change that. This can be done, but it takes time, commitment and dedication to the outcome.

The outcome once you put this practice into place is overwhelming in a good way. The results can be mind blowing. I can say this with pure confidence because I speak from experience. I put this practice into place and it virtually changed every aspect of my life. I once used to walk around with a pit in my stomach (total anxiety), a sleeping disorder, a basic negative outlook on life in general, with shallow friendships, bad/toxic/dangerous relationships with men and a very low sense of self worth.

Today, I am thrilled to say with a mixture of therapy, life coaching, spiritual coaching, yoga, meditation, a HUGE dose of self love and self care and true emotional clearing – I am the best person I can possibly be and each drive I thrive to be that much better. I am happy, calm, I no longer have that pit in my stomach. My friendships are deeper, my love relationship is amazing, my general outlook on life is extremely positive and I LOVE MYSELF!!

I continue to do a self care routine every single day and I treat myself the way I expect others to treat me. I do not allow negativity or drama in my sacred space and I have high expectations of those in my life. Yes, the occasional trigger happens, but I have the tools to work through the feelings and move forward.

There is hope, I promise and I am here to help you if you decide you are ready to take the next step.

Emotional Clearing is a necessary and critical last step to complete healing.

I hope this is helpful to you!

-A

What I wish I always knew

Sep 24, 2018

When you are broken, let it motivate you to become who you really are meant to be.

Whatever that is. Whoever that is.

Don’t let that experience go to waste. Embrace it. Feel it. Own it. Despise it. Then love it. Respect it.

It teaches you something.

Be YOU!

Whatever that is. Whoever that is.

It is important that you learn the lesson or it will repeat and beat you up ten fold next time.

Look at yourself in the mirror, write yourself a love note, meditate and thank God for creating you.

Because there is only one you and you are AMAZING!
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Everything is a moment

Sep 8, 2018

Nothing is better or worse than this moment because this moment is the only one that truly exists.

As is noted and quoted frequently, “the past is gone and the future has not yet happened” – therefore the only true moment we have is right now, this moment, this second, this experience. Nothing else matters.

So with this knowledge, I empower you to ask yourself –

what is your action?

Are you going to keep living in the past? Are you hoping to bring a certain moment back so you can relive that same experience? or are you desperately hoping for a “re-do” so you can take the knowledge you have been given and with that you can handle a situation differently. (Ahhh wouldn’t that be nice?!)

Are you going to keep trying to control the future by predicting or guiding the outcome in your favor?

OR….

Are you going to focus on experiencing the NOW..not yesterday, last week, tomorrow, 3 weeks from now, next Christmas…you get my point!

Planning ahead for your future is fine, and sometimes necessary but you must leave room for the changes or bumps in the road that may change the course of your Journey.

Don’t get me wrong, you can “plan” for something as if it may happen, but you simply cannot predict or control the outcome and guarantee that it will.

Example:

Your child is born –

In your eyes he is brilliant, a leader, he is going to do great things.

So you plan his future, save for college, as he grows and develops you start putting YOUR ideas about his future into his head and into action about what he SHOULD do with his life.

Well, eventually your child grows up and he becomes his own person with his own purpose, his own likes and passions (or not) and unfortunately they don’t match your dreams and goals that you have for him.

So you become disappointed and frustrated because your child has not followed the path that you have created for him.

Ultimately this brings up feelings for you – rejection, failure, and fear for his future.

This happens because you didn’t leave room for change, you didn’t understand that your child, although he is your flesh and blood, he is not an extension of you. He has his own Journey to follow that may or may not be aligned with your vision for his life.

So the one thing we have to realize is, we have no control over anything. Life is constantly changing and evolving around us.

Truthfully, I am grateful for this!

Can you imagine a life that didn’t change? What would we learn? How would we grow?

It is experiences, good and bad that shape us and make us into who we are (good and bad). We are never the same person – unless we stop growing.

Have you ever told a story from a long time ago. A story of struggle, a time you weren’t sure you were going to make it, but of course you did, and it made you so much stronger? You tell that story today with so much pride and even a little laughter at the situation thinking “wow, I can’t believe I made it through that!”

I have had some hard hard roads. Some of my experiences nearly broke me. However when I look back at those experiences I am truly grateful for them because they shaped me into the person I am today.

I am much more balanced from all these experiences and I am able to focus and appreciate each and every moment knowing that is all we really have.

This moment!

The Mirror

Aug 12, 2018

Did you know that the people you surround yourself with are reflections of certain parts of yourself (ironically they are usually the parts you don’t quite like).

These people are your “mirror”.

What does this mean?

Quite simply, we attract what we are (or ourselves). Ever notice something irritating or infuriating about someone…could be your child, friend or your spouse? Well, most likely you see something in them that you don’t like about yourself. They have a quality that you recognize and focus on that is something you wish to change about you.

Interesting concept huh?

There are those of us who are subconsciously reliving our youth traumas which contribute to our fears, anxieties, drama’s etc. We are attracting those people, by our own design, so that they reflect the same dysfunctions in us by bringing them to the surface. It’s like looking in the mirror and not liking what we see (emotionally).

As yourself these questions:

Do you attract emotionally unavailable partners that are non-committal in relationships?
Do you constantly focus on the relationships you can’t have without exploring why you are not attracting men/women who ARE available?
Are you attracted to married women/men?
Do you attract men/women who need “fixing”?
Are you a magnet for negative people and gossip?
Do you continuously have drama and dysfunction in your life?

If any of these scenario’s sounds familiar you need to explore deeply and ask yourself:

Am I emotionally available and able to commit to a healthy relationship?
Are there parts of me that need fixing that I am avoiding (old wounds) which is why I focus on him/her vs. myself?
Am I subconsciously working through childhood trauma (i.e. abandonment) by chasing unavailable partners?
Am I trying to protect myself therefor I attract which that which I cannot have?
Am I part of the problem?
Do I attract drama because of my own negativity? (drama can’t live unless you feed it)

Simply put, if you want to attract healthy people into your life. If you desire healthy friendships and relationships (i.e. lovers, family, co-workers, etc.) then you yourself need to be healthy.

Remember people will treat you how you allow them to. This is usually a direct reflection of how you feel about and treat yourself. When you value yourself and love yourself there is no way you would let someone treat you bad or disrespect you.

If you take the time to work on yourself (self love/care) not only will you feel AMAZING but you will attract healthier people into your life and have deeper more meaningful relationships.

Start today with focusing on yourself..look in your own mirror and decide what part of you is attracting toxic people.

Remember, people will always show you who they are – believe them the first time.

Namaste

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– be what you wish to attract –

Aug 4, 2018

Today is my mental – day one – in manifesting my most precious desire (notice I didn’t say..need) – a healthy, supportive and loving relationship.

For so long, like ever, I have attracted and engaged in very unhealthy relationships and yes by now we all know why…I had not healed my childhood wounds and I was completely re-enacting my childhood trauma (the horrible relationship with my father – yep “daddy issues”) by choosing these completely unavailable and unhealthy men to play the part so I could continuously try to heal my inner child stuff.

Well that tactic failed and might I say miserably so after this last traumatic episode I chose to heal those wounds once and for all.

Thanks to EMDR and a number of other healing modalities I have made it over the bridge and feel like a totally and completely different person. In fact I know I am a different person because I hear that statement all the time.

It feels good to know that I am no longer living as that little wounded girl and I have come to peace with many things including forgiving myself for some really bad choices.

We all make mistakes, the goal is to learn from them and move on without repeating them.

Sometimes it takes something MASSIVE to happen that shakes us and spits us on out the sidewalk for us to finally get that things have to change. Thankfully there is always time for change, no matter how old you are.

So now that I am living in the calm, as I like to call it….I am feeling like that next step in life would be to have what I have NEVER experienced and that would be a healthy loving and supportive relationship with someone who is completely capable.

WHAT A CONCEPT HUH?

So it took a series of steps to get here. Starting with breaking away from the narcissist and removing any and all toxic & unhealthy people from my life. BRILLIANT DECISION!

Everything after that just fell into place.

So here is what I have learned:

Self love is for real and it’s awesome. This is the FIRST and most critical step to manifesting someone healthy and capable. If you want more info on this see my many self love posts in this blog.
Be whatever it is you want to manifest. You want someone healthy, you have to be healthy yourself, you want someone honest and loyal, be that. You want someone interested in fitness…workout and take care of yourself. You want someone who is emotionally available..you have to BE emotionally available and capable of intimacy. It’s THAT FREAKIN SIMPLE.
Do not settle. Period.
Make room for him/her. Do not keep yourself so busy (one version of void filling) that you don’t have time for someone to come into your life.
Be clear on the type of person you wish to share your life with. After self love this is the most critical. You don’t have to be too specific but know what you want in a person. This is key in manifesting the right person.
Be patient and trust in the process. The Universe is always listening. Sometimes we confuse her. If one moment we are longing for love and the next minute we keep ourselves so busy we close ourselves off…she won’t know what to make of it. Be clear.
Know that what you get isn’t always what you envision but trust the Universe knows what is right for you. Sometimes it can come in a different package than we had constructed in our minds. That is OK.
Enjoy your life. You do not have to scour tinder and match to find your partner. Sometimes you can just be doing something you love and they will walk into your world. Embrace it.

Remember, being single and happy is better than being in a relationship and being miserable. I learned this the hard way.

If your goal is to manifest someone wonderful, I encourage you to take these steps.

Good luck and enjoy!

You may be the emotionally unavailable one, here’s why!

Jul 28, 2018

We have all dated that person, the one that is never quite ready for a commitment (with you). They drive you to the brink of insanity and then pull you back with incredible passion that you have never experienced before. They bring out a side to you that you didn’t know you had in you. They are truly magical.

They keep you on your toes, as you wait with baited breath for every text, phone call and an eventual date. Every date is magical…leaving you wanting more and more and when the date is over, its drama city…tears, anxiety, sadness, confusion, wondering when and if you are going to see them again.

They aren’t ready to give themselves up to you, however they have no problem spending all their time with you, having sex with you, sleeping over, eating your food, going on vacation with you, and everything else couples do…without the commitment and -oh yeah – no monogamy. They are using you. Whether its for money, sex, validation, attention, a place to crash, someone to fill their voids, someone who keeps them from being alone (with themselves), a person to chill with until someone better comes along. Whatever it is they need you are giving it to them and therefore they are using you.

Yet we believe in our souls that if we morph into exactly what they want you us to be, they will love us. So we spend all our energy on making them happy, trying to make them love us (and they don’t), chasing them when they run and convincing them how amazing we are (they see it, they just don’t care). Until one day you wake up and grasp that years have gone by and you realize that no matter what you do…they will not love you, they do not want you or what you want (or say you want), and yes, they have been using you.

So…you finally pull away and say you can’t do this anymore, that there is nothing left of your self esteem and you are tired of giving so much of yourself and receiving nothing in return….oh boy, look out….they WILL come back in full force (and this is not a good thing). They will promise you the world…the stars…their soul…as long as you don’t leave them. They love you, they will start respecting you more, they will spend more time with you, they realize how much they don’t want to live without you. Amazing huh? Wow, this is everything you ever wanted to hear – you just wanted him to just realize how amazing you are and to see your value, to want you the way you want them.

You are ecstatic, and without any thought process you immediately take them back – with no boundaries in place, no making them prove themselves, no slow ease back into it..just as quickly as he came back after you, you go running back.

Ugh…MISTAKE!

Surprise, nothing has changed. They were good for a little while, they showed you a little more attention, but ultimately they didn’t change. Why? Because people don’t change unless they want to and they can’t without doing the work. They came running back to you because they just didn’t want to lose their security blanket (yes that is what you were). You see, they fear abandonment as well. So as much as they don’t want to commit to you, they don’t want to lose you either. Its really all just a sad and lonely cycle of avoiding abandonment.

However, the good news is that eventually the cycle does end (if you are lucky) – leaving you exhausted, with them moving on to another person who is just like you (a door mat) – leaving you in a heap on the floor. You cry, wish for another day with them, begging God for them to love you, because if they did your life would be complete. They are what makes life magical and worth living.

WRONG! WRONG! WRONG!

Newsflash!!

They are your mirror, its that simple. You have played the emotional unavailability dance and its time for the music to stop. Its time to figure out why you too are emotionally unavailable and more vested in chasing men who don’t want you vs. finding out why you don’t really want them either.

Thankfully it is possible to end this cycle forever, abandon this dance and move towards a healthy and balanced relationship with an emotionally available person but ONLY when YOU become emotionally available yourself.

My dear this isn’t just about them…this is about you too.

So here are some ways to start becoming emotionally available and start healing so you can seek and find a fabulous and stable relationship with someone who is available to you.

Figure out your biggest fears! What is holding you back? – whether its fear of getting hurt, abandonment (most likely), being vulnerable, fear of engulfment, giving up your own space, whatever it is…identify it.
Once you have identified it, write about it in your journal! – where did this fear come from? childhood? when did you first notice this fear? write down every detail in your journal. once its identified and “out there” its much easier to work towards a resolution.
Finding a resolution – depending on what your fears and issues are you may need to seek a therapist, counselor or life coach to work towards resolving these issues.
Let go of people who have hurt you in the past – understand that getting hurt is a part of life – painful experiences are what teach us our biggest lessons so we can grow and learn to heal those parts of us that are holding on. let them go and yes, forgive.
Think about your favorite people and write in your journal what you like about each and every one of them – after you have done this, send each of them a text and let them know you are grateful for their presence in your life.
Next, write down your favorite things about you – for some people this will be an easy exercise and for others this will be very difficult. this exercise can help you identify how you view yourself – and as you know, how you see yourself is how others see you as well. what you put out into the Universe is what is coming back to you – full circle.
Let go of your emotional addictions (I call them void fillers) – the over eating, the smoking, too much drinking, drugs, social media, sex, porn etc. these are not helping you in any way. learn to sit with your feelings, with yourself and be comfortable with them. this takes lots of practice, its uncomfortable and surely there will be a lot of tears and moments where you want to give up. don’t. learning to sit with your feelings is the biggest step to healing and best way to avoid starting a new cycle of emotional unavailability in another person – just to avoid feeling.
Give your time, money, love and support to others who need it – there are so many people out there who are struggling. it feels good to help people, in any way, whether its to volunteer, donate money or household items. this is a great way to show gratitude for what you do have by giving to others that don’t have anything.
Find yourself – you spent countless hours, months and even years catering to someone who didn’t see your value (this is because you don’t see your value). spend less time trying to find a man or woman to fill your void and validate you and more time figuring out who you are, what you want from life, and what makes you happy. when you do this, you will figure out what type of person you should have in your life and no longer will you accept someone who is not right for you, let alone chase them to make them see how great you are. you won’t need that.
Love yourself – after you figure out who you are, treat yourself well. treat yourself and love yourself the way you want to be treated and loved. the saying really is true, how can someone love you and respect you if you don’t respect yourself. they can’t and they won’t. once you start loving yourself, it becomes a wonderful and healthy addiction. you won’t settle for less. I promise.

Emotionally unavailability is an invisible shield meant to protect us from hurt. The sad part is, it doesn’t protect us at all, it makes things worse.

Remove that invisible shield and start working on yourself today. If you would like to work with a coach to help you on this new Journey of emotional availability, contact us today.

-A

The journey begins….

Jul 19, 2018

And so it begins….the transformation of my once broken soul to a strong, confident, happy and balanced person.

I was once a very anxious, scared little girl living inside a grown woman’s body. I cared so much about what others thought of me, I was terrified of making decisions and although I appeared extremely confident on the outside, my insides would scream at me that I was not good enough.

I still feel that way at times. Insecure and sad, abandoned and scared. The difference now is that I honor those feelings instead of trying to push them away.

Navigating through childhood “stuff”, loss of significant people in your life, loss of what you perceived as love, recognizing and dealing with bad choices and their consequences are all very heavy burdens to handle. Not all of us are equipped with the tools to deal with most of these things. These are the things that can destroy us internally.

However, through my own Phoenix Process – I have learned that if you feel your feelings and don’t try to push them away you will work through them much faster and most of the time they will pass (if you let them). Holding on to them can feel like you are protecting yourself, like a shield, but the reality is you are only hurting yourself and prolonging your healing.

If you do everything in your power to avoid feeling your feelings…by drinking, over planning your time, drugs, sex, pornography, clinging to relationships..you are prolonging the entire process of healing and actually making things worse.

It takes time to process feelings and avoiding them doesn’t make them go away, unfortunately they get stored in our subconscious and eventually those thoughts and feelings you are trying to avoid come seeping out….through anxiety, depression, nightmares, anger, however your body wants to process them. There is NO escaping these thoughts and feelings no matter how much you drink, eat, have sex, etc. They will always be there.

So my advice is to truly feel your feelings….cry until there are no more tears left…and please know that at some point this period of sadness/anxiety will pass and you will feel so much better as you catapult to the next stage of healing.

It is also important to create new good memories which will ultimately replace the older ones that are stuck in your mind. We tend to cling to what feels good and forget what hurt us in the past. I assume this is for survival. However it is not healthy to hang on to the past and focus only on what felt good, just as its not healthy to ruminate about what hurt you. There comes a point in time, once we have let our feelings seep in, that we have to let go and move on from the past (good and bad) and focus on what is in front of us.

We truly are the director of our own lives and we do have the ability to construct our lives exactly how we want them to be. With a little time and effort and some real belief in yourself and the Universe, you can live the life you want…within reason. Set your expectations to a realistic measure and start making better choices that involve self care and self love. Remove toxic people from your life, think before you act, do not engage in self fulfilling prophecy’s and focus on how you would like to feel. Everything is about feelings and how things make us feel. Love is a feeling, sadness is a feeling, happiness is a feeling. Construct your life in a way that makes you feel good.

But also understand that you will not be happy every single day of your life. There will be days you question yourself, your friends, your lover and your choices. That is ok. How in the world would we be able to recognize things are good if there was no “bad”. We wouldn’t. The bad times are what help us appreciate all the good we have.

Write down (right now) about 10 things in your life that you are grateful for and smile as you write them. Say each thing out loud and say thank you like 2 or 3 times with true gratitude.

I am personally grateful for so many things…my beautiful children, my peaceful and zen home, yoga, Luke (my beautiful and smart Golden), my friendships, peace, food and water, my career and financial stability, my gardens, the earth/nature, travel, amazing coffee. The list really and truly is endless.

Everyone can list their lack, the things they don’t have, the things they want, the things they miss, but that just creates more lack. Focusing on what you do have will help you attract more and more wonderful things, even if they aren’t exactly what you want. The Universe has an incredible way of providing us what we need.

As a survivor of abandonment and trauma I can tell you that the mind is a very powerful thing and it is actually what gets us into trouble 99% of the time.

We literally create most of our own issues by:

focusing on the past and not whats happening in front of us
ruminating – allowing thoughts to run rapid in our minds
not appreciating the things we have and always creating a feeling of lack
not letting go of anger
not dealing with our issues and letting them fester inside us
loving people that are wrong for us and treat us poorly
not valuing ourselves and putting ourselves first
not practicing self love and care
allowing others to define our worth
giving away our power

We do not have to do this, we can gain control of our thoughts (if not fully, partially) and re-direct them back to a positive and happy thought process. It takes practice and consistency but through yoga, meditation, mindfulness, earthing and grounding and many other wonderful techniques it can be done.

I am finally at a place where I can fully let go of my negative thoughts just by using my tools that I have learned the past two years.

Being able to do this has totally changed my life and it can change yours.

Feel your feelings, let them in and let them go…