Why we do the work... Reason #3: Health
“I no longer suffer with any of the 'incurable' health challenges I had - no paralysed face, no chronic fatigue, no endometriosis, no chronic cystitis, no diabetes, no thyroid issues. Instead, the healing work has me energised, vital, and healthy. To me, that makes this the most *vital* and essential work of all. And the least selfish - because now I'm able to help others walk the same path and heal themselves, and go onto helping others the same way.”
- Nicole Barton
"Why we do the work" - Reason #3 - HEALTH 🌹✨
One of the things that came up for me - and that I hear come up for many women feeling - in the call of soul to the 'deep work' of becoming a healer is the idea that it's 'non-essential' and 'self-indulgent". Both ideas which can (innocently) stop us fully choosing it.
And recently, I've been contemplating all the reasons the deep work of healing and becoming healers is actually *necessary* - (aka the very opposite) - and I've been sharing a mini series about why this work is actually *vital* in a society where magic can be mistrusted and deemed a 'nice to have' luxury. (See reasons #1 + #2 in an earlier post.)
Reason #3 - HEALTH
One of my biggest early reasons to choose into magical healing work was for my personal health.
I had arrived at a place of rock-bottom complete burn out and utter exhaustion, to the point I couldn't walk. I became deeply anxious, felt completely lost and disconnected, and was manifesting mysterious physical symptoms, especially womb-related ones (endometriosis).
I was chatting to a podcast guest (who had a similar journey) about this yesterday - about how mostly healers can be called into their magical gifts this way - via what I call 'initiation' - often health. And how often we will typically leave it until we are dragged down into soul, at our lowest point, feeling magic is the 'last option' - rather than consciously choosing into the journey. We often leave it until it finally feels 'essential' because there's no other option - having arriving at a place where we are so desperate we'll pay much try anything.
That was me. I was dragged down, into my initiation into a healer, by physical health. And I have been many times in my life, which led to my awakening. I've had chronic fatigue, womb pains, chronic cystitis, a paralysed face, digestive disorders, diabetes, thyroid problems - all sorts of physical symptoms.
And learning to *heal myself* was absolutely VITAL in helping me magically heal them all. Because there was no 'cure' in the mainstream medical healthcare system for me. I just had a collection of symptoms that appeared to them to be individual, unrelated and untreatable.
I was told I was 'incurable'. 💔
And had I believed the parts of me that feared this deep work was self-indulgent and non-essential, and handed over my power to the mainstream system of big pharma, I'd have stayed stuck there. (Just to be really clear on the nuance here, I'm also not saying that doctors don't do valuable, life saving emergency work, it's just that they are excellent at sticky plasters, rather than understanding true health).
The truth is, it has only been by me doing the work of soul and learning to magically self-heal that I've managed to be physically free of all of these previous challenges (and create a life of freedom, health, vitality, and magic that I love).
Ultimately, what I didn't see then was that I had deep underlying Archetypal patterns that were manifesting in my body - that were begging me to *listen* with the symptoms, the disconnection and the lostness.
I was being called into trusting a radical new paradigm of *true* healing.
And, as I learned the universal laws of true healing I came to see that, as Kent (a famous homeopath) says, "There is no cell or tissue so small that it does not keep its soul and life force in it.”
❤️🔥 Ultimately, my worldview shifted *radically* to see that physical imbalance is a direct result of any disconnect from our souls.
THIS is why I know this work is absolutely *vital*. Because:
✨ To be healthy, we have to heal all the places we have felt split from our souls. We have to do the deep work of soul reclamation - aka loving our fragmented, shamed, rejected, abandoned parts home.
Without that, we are just sticky plastering over things, and outsourcing our true healing power.
The deep work of real healing is what has relieved me of my physical ailments. It feels somewhat edgy to share this, because it's such a radical and controversial worldview.
And I know the truth of it in my bones.
Without this work - and a reliance on outsourcing to big pharma - I'd have been physically very unwell. 💔
My heart is full of the deepest gratitude for the potent combination of ancient wisdom bodies of Archetypal psychology, homeopathic medicine and energy healing - aka Archetypal Remedies - that now mean I'm physically healthy.
I no longer suffer with any of the 'incurable' health challenges I had - no paralysed face, no chronic fatigue, no endometriosis, no chronic cystitis, no diabetes, no thyroid issues. ✨
Instead, reclaiming my Feminine power and magic and full wild soul expression has me energised, vital, and healthy. 🌹
To me, that makes this the most *vital* and essential work of all. And the least selfish - because now I'm able to help others walk the same path and heal themselves, and go onto helping others the same way.
We're changing worldviews, my loves. One step at a time.
And what we're often asking, when we aren't sure if the deep work is essential - or if we think it's self-indulgent - is: "Is this magic really possible for me?"
I want you to know that's so welcome - *and* it's fear. Which makes sense, because it takes deep courage to open to a new paradigm or worldview that goes against what we've been culturally conditioned to believe. And I'm here to love you in it all, so you can tenderly step in - at your soul's pace.
There's no rush - *and* we can choose it before we get to that breaking point of rock bottom.
I wonder, what physical symptoms are nudging and calling your soul home?
All my love ♥️
