Hello, and welcome to Quantum Waves of Wellness. I’m your host, Dr. Paula Apro—Doctor of Natural Medicine, holistic health mentor, and your guide to unlocking the healing power within. This week I want to pick up where I left off in my last episode, after uncovering my childhood “wound of rejection.” As I mentioned in that episode, I did energetically release some of the emotional energy surrounding the traumatic experience of being threatened and frightened regarding my thumb sucking.
But since that last writing, I have taken more steps toward healing and made even more profound discoveries. I began working with a fellow Bioenergetic doctor who also happens to be a Naturopathic doctor and is very in tune with the mind-body connection.
I did a voice analysis and let her analyze the results. I wasn’t intending to discuss my “wound of rejection” and that whole “thumb-sucking” period of my life, but strangely it came up as relevant to the real reason I was seeing her.
I was trying to get to the root cause of my malnutrition and malabsorption issues. I’ve known for a very long time that I have trouble assimilating vitamins and nutrients, and I’m chronically mineral-depleted. Lately I’ve noticed that I’ve lost a few pounds and I’m having trouble gaining them back.
Now, I realize that this is not a problem that most women want to hear about. Who wants to listen to anybody complain that they can’t gain weight, right? So I was not planning to publicly share it. However, what this doctor uncovered was very interesting and worth sharing, I think.
The most striking thing that I shared with this doctor was the fact that I’m barely even hungry when I sit down for a meal, but as I begin eating and especially after I’m done, my hunger grows rather than shrinks. I seem to always be very hungry as soon as I’m finished eating. Now you don’t have to be a doctor to know that this just isn’t right!
I’ll be the first to admit that nutrition has never been my strong suit, and it wasn’t something that I learned in school. I needed to figure out what was going on with me, and I needed help doing it.
The voice analysis was a crucial tool in uncovering the many hidden imbalances that Western medicine wouldn’t even begin to piece together. In reviewing the overall summary of my imbalances, nutritional and mineral deficiencies, along with food insensitivities, and weakened detox pathways came up at the very top of the priority list, and the biggest culprit to all other imbalances. As always, the voice analysis hit the nail right on the head.
But in reality, I already knew all of this because I’ve been doing my own voice scans for years. This is where this doctor really helped me.
She started to explain that my “cells were in a state of starvation.” And believe me, this really got my attention because I spent the past 2 years working with and mentoring under an amazing MD turned bioenergetic doctor who constantly told me that my cellular energy was way too low.
Now this is NOT something that a practitioner of energy medicine wants to hear. After all, I jack myself up with energy every single day. But you see, all of the energy treatments that I’ve been doing were just pouring gas into a damaged tank. Yes, I’m getting enough energy to run my body, but I’m not addressing plugging the holes in the tank, nor figuring out why the holes were there to begin with.
OK, getting back to what this doctor told me. She said that my cells were in this state of starvation, and when I eat, my cells wake up from their starving state and suddenly can’t get enough because they are finally being nourished. Then she said something that I really needed to digest.
She said that my cells have learned that it’s not OK to take what I want when I want it, and for some reason, I have learned to go without and not satisfy my needs, probably due to some sort of deep-seated guilt and shame.
When she said this, how could I NOT think back to the discovery I made just a few days prior regarding my core wound of rejection and that whole “I’m not a good person for sucking my thumb and I must stop, otherwise I’ll get in trouble and nobody will love me” trauma.
When I shared my story with the doctor, she felt that this was critical information to uncover on my healing journey. When I was a small child, my thumb sucking was an outward sign that I needed comforting, but instead of comforting, I got threats and an ultimatum to stop. I was made to feel guilt and shame for needing comfort. Yikes, what a mess that has caused for my entire lifetime.
So now I must retrain my cells to know that it’s OK to take what I need whenever I need it, and to not feel guilty for it. She told me that I must treat my body as a sacred temple and give it so much care to reprogram the childhood program that accidentally got installed.
The doctor advised me to eat at least 6 times a day and to fully and slowly appreciate eat bite. She really drilled it into me that ‘nourishment‘ was what I needed most, not the calories, not the fat, not the protein, simply nourishment, and we all know that comes in many forms outside of simple food.
I feel like this was a profound step along my journey to wellness. Sometimes the answers are right under your nose, almost screaming at you, but you need a slight shift in perspective to really see them. Hmmmm, maybe that means you need a “quantum shift” in perspective.
I learned so many lessons during this one session with this doctor, but the biggest lesson I think I learned was that sometimes you just need to ask for help. This is always a challenge for me because I have so much knowledge and so many skills and tools that I think I can do everything on my own. But we don’t ever thrive alone. Being held with the positive energy and intentions of another can feed our mind, body, and soul. It can sometimes be miraculous.
So let me just leave you with the offer to let me be the person to hold you within good energy and intentions. If you feel that it’s time to reach out and get some help because you feel stuck in any part of your life, you never know what a quantum shift in perspective can do. Are you just a little curious to find out? If you are, please click below to schedule a complimentary 20-minute virtual consult.
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