Meet Jaimee Roncone – certified Daring to Rest facilitator and owner of a Healing Tree Health and Wellness Center in Northampton, Massachusetts. Jaimee is a woman who wears many hats and spent a lifetime helping people live their best lives – but not herself.
Ironically, she trained for years in many modalities to help others with a cancer diagnosis, but when she was diagnosed with cancer she thought the doctors were talking about someone else, not her.
Jaimee has stage 4 breast cancer to the bone of her left hip.
She entered the Daring to Rest Academy knowing this diagnosis, knowing she needed to rest, but not knowing how to stop the doing and helping everybody else. Like so many of us, she had no examples growing up of what rest looked like. And she believed that she did not have time to rest.
Jaimee initially took the Daring to Rest Academy yoga nidra teacher training to help others with cancer – which she now does to sold out workshops at Cancer Connections. But, as she shares on today's episode, "what I did not realize is that Daring to Rest would be for me in the end."
"With yoga nidra I finally did not have to try to do everything, or be a good girl, mom, or badass woman. I could just be. It was everything. It was the pause and the breath I had longed for."
Rest became the root of her personal healing – and now teaching.
