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Meet the author
Emily A. Francis is a highly sought-after speaker, author, and wellness expert with vast education and experience. Her commitment to total body, mind, and spirit wellness is her driving force. She believes in a whole body, proactive approach to wellness where balance is the key, and kindness paves the way.
Emily is the creator of the Somatic Emotion Chart and the Muscle Emotion Chart. She is also the host of the radio show All About Healing on Healthy Life Radio.
She has a Bachelor’s degree in Exercise Science and Wellness as well as a Master’s of Science in Physical Education with a concentration in Human Performance. She graduated from the Atlanta School of Massage in clinical and neuromuscular massage therapy and went on to specialize through the Dr Vodder School North America in manual lymphatic drainage and combined decongestive therapy, working specifically with lymphedema. She has completed level 1 and 2 of Upledger Craniosacral Therapy. Emily is a Usui & Karuna Ki Reiki Master level practitioner.
Emily is originally from Atlanta, GA, and currently resides in Malta. Follow her journey at www.mymaltalife.com (https://mymaltalife.com/)!
Healing Ourselves Whole
There is a part about healing trauma that I don't think enough people understand: The mind has an ability to check out in many situations when there is trauma involved. Some refer to it as shock. For example: after an accident, more times than not the person will be hazy about the experience and cannot properly recall the entire set of events.
We basically separate ourselves from any impact that may be occurring to the body itself. That is a gift of the mind that helps us to survive. The body, however, does not have that same luxury. The body cannot leave itself. The body takes the pain and absorbs the trauma. The way that our bodies store those particular memories is different from the way that our minds may remember it. When we learn how to dialogue with our body directly in order to recall the memories as they actually occurred and without the narrative of the mind, we can help our body release the stored pain and trauma that may have eluded us in our attempts to heal to this point.
On the flip side, an important piece of the work offered in this book, is to use the same dialoguing skills with the body to access the happy and joyful memories that the soft tissues store in order to produce more of the same. Following this guidance, we can create within ourselves a place of overall connectedness and personal empowerment. This can result in an increase in overall health, vitality, and wellness that can drastically improve our quality of life.
Autism Essentials
With a child who has recovered from her mild/moderate autism spectrum disorder and speech apraxia who no longer meets the DSM-5 criteria for either diagnosis and therefore had a removal of the original diagnosis, Emily is the contributing author to this book and her chapter is on recovery. Recovery is possible but the pathway to it will never be a direct road. Health and healing have always been Emily's field of study, but upon the diagnosis of her 3-year-old, she put everything aside and got to work on how to bring her child into the best possible environment to create the highest outcome possible. Many people do not believe it is possible to get off the spectrum, but Emily is here to challenge that belief and offer hope for their own children on their path to health and healing. No one has any right to tell you how or to what level healing is possible. When it comes to healing, anything is possible and miracles do happen.
Witchy Mama
