Getting Past The Good, The Bad and The Ugly In Life

Someone asked me today about my profile. It says I am a Health Coach and that I learned the full body approach to healing. Their question was "What is the full body approach to healing?" Below is my response.

I have learned to factor in the mind, body and spirit connection. When I first started working with clients including my early work with my Mother, I did not realize how big an impact stress, anger, pain, divorce, death, illness, etc. factored in to a person and their disease. I had to learn how to help with all aspects of the person including being able to help them to get past all the things bringing pain to them, causing anger, stressing them. I started to minister to them. My goal is to help them achieve a level of balance that will be condusive to healing. The Letting Go And Letting God deal with it approach really works.

Many of my clients, within 1 year to 5 years before their diagnosis experienced a parent or loved one dieing or having to care for them, a divorce, or a major illness. Studies show that the stress from these type of events can lead to diseases including cancer and in my group of clients it holds true.

One of the biggest lessons I learned early on was to let people tell me everything about their condition...I call this The Good, The Bad and The Ugly and it spans every doctors diagnosis and usually includes a dead date where some doctor has told them they have 3mths, 6mths, 1year, etc. to live. When they are done I simply ask them...."So what do you think? (pause)... Are you ready to die in ____mths/yrs?... Do you have a purpose?... Are there things you still want to do?... After many, many pauses and much thought I usually hear them say they want to live, they decide they have a purpose and start talking about what or whom is important to them, they decide it is time to start living every day instead of dieing every day.

Those moments I believe are the reason I have worked with thousands of clients over the last 13 years and will continue to do this for as long as I am able. They inspire me.

What inspires you?

Blessings to you,
Jacki Smith
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