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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Today Is A Great Day

There are days in life that are just not fun. I talk to hundreds of people each week many with extremely serious health challenges. There are many of them that just do not get it. They want to continue eating junk food, drinking sodas, sitting around being a couch potato, stressed out and wondering why they do not feel better.

Then there are the great days when I talk to that one person that says I will do whatever it takes to regain my health. They change their diet, start juicing, add supplements, drink purified water, detox their system, start exercising, de-stress their life, build a support team around them, they give it to God and commit to give their body what it needs to repair and renew.

Yesterday I heard from one of those individuals. Manuel and his wife Connie called me just before Thanksgiving 2007. Manuel was battling cancer for the fourth time and had other health challenges as well. He gave it to God and changed everything. Connie saw such improvement in Manual she joined him changing her diet as well and their lives have totally changed.
Yesterday they sent me a quick email to update me and let me know how their roadtrip was going. "Manuel has been feeling great and we are having a great time in Arizona. They left San Antonio Jan 9th and will be heading back around Feb 15th." They also sent a link to their blog. If any of you are interested check it out http://esparzacm.blogspot.com/

I am collector of photos of sunrises and sunsets... even better still are those moments when I am there enjoying them myself. To me a sunrise is that quiet moment when God whispers Good Morning, we are going to have a tremendous day. Or at the end of the day as the sun sets when God lets me know we have had another spectacular day and we should just be thankful.

I am looking at one of the most spectacular sunsets I have ever seen that comes from Manuel & Connie's blog and I just had to share it with you.



Blessings,

Jacki Smith

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