Thank you 💗

 

Thank you 💗

 

 

On “surviving” the first half of life

 

Good evening, sunshine! I want to thank you for a few things.

 

1) First of all thank you, as always, for opening this message!

 

I know you’re busy, and a lot of us have a knee-jerk (and fairly negative) reaction to more messages appearing in our inboxes. Thank you for overcoming both of those difficulties to stay connected with me 😊

 

2) Second, as some of you know, this was my birthday weekend! Thank you for all your birthday wishes 🎂🥰

 

According to the internet, someone named Ella Hicks has observed that “The first part of life is about becoming who you needed to be to survive. The second half is about unraveling everything that no longer aligns with your soul’s purpose.” ✨🌀🌍

 

I feel that!

 

And maybe you can too– even if you’re still in your “first part of life” (at 45 I officially am NOT 😂)

 

In so many things over the course of my life, including my education and training, my career, and my practice, I’ve learned to be very dedicated, smart, accomplished, helpful and trustworthy (and received a lot of praise for it!) 😇

 

Then as I got older, I looked back and began to see my past efforts (and sometimes current ones!) as the manifestation of a gargantuan, complex, and multi-tentacled trauma-response mechanism that was organizing my entire life 😱😂🙏

 

Take my past efforts around online reviews as an example.

 

Early on in my practice, it was VERY important to me to get some great reviews of my care published online 🙏

 

And to an extent, this need makes sense.

 

As any professional marketer would have pointed out, Network Spinal was/is a relatively unknown technique. And I was an unknown person!

 

Hence, it would be important to build trust with prospective clients with some “proof” online.

 

And yet, over the course of the next several/many years of “survival,” I began to notice the way it felt to me every time I received a 5-star review on Google.

 

It was like taking an exhale of relief. That’s right– just ONE exhale. And then after that exhale going right back to focusing on the other (survival) things 😅😰

 

It was the relief of feeling like I was now, officially, a couple millimeters further from harm 😂

 

Each review felt like it brought me the tiniest bit closer to a safe future where no one could hurt or harm me, my practice, or my reputation.

 

And that if I could continue in this vein with more, and more, and more reviews that some day (far away) I might be completely safe from harm (or at least mostly safe) 🙏🙏🙏

 

 

 

 

Healing-cat on the job ✨🌀😂

 

I know my description might sound crazy in some ways. But I share this experience because we all have these tendencies and this way of seeing life when we are just surviving 😰

 

After all, haven’t there been times when you’ve laid on an adjusting table in the sunshine room feeling a similar sense?

 

That just for a moment you were getting a slight gasp of relief? A delay from imminent doom? Whether or not it was true, it was true in your nervous system at that moment.

 

And even in our more energized states (the “Season of Transform” Stages 4, 5, 6, 7 in the 12 Stages of Healing) we come to realize that even in our purposeful attempts to move forward in life that on some level we were still avoiding. Still running away.

 

3) All of that to say THANK YOU to those of you who have written online reviews, and especially to all of you who recently participated in our recent annual effort to encourage Google reviews 🙌

 

This must have seemed like a pretty strange lead-in 😂

 

I’m not saying that just because I am now in the second half of my life, when I am presumably “unravelling everything that no longer aligns” with my “soul’s purpose,” that I’ll never ever relate to online reviews from an Energy Poor state again ✨

 

That would be like imagining that you or any of us will graduate to a completely pain-free and evolved state after a certain amount of time has passed or a certain amount of healing has taken place (sorry, new people, this isn’t going to happen!) 👩‍🎓😂🙏🌀🌀

 

Thank you for taking the time to send me words of gratitude in your online reviews 🙌

 

 

 

Most of all, thank you for your reviews that will send that “random” individual– someone you don’t know who is online looking for hope and wants to learn about Network Spinal–  something like that moment of exhale, a preview that scratches the surface of what’s to come, just by reading your words 🙏💗🌀☀️💌🌍👯‍♀️

 

I know that for every review written there have probably been 10 other people who have been impacted by this incredible care, place, and community.

 

If you haven’t written your review and would like to, you can do it here. You’re not going to hear from me about reviews again until next year 💥 

 

I look forward to hearing from you, and seeing you for your care this week Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Saturday 💖