For over a decade now I’ve been guiding and supporting people moving through & beyond a cancer journey and I’ve learned A LOT about what it takes to support healing & optimal health. As you can imagine, my approach and strategies have evolved over the years to reflect this. And the “Healing Helix” is yet another evolution.
For the past two years I’ve been diving more intimately into the world of emotional & spiritual wellness as well as energetic flow. What I’ve learned both for myself and my clients is that this is a critical piece to the healing puzzle. So much so, that I now know it needs to be at the center of a healing plan.
So with the latest iteration of my health & healing framework we start with Energy, then move out into Nourishment, then Remedies, & eventually Root Causes. These flow into each other in the shape of a helix.
A “Helix” is something spiral in form; like a spiral staircase or corkscrew. 🌀 The helix best reflects the concept of starting at an inner point and then moving our way up and around this point…adding strategies & evolving our state of health over time.
At the innermost core of this helix is energy then as we move up the spiral we can embrace all of the different nourishment strategies…still circling around energy…and as we advance further up the spiral we can incorporate various natural & complementary remedies as needed…still circling around our energetic core…and then finally dive deeper into root causes and imbalances in the body.
It’s a simple process and yet includes an array of powerful strategies & possibilities for healing, just like it did for one of my clients, Ashley.
Ashley came to me shortly after being diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer in the Fall of 2022. When I first met Ashley, she was in a state of complete overwhelm and experiencing feelings of anger, confusion, and panic surrounding her recent diagnosis.
After giving Ashley her first protocol, she started by implementing changes to her diet and incorporating the supplements I recommended, but found herself ignoring the spiritual healing aspects of the protocol. Ashley admitted, “I started making changes in my diet as they were encouraged by my oncologist as well but completely ignored the other parts of the protocol for weeks because I just wasn’t ready or able to process it all. A couple days before our follow up meeting, I felt like a student who was about to get in trouble for not doing their homework so I finally opened the protocol and found the link to the emotional & spiritual wellness video. After watching it and recognizing that our emotions have control over how our genes express themselves was so empowering and was a major turning point in my healing journey! I had mostly only been feeling negative emotions at this point which I realized would not help me heal”.
Thanks to the spiritual-emotional work AND the dietary-lifestyle changes, Ashley radically changed her outlook. In her words, “Because of all that I’m doing, I now experience boundless energy every single day and I’m excited to wake up each morning because I realize one – it’s a gift to even wake up as life is short; and two – it’s invigorating to take more power back into my life. I get to choose each day how I perceive the things that come up. After developing a nightly gratitude practice, I started to realize you can find good in every single day! And our mind gets to control how we experience these things, so why not tell ourselves more powerful, loving messages so that we can experience more joy each day? I now tell myself I don’t HAVE TO do all these things to heal, but I GET TO. What a perspective shift!”.
A wonderful side-effect to all of this work is an improvement in Ashley’s scans! After only 3 months of treatment plus our work together, the swelling in the lymph nodes was completely gone, some liver spots were completely gone and the biggest one was way smaller with less swelling, and she could barely even feel the lump in her breast anymore!!
Ashley’s story beautifully illustrates why I love to do what I do! Marrying energy healing with spiritual wellness, nourishment, natural remedies, & looking at the “why” to produce holistic wellness is what I love to share with people. These four principles are the foundation of the “Healing Helix” framework.
Energetic Flow
We start with “Energy” because this is at the center of healing & optimal health and perhaps THE most important thing we can support. I’ve seen hundreds of people integrate diet, supplements, & lifestyle strategies and still hit a “wall” in their healing…an upper limit if you will. This is because we weren’t also addressing their energy.
Negative emotions, chronic stress, emotional wounds, & trauma get “stuck” in the body. These blockages create dis-ease & can prevent all of the nourishing strategies & remedies we’re bringing in to be used to their fullest potential.
When we remove these blocks and enhance the flow of energy again we can nourish your cells in a much deeper way and enhance the healing process.
The goal of improving your energetic flow is 2-fold:
- First, identify & remove any stuck or blocked emotions, stress, or trauma that are getting in the way of your healing.
- Next, raise your energetic vibration to create an environment where your cells, tissues, & organs can heal & optimize their function.
Accomplishing these 2 steps is not as hard as it may seem. There are literally hundreds of ways we can enhance your energetic flow. My favorite ways to get started are with a gratitude practice & getting into nature every day. Nature helps us ground our energy while gratitude helps us elevate our energy and bring in more positive, loving emotions.
Nourishment
Once we have a plan to enhance your energetic flow we can NOURISH this state with many different diet, lifestyle, & self-care habits. The goal is to bring in nutrients, hydration, rest, love, & joy to nourish your cells in a deep & therapeutic way. While we also add practices that build resilience physically, mentally, & emotionally.
Here are just a sampling of the ways you can accomplish this:
- Vibrant, energy giving foods with plenty of fresh organic fruits, veggies, herbs, fresh juice, sprouts, fermented foods, and more
- Pleasurable exercise & movement helps us move energy
- Optimal hydration with nourishing fluids like filtered water, spa water, herbal teas, green tea, fresh juices, broth, coconut water, and more
- Deep & restorative sleep
- Oxygenation with breathwork, exercise, & time in nature
- Living in alignment with the Earth and her changing seasons
- Embracing your most authentic self and following your passions & purpose
Plus so much more. When we bring your focus & attention towards enhancing energy & adding deep nourishing practices to your routine, your body will already have much of what it needs to heal and stay healthy…and for many people this will be exactly what they need to thrive.
Remedies
Once you’ve added in practices to enhance your Energy & Nourish yourself more deeply, then we can consider what additional support may be needed. The order of the Helix is very intentional. In the Western model of medicine we start with the treatment without looking at the foundation that the treatment is working on. Sometimes that’s enough but many times it’s not.
At Ground & Root our goal is to not only help your treatment be as effective as possible but more importantly to change the environment within your body that allowed the cancer to grow in the first place. This is the only way we can support complete healing and truly help you stay cancer-free.
At this level we can add in natural or complementary remedies to further enhance treatment or minimize side effects if needed. We can bring in strategies to boost the immune system and even enhance long-term cancer prevention. There is a wide variety of holistic tools available to us and we help you prioritize the ones that will be most helpful for your needs.
Root Causes
Unlike traditional dietitians or oncology teams, at Ground & Root we believe that helping you heal and recover is only the 1st step of this journey. We also need to dive deeper and identify the underlying imbalances or root causes to your cancer in order to reduce the chance of it coming back or growing a new cancer.
There is always a “why” or sometimes multiple whys and our goal is to help you understand your unique risks. We do this by looking at your genetics as well as the 7 systems of cancer prevention. We help you assess which areas may be putting you at risk and the steps to rebalance or enhance their function.
By bringing in functional labs and testing we can see what’s happening physiologically behind the scenes and help you design a truly personalized and comprehensive plan to help you heal and stay cancer-free.
A True Holistic Path To Health
The Healing Helix allows us to make sure we’re approaching your health & healing from a truly holistic & comprehensive framework. It will never be just one thing (or one treatment) that heals us, especially when it comes to cancer. Everything has its limits, even chemotherapy & radiation, as we learned in the Cancer Stem Cells post. And yes, of course, your diet & nutrition are a very important piece to this puzzle…but again not the only piece.
By getting to the root causes of your disease while also enhancing ALL areas of your life (body, mind, spirit, & energy) healing is possible! This is our unique philosophy and approach to healing and it’s the framework we use with all of our private clients, group coaching members, and in our retreats. I also follow these same principles in my own life and I can’t wait to help you do the same.
If you’re ready to elevate your health & healing plan by adding in a truly holistic body-mind-spirit approach then I invite you to take the next step and watch our FREE Masterclass. You can learn more and sign-up here: The 4 Levels to Deep Healing Masterclass.
