Your Body Speaks Long Before Labs Do - Episode 338

Welcome And Why This Show Sandy Kruse 0:02 Hi everyone, it's me, Sandy Cruz. Welcome to Sandy K Nutrition, Health and Lifestyle Queen. For many years now, I've been a trusted voice for people in midlife and beyond who want a deeper, more honest conversation about wellness, one that includes the physical, the emotional, the mental, and the esoteric. Most episodes are solo now because I want to bring you thoughtful research, lived experience, and grounded insight without noise or bias.

And when I do bring on a guest, it's because their work genuinely adds something meaningful to the conversation. Here we explore the full spectrum of what it means to be well, how the body functions, how the mind heals, how the spirit expands, and how all of these layers shape life lived with clarity and joy. Thanks for being here. And if this show resonates with you, please follow rate, review, and share it.

It truly helps the message reach more people. Hi Symptoms As Signals Not Random Noise Sandy Kruse 1:32 everyone, welcome to Sandy K Nutrition Health and Lifestyle Queen. Today I'm going to talk about signs and symptoms of the body. And I'm sure many of you who follow my podcast might have read the book The Body Keeps the Score.

This is a pretty old book. And I read it many, many, many years ago. This would have been before I went back to college to become a registered holistic nutritionist. And that was in 2016 when I started.

Yeah, 2016. And I graduated in 2019. And The Body Keeps the Score is kind of one of those older books. It's by, I believe, Dr.

Bessel Vanderkolk. And this podcast is kind of based around that work, although I'm gonna refer to many other texts. I have had the honor of interviewing some of these writers and creators of their books and in some cases their processes, like for example, Dr. Bradley Nelson.

He wrote the body code, and I have the book right here, and the motion code. And I recorded with him a while ago. I also recorded with Yvette Rose about metaphysical anatomy and Julia Cannon. And you know, back in college, we read the book.

It's called The Anatomy of the Spirit. So some of you might be like, why is she so interested in the metaphysical, the esoteric, the soul side, the spirit side? Because my training incorporated that. I am trained with the Canadian School of Natural Nutrition as a registered holistic nutritionist.

However, I was trained in sure symptomatology and in biology and pathology and all the science things, but we also brought in the soul. That's why everything I do, everything I believe in, it's science and soul. It's not only science, it's not only soul. And I remember studying Carolyn Miss or Mice M Y S S, The Anatomy of the Spirit.

I'm holding the book up if you're watching this. But it's really all stemming from energy medicine. And I do believe our body keeps the score. So I'm gonna start this podcast, and it might sound like a little bit of a contradiction, you know, but science and soul are contradicting, right?

So Science And Soul On One Team Sandy Kruse 4:31 I need you to stay with me because I I'm gonna say if you're not interested in this, you're not even gonna listen to the podcast. But I am gonna say this your illness, don't call it yours, by the way, the illness that you are experiencing. Okay, words matter. It is real, it is biological, and it is happening in cells and your, you know, your cortisol and your tissue, and it deserves real doctors, real labs, real treatment, not you know what you're hearing or seeing or reading in social media or AI.

However, at the very same time, your body may be keeping a record of something that no lab can ever measure. So both of these things are true, not one or the other, but both. And one of them only you can really decipher. So the mistake the wellness world makes is forcing you to pick a side.

I mean, I think the whole world is like that. Pick a side, come on. Do you believe in this or that? No, you can't believe in both.

I personally don't subscribe to that, and I don't believe that you have to pick a side. And this is why I always incorporate science and soul. This one, this podcast, is gonna incorporate a little bit of science, a lot more soul, and that's okay too. So I am gonna ask you to pause here and hit subscribe or follow wherever you are watching or listening, because I am one of the few independent podcasters left out there without a big machine behind me writing everything for me, telling me what to say, writing my scripts.

I mean, there's not a lot out there. I'm also not a celebrity. There's a ton of celebrity podcasters out there. Everything that I am bringing to you is because I see it as an important piece to your wholeness, to your wellness, to your longevity.

And I am credentialed at the same time. So if you like my work, please follow me. Find me anywhere. I am everywhere.

I'm also this multimedia platform that I've somehow developed myself over the last nine plus years. It's Sandy K Nutrition Everywhere on TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, um, threads. I am also a writer. I am an English literature graduate.

So I do love to write. I write poetry, I write pieces on Substack. Follow me on Substack. Most of what I do is free, my friends, which clearly shows you that I am all about passion over profit.

So do me that favor. Also, wherever you are listening, please leave me a few kind words and a rating and a review. That also helps me to be found found because I don't have that machinery. I don't have a multimedia platform where everything is pushed out using SEO and all these people to help.

So that helps when you share, when you review, when you do all the things. So I'm going to continue now with my topic. Here's what I actually see every day in the world I've worked in as an RHN since 2019. I've been on this platform, not this platform in particular, but on Instagram for over nine years.

I started as a college student and I was 46. I decided to go back to college. And most of you know, you know, sometimes you turn pain into purpose. So back in 2010, my daughter at the age of five was diagnosed with cancer.

Uh, exactly one year later, I was diagnosed with thyroid cancer. Once I got, you know, me and my family back on our feet and our health, I decided to go back to college. So I've been doing this for a very long time. My podcast over six years.

And what's happening is we are spending billions on functional medicine, bioidentical hormones, and endless elimination diets and autoimmune rates are still climbing. We are trying to out-supplement, outfast, out biohack, out-medicate our own unhealed lives. We are polishing the hardware and refusing to open the software. And I want to talk today about the software without ever telling you to abandon the hardware because that matters too.

It does matter, all of it matters, and I'm not trying to stress you out, but when you become more in tune with yourself, I tell you you live a more enriched life. And one of the things I said, I'm not really interested in telling you how to live to 120, like some of these people out there. I think it's a joke. I really do because I think that there's a greater reason why people live longer, and sure, we can do things, but to hurt our longevity.

But haven't you ever seen that woman on TikTok, on Instagram? Who knows if it's real? But she's 95, she smoked two cigarettes her whole life. She loves to have her little treat.

She loves to enjoy a drink now and again. And for me, I care about what's within those lives and that life that we have. That's why I take all of these subjects so so to heart. Because at 56, I've seen a lot, and you know, like I think that life is not well lived when you live like a robot, but it's also not well lived if you live like you could give two shits about taking care of this beautiful vessel that we have while we're here on earth.

So, really, it's all about balance. So, let's talk about what the body keeps a score actually means because it's not just a nice phrase, there's a real-sided science underneath it, and exactly where that science stops and the soul work begins, and that's when I'm gonna talk about the Julia Cannons and the Michael J. Lincoln's and all of these amazing metaphysical and more esoteric works out there to say, not to say, hey Sandy, this is exactly the way it is, and this is why you had thyroid cancer. Boom!

Now we know. No, it's just a part of the map to you, Sandy Cruz, or whoever is listening. That's all it is, and when we incorporate all of it, the science and the soul, it can be pretty fascinating. Let's get into what the body keeps the score, actually means.

Trauma Biology Polyvagal And Cortisol Sandy Kruse 13:04 So the phrase comes from Dr. Bessel van der Koelk's book of the same name, and it's worth knowing what he's really claiming because it's more radical than a metaphor. His argument, built on decades of trauma research, is that overwhelming experiences uh don't get filed away as a tidy memory that you can choose to revisit, it gets stored lower down in the body, in the autonomic nervous system, in the parts of the brain that don't speak in language, your thinking mind can think about all the time. Like the fact is, is that a lot of this gets buried.

So the body can say, actually stay stuck in the moment of threat years later, still bracing. And we can measure pieces of this. So Stephen Porge's polyvagal framework describes how the vagus nerve, that great wandering nerve that connects your brain stem to your heart, your lungs, your gut, governs whether you're in a state of safety or a state of defense. When you're chronically stuck in defense, that's not a feeling, you know, that's not a feeling of floating in the either.

It's a physiological setting and it touches your digestion, your heart rate, inflammation, and hormones. And underneath that sits the HPA access, the hypothalamus, pituitary adrenals, the cortisol system. So if you live under enough sustained stress, that system, the HPA access, it dysregulates. And dysregulated cortisol doesn't stay in its lane.

It reaches into your thyroid function, blood sugar, your sleep, immune signaling, your gut permeability. I have talked about this in episodes about when I was diagnosed with thyroid cancer. I had a lot of stress, my friends. And thyroid cancer did not develop in a day.

So that's why I want to primarily focus on the soul, the metaphysical, how it affects us. Because it's not talked about enough as a piece of the puzzle. Remember, I do not believe it replaces all the other pieces of your puzzle. Okay.

So everything that I talked about there is measurable, right? About the body keeping the score and all of that. But what comes next actually is not. And I'm not going to pretend that you can measure this because, you know, I can't blur that line.

Uh, and I am that wellness voice that is science and soul. So this is the other half that is not measurable. So Metaphysical Maps For Body Language Sandy Kruse 16:57 there's a whole body of metaphysical literature that takes this really far. And I've spent many years inside it.

Dr. Bradley Nelson, the emotion code, the body code, describes trapped emotional energy that is lodged in specific organs. Michael J. Lincoln's Messages from the Body is a dictionary that maps body parts to emotional and relational themes.

And his earlier work has quite the bluntness that I actually have never found anywhere else. And he doesn't soften it. And I actually really love him for that. And if you're watching, this is a giant anthology.

Okay, it's huge. And I found this when I was visiting Sedona for the second time, I think it was in 2022, and I found this and then I checked quickly to see if it was available in Canada. I couldn't find it in Canada. Maybe it is now, but I brought it home on the plane because I'm like, I have to have this book.

And Michael J. Lincoln, I'm pretty sure he's passed, but he had a PhD in clinical psychology from the University of Oregon. Okay. So he actually was a professor, a researcher, a mental health counselor, and he was an author.

And he was the clinical director of one of the first behavioral modification treatment programs for emotionally disturbed children. So he pioneered the successful healing therapy of deep wounds in both children and their family through the integration of behavioral psychoanalytic approaches. So this is a super cool book if you can get your hands on it. But I'm blending all of these thought leaders, I like to call them.

And Dr. Yvette Rose wrote Metaphysical Anatomy. And I also had the honor of interviewing her. And if you're looking at this, it's also a giant anthology.

And I have all these like little tabs marked off because I just find it so fascinating. And a lot of times people will DM me and say, Hey, you have that book. Can you tell me what this means? Because it is something to add to a piece of your wellness puzzle.

So that is oh oh, and and then there was also Julia Cannon, who I also interviewed. She's the daughter of the late, I think it's Dor Doreen or Dorothy Cannon. Dorothy, one of I can't remember, that's awful. But she's the daughter, and she wrote the book called Soul Speak.

And I found Soul Speak kind of gives everything a grammar and almost like a map. So I've had the privilege to sit down with Dr. Bradley Nelson, Julia Cannon, Yvette Rose on the show. Go back to my podcast catalog if you want to learn more specifically about each of these authors and creators.

But what Julia gave me is a piece that I actually use the most. It's the idea that the body has an actual language. And once you learn a few of its rules, you can read it instead of just fearing it. And sometimes when I read certain things in these larger anthologies, I'll be like, that doesn't resonate.

But then when I really think about how certain things affect me personally, this is why it's about you. I'm just giving you some concepts, and you're the one who's gonna go and take that away. So a couple of the rules of some of the things that Julia Cannon talks about is the left side, and this is actually not just her. I've heard this elsewhere.

The left side of the body tends to carry the feminine. So this is the receiving side, the intuition side, the woman and the mother energy in your life. The right side carries the masculine, the giving, the action, the more masculine father energy. The front of the body is the face that you show the world and your present-day feeling.

Okay. The back holds the past, the things behind you, the things you'd rather not turn around and look at. So in this language, it's never just my knee hurts. It's which knee is it?

On which side, in the front or the back, right? And that's the whole difference. But you have to really see what resonates with you. Now, I I'm not going to stand here and tell you that these authors have approved have proven that a trapped emotion has a measurable frequency sitting in your left ovary because it's not established science.

And I'm not going to say it is. But what I will tell you is this these frameworks are lenses for you. They ask a question that the labs don't ask or answer either. And a good question can be true in the way a poem is true, even when it isn't true in the way a blood panel is true.

So before I read even a single body part, I need to also talk about this. In No Blame Sontag And Clear Boundaries Sandy Kruse 22:47 1978, Susan Sontag wrote illness as a metaphor. She had had cancer, and she was furious at a culture that kept implying that cancer patients had somehow caused their disease with their repressed emotion, their personality, their unlived lives. She called it what it is a way of blaming sick people for being sick.

And she was right to kind of be annoyed by this. When you tell a woman with breast cancer that she over-nurtured her way into a tumor, you've not given her insight. You have handed her shame on top of a life-threatening illness and suggested she could have thought her way out of it. So that's kind of like almost cruel.

So here's my opinion. And what follows is not a diagnosis of cause. Your disease, never call it yours, by the way. The disease that you live with did not happen because you failed emotionally.

These mappings are not verdicts, they're just doorways for you. A doorway asks a question. It doesn't assign guilt. And none of this, none of it replaces your physician, your physician, yours, not social media and what they say.

Okay. Someone who knows you, your physician, your labs, your medication, your treatment plan. If you have a diagnosis, you must keep your care team that you resonate with, that you called in. Okay.

The inner work runs alongside that. Never instead of it. And if a symptom is new, severe, or won't quit, that's not a riddle to decode. It's a phone call to your physician that knows you.

And if you hold it that way, as inquiry, not indictment, this is some of the most useful reflection that you'll ever do in your life. Let Reading Everyday Pain Patterns Sandy Kruse 25:18 me get out of the big frightening diagnoses for a minute and into the everyday stuff. Just the aches that nearly every one of us has had. And this is where the language is easiest to hear, where it costs you nothing to try it on.

Okay. Same rule as before: doorway, not verdict. Start at the top. Let's start with headaches.

And across Lincoln and Rose, the whole tradition, the recurring theme is self-invalidation. The pressure to be perfect, the harsh inner critic that never lets you off the hook. Lincoln is blunt about it. The headache is the mind punishing itself.

So the question isn't which painkiller? It's where am I holding myself to a standard I'd never impose on someone that I love. Migraines take it further into the driven white knuckle grip on control. The flow of life resisted until the body forced you into a dark room to stop.

How many of you have migraines or have had migraines? I the very, very first migraine I ever had, which is what prompted investigative testing, was almost, almost a year after my daughter had been diagnosed with a soft tissue sarcoma. And I had spent that year prior making sure her name wasn't on the bottom of that medical pile that she was always looked after, going to appointments, a lot of control. And again, this isn't to say anything definitive.

However, I can relate to this myself. Let's go down to the neck. The neck is about flexibility, the literal ability to turn your head and see another point of view. Stiffness there asks, whose perspective am I refusing to even look at?

We literally call a person who won't we won't deal with a pain in the neck. That's your body, right? The shoulders are where we carry what we think we're supposed to. Every responsibility, every I'll handle it, every person leaning on you.

The shoulders hold the weight of obligation. And here, Julia Cannon, her rule uh is that the left shoulder and the right shoulder are asking about different people. Left, the women and the receiving, right, the men and the doing. Yvette Rose would take you back further and ask when you first learned that everyone's load was yours to carry.

Let's move to the back. The lower back is about support and specifically material, financial support, the fear of not being held up, of not having enough. The upper back holds withheld love and the sense of being unsupported emotionally. Get off my back is not an accident.

The middle back holds guilt, the past sitting right between your shoulder blades. Now let's get into the gut. The gut is one of my favorites because everyone's got gut problems, right? And the language is actually very literal.

Digestion is about what you can stomach, what you can take in, break down, and assimilate not just food, but experience other people's behavior, the thing you can't digest. Constipation in this tradition is holding on to the past, to old resentment, to control, refusing to let anything move through you. And anxiety also lives in the gut. And this is where the soul reading and the science actually shake hands because now we know the gut and the vagus nerve are in constant conversation with each other.

The butterflies are real, the nervous system is talking to you through your belly. Now let's talk about the skin. The skin, the literal edge of where we end and our world begins. So, eczema, rashes, rosacea, something that I actually suffered from really badly right around menopause.

And so we ask, what is getting under my skin? And who am I letting in too close? Yvette Rose ties skin trouble to safety and to touch, sometimes to the exact age when your boundary was first crossed. Acne in Lincoln's reading.

So that book with Michael J. Lincoln points at self-rejection, a quiet war with your own face. The senses tell on us constantly. Eyes, what I don't want to see in my life, in someone I love, in the future I'm walking towards.

When children sudden suddenly develop eye trouble, this tradition asks what's happening at home that the child doesn't want to look at. Ears and the ringing, tinnitus. What don't I want to hear? And whose voice have I stopped letting in?

The jaw, the clench, the grind, the TMJ. So many midlife women are carrying all of that right now is unexpressed anger and indecision. The words and the decisions we grind down at night instead of speaking in daylight. Lower down, the body is all about moving forward.

The hips, so the hips they carry big directional decisions, afraid to make a move. The knees are pride and refusal to bend. Lincoln's knee is the stubborn one, the person who simply will not yield. And again, a left and a right knee point at different relationships, different causative factors.

The feet and the ankles are your foundation and your fear of the next step, where you're headed, and whether you trust the ground under you. Let's get into a few of the organs where the metaphysical map and the old Chinese medicine map agree so often. The liver, the liver holds anger and long simmering resentment. East and west put both both of them put anger right there.

The lungs, they hold grief, asthma in this reading, and the feeling of being smothered, the suppressed cry that never got to come out. The kidney and adrenals hold fear. And the science actually nods to that because your cortisol system, your fight or flight, the exact machinery we started with, and the bladder. Well, we say we're pissed off for a reason.

See, I'm giving you a literal reason to take a look at your body when you are feeling something. Two more. Insomnia in the same tradition is fear and a mind that won't trust the night. And physiologically, it's the vigilant nervous system that never got the signal it was safe to stand down.

And the weight we carry, okay. I want to be careful here because diet culture has done enough damage to women who are listening, is read not as a failure of willpower, but as protection, a buffer. The body that built safety around a soft place that once got hurt. That's not a flaw to punish, my beauties.

That's a message to thank and then to actually listen to. Let's Thyroid Womb Breasts And Autoimmunity Sandy Kruse 34:41 talk about the thyroid, the gland that sits at the throat. Let's start where I started my own health journey and where I wrote a whole book. It's right behind me.

It's actually a guide, the essential thyroid guide, which is blending the science and soul. It is not a clinical book, so don't think it's that. Hypothyroidism and Hashimoto's are quietly epidemic and it's overwhelming in women. So the biology first, because it's real.

The thyroid is exquisitely sensitive to the stress system that I described. And I described how deeply stressed I was when I was diagnosed. Chronic HPA access activation, chronically dysregulated cortisol, suppresses the conversation of your thyroid hormone into its active form, the T3, and can also worsen autoimmune thyroid activity. So add in, you know, there's a lot of controversy around iodine status, but add in maybe that, if that's something that you believe in or that you've tested, gut permeability, and then the immune picture, and you have a gland that is genuinely physically responsive to a life lived in defense mode.

That's not woo, that's endocrinology, my friends. And by the way, I am certified in um endocrinology and hormones too, just so you know. Now let's talk about the doorway. The side, the thyroid sits at the throat, the place that we speak from.

Michael Lincoln's language for thyroid trouble is humiliated silence. Yvette Rose links it to learning early that speaking your truth was dangerous. So the question, not the verdict, the question is this where in my life did I learn that my voice was a problem? Where do I swallow what I mean?

And call it keeping the peace, the gland at the throat in a woman who spent decades performing agreement over swallowed truth. Is that the cause? I don't know. Is it worth sitting with while you also take your medication and run your labs?

Sure it is. Let's talk about the womb, uterus, endometriosis, fibroids, cyclical menstrual pain, millions of women routinely dismissed, routinely under-researched. The biology and the associations first. Pelvic pain conditions are inflammatory and hormonal and structural, real disease processes, not moods.

And I am going to talk about something down the road that is a real thing, but not a lot of people talk about it. I am going to talk about it. So be sure you're subscribing. Then there's a thread in the research worth naming.

Honestly, some studies have found associations between early life adversity or abuse and later chronic pelvic pain. And even some links with endometriosis risk. Associations, correlations, and populations, not a verdict about you specifically, but it fits the larger pattern, a nervous system shaped by early threat expressing itself in the body years on. The doorway.

In Yvette and Julia's work, the womb is the place that we hold creation and boundaries and relational grief. And remember the left-to-right rule because the reproductive organs are where the feminine line runs strongest. Julia frames the womb as where we store the energy of giving our power away. Yvette ties it to boundary violation and unmourned loss, often down the maternal line, so generational.

So the question becomes: is there a grief that I've never properly buried? A boundary that I keep failing to draw decade after decade. Again, this is not why you have fibroids. It's a place to look while you keep every appointment in your calendar, my friends.

The breasts. Emotional suppression and personality have not been shown to cause breast cancer. And this is the exact terrain that Sontag warned us about, where a woman fighting for her life gets told that her own kindness metastasized. You see what I'm saying?

So I hold breast as a symbol of nurturing of what we give and whether any of it ever comes back to us. And I let it ask a soul question about your life. Where am I pouring out and never receiving? The question is worth your honesty, but it's not the cause of the tumor.

And I won't let, you know, that whole poetic stuff outrun the evidence on something especially that serious. Now let's get into autoimmune disease. And I saved this one because the immune system is where the trauma and the body story has actually the most solid ground under it. The medical definition of autoimmunity is the immune system attacking the body's own tissue.

And remember, there was a study, Dub and colleagues, the 2009 study in psychosomatic medicine, built on the ACE data. They found a dose response relationship between childhood adversity and being hospitalized for autoimmune disease as an adult. More early adversity, more autoimmune risk tracking together. That's the real finding.

The nervous system that spent childhood braced for threat appears in the data to carry a higher autoimmune burden decades later. The esoteric read. Nelson and Yvette call autoimmunity the body turning against itself, the physical echo of self-rejection, of anger that had nowhere safe to go and turn inward. And I want to be precise about how I use this.

And remember, I'm just reciting what's in the books. I'm not saying self-loathing flips your immune system like a switch. I'm saying here is a documented link between early wounding and immune disease. And here is a soul frame that asks whether some part of you is still at war with yourself.

The science gives you the correlation, and the soul work asks what you might do about the part of it that lives in how you treat yourself now, today, in your own head. You can work that inner front and take your immunosuppressant. That's not a contradiction. That's the whole point of this episode.

Doing Ancestral Grief And Epigenetics Sandy Kruse 43:51 the inner work while taking care of your physical, beautiful body. Now let's get into If grief can actually be inherited, because someone always asks, is this real? The ancestral peace, grief handed down through a bloodline. There is genuinely emerging and genuinely debated research here.

So there was that mouse study back from 2014. It's uh in uh nature neuroscience. I've talked about this with Mark Woolen, who wrote It Didn't Start With You, All About Generational Trauma. I've recorded with him twice.

And it showed a conditioned fear response appearing to pass to offspring who never met the trigger to begin with. And then Mulligan and colleagues found epigenetic signatures in Syrian families who were exposed to war violence. Rachel Yehunda's work on the children of Holocaust survivors points to altered stress hormone regulation in the next generation. This is real science.

And it's also earlier, contested science. The human evidence is more thin and argued over. And anyone who tells you it's settled in selling, like this is definitive, they're probably trying to sell you something. So hold it exactly as honestly as you know you wish.

It's plausible being studied, not proven the way gravity is proven. And the sole question stands, regardless of how the science lands, whose grief am I carrying that was never mine to begin with? Because you can feel the answer to that once long before a journal can confirm it. So I've I'm gonna take a pause here for a second because I've done a lot of interesting therapies.

And I've worked with some incredible, incredible people who work with energy medicine. I've done, I can't even tell you, countless beam therapy sessions with Brenda Farugia of So Brilliant, and I will recommend her forever, as long as I can remember, because I've done beam therapy sessions and things have popped into my mind that were just almost shocking. And I'm like, how am I even holding that? And it's relating to my grandmother and you know, my lineage, and I do believe there's something very real, and there's enough research out there to say I was in my grandmother.

We know this, I was an egg in my mother, formed already as an egg in my grandmother's uterus. So I really believe in this myself. Now let's move on. The Wellness Industry Outsourcing Trap Sandy Kruse 46:59 The coupon code cure and why the answer is never fully outside of you.

Here's where all of this stops being philosophy and starts costing people their health, their money, and their trust in their own bodies. The wellness industry. I've talked about this a lot. I recorded a podcast about this.

The one that has exploded since I started this work, it's quietly trained you to outsource your body to a stranger with a discount code before you even learned to sit still and listen to yourself. The coupon code cure is the answer, is and it's always outside of you, according to social media. One more supplement, one more protocol, one more code. And look, you know, I use these tools now and again, but I recommend things that I really believe in.

Outside help is real and it does matter. We always have to call in our experts. But outside is meant to be in service of your inner knowing, never a replacement for it. You can't buy a supplement to resolve the self-abandonment underneath an autoimmune flare.

You can't code your way out of a grief. You refuse to mourn. Everything that I teach runs in one direction. The power is within you first, and then the help.

You first, then the supplement, the specialist, the doctor, the protocol, and in that order. It's all it always should be in that order. Have you ever gone to a doctor's office and felt this awful energy being there, feeling like you somehow, you know, feel dismissed or whatever? Every single one of us has.

Come on. So inner knowing first, know what you want, and then you bring in your experts that know you. How do you move what the body's holding? Moving Stored Stress With EFT Tapping Sandy Kruse 49:02 Let's say you do do a lot of reflective work and you have read some of these texts, or you want to.

If the body keeps score, then insight alone doesn't settle the account. You can understand exactly what your throat goes tight with, and if it's still, if you could feel it tighten, because the charge is stored underneath language in the nervous system, in the tissue. And it has to be met where it actually lives. And that's what energy work is for.

So I need to be clear about this because I will not blur the line that I started with the episode with. Energy work is not a cure for a disease, it does not cure disease. What it does is give the stored charge in your body a way to move so it stops running your life from the basement. It's not a replacement for your doctor, your labs, your treatment.

It's the layer that's yours alone running alongside the medicine, addressing the energy so you can actually process the thing instead of carrying it for another 30 years. So the modality that I practice for years, and it's the one that my mentor, Brenda Farugia of So Brilliant that I keep coming back to, is uh EFT. Oh yeah. Emotional freedom techniques, tapping.

Gary Craig's the original creator of this, he worked alongside actually the original original creator. And I will say I found it to be the most life-changing, but I've developed a program to make it even more unique. So basically, what you do is you hold the true uncomfortable thing in your mind and you tap through a sequence of acupressure points while you stay with it. It's almost like too simple, but believe it or not, there actually is research and more and more research suggesting it can lower your physiological stress markers, like cortisol.

So there you go. I will come back to this and I am going to be talking more and more about this because I've created a method that actually makes it not a general tapping. So I've talked about a lot. Reflection Questions And Closing Ask Sandy Kruse 51:47 The work was never spotting this out there, it's spotting it in here.

So sit with these, honestly, and don't perform the answers because a performed answer will heal nothing. Where am I swallowing my truth and keeping the peace where my throat pays for it? Whose perspective am I refusing to even turn and look at? If you have neck pain, what loss am I still holding in my body because I've refused to actually mourn it?

Where am I pouring out to people who actually drain me while abandoning my own self completely? And then the deepest one, where am I forgiving in someone else what I'd never forgive in myself or punishing in myself what I'd instantly forgive in someone I love? Wherever you land, even if it's ugly, it's not a verdict on you, it's just a starting line. So you want to feel the flinch.

You don't want to numb it. That small voice that's telling you your body's been carrying something that was never yours. That's not weakness, and it's not you being, you know, overdramatic. That's your own knowing, waking up.

And your job is to turn the volume back up on that. And then this is the part that I'm never going to stop saying. You keep your doctors that know you, you keep your labs, you keep your treatments, and you add this underneath as the layer that's yours and yours alone. Science and soul, both hands on the wheel.

You are not the victim of your body, you are the author of what you do next with it. It began with you, it always did. And I'm gonna end there. I'm gonna ask you to subscribe and share this.

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