 How do we optimize the body for health?
Why do some people feel better -- and some don’t -- when doing all the right things? These are the questions answered through what I call The Restorative Method. It's not just another stress management or self-care tool. Instead, The Restorative Method addresses why some people might struggle to turn the stress dial down and how to reboot the system for success. You see, it’s not necessarily that our tactics are wrong. It’s not that there’s some healing secret we just haven’t found or been told about yet. It’s not even necessarily that we need to try one more thing or one different diet. In fact, as you work through The Restorative Method, you may find yourself trying the very same tactics you tried in the past -- but finally with very different results. Or, on the other hand, you may find yourself trying something entirely new or even, perhaps for the first time in a long time, trying nothing at all.  Would you believe that what you think you're eating can affect what you're actually eating? That there's a difference between the food placed in front of you -- and what you perceive that food to be? That your body may respond to what you *think* you're eating OVER what you're actually taking in?
The first time I was introduced to this topic was throughout the book Mind Over Medicine. Author Dr. Lissa Rankin wrote this book to discuss the body's innate ability to self-repair -- and highlight our capacity for influencing this ability through the power of the mind. In Mind Over Medicine, Dr. Rankin shares a study done by Dr. Alia Crum, clinical psychologist at Yale University, called "Mind Over Milkshake". This study has since become one of my most favorite examples of how the mind can influence the physical body. It shows how our beliefs about the foods we're eating can impact the digestive system even more than the contents of the food itself.  If you're wondering how to feel better with autoimmune disease, then you've probably been diagnosed with an autoimmune disease or other physical illness that impacts your daily life. You probably are ALREADY doing a ton of the things in an effort to feel better and maybe even feel like yourself again.
But likely, since you're here, things aren't exactly working or you haven't found the right combination of tools just yet. You're not actually feeling much better. You might be where I was a few years ago... Hopping from program to program, expert to expert, diet to diet, self-care fad to self-care fad... all in the name of trying to feel better with autoimmune disease. Maybe you've tried meditation, and EFT, or even Reiki. Maybe you're doing anything at all to feel even the tiniest bit better -- but nothing seems to stick. Perhaps even all of those different healing remedies are starting to take over your life. You’ve got one foot in this tool and one foot in another. Your drive to feel better is eating up your time, energy, and money. Maybe you're frustrated, or overwhelmed, or even bitter at these changes you have to make. You might be saying, with a twinge of exhaustion in your voice, “Why did {insert latest remedy} work for so and so but not for me??” |
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