God = Healer
To be honest, I really didn’t ever think I’d reach the day where I got to write this post. As you all know, I’ve been dealing with chronic health issues for many years at this point. The most frustrating symptom I’ve had is persistent and pretty extreme pain in my back, neck, shoulder and a lot of other little weird spots too. I’ve been doing ALL OF THE THINGS which you can read about in earlier posts. This week, I had the craziest experience working with the person who has been doing myofascial release and energy healing work with me. She is a Christ-follower and I’ve really come to trust her and what she does. It’s true that the body stores soooo much information. As someone who is really in tune with my body, I’ve always known that to be true, but on Monday, I really saw that in action. I’m going to share just some of what I learned this week from my body. Some of the details I’m going to leave out because they are for me and God to work out and people who are close to me have heard all about it LOL. The other stuff I feel more comfortable sharing, so here we go!
She worked on various parts of my body on Monday, mostly in my hips and shoulder. Some of the tension that has been stored in my hips has been rapidly improving since starting this. The part I’m going to focus on here is the work she did on my left shoulder. She started pressing into different parts of my shoulder and named some images she was seeing and I spoke to some of those. We specifically got to some trauma I had experinced which lead to a sudden turning away from faith (and then later a sudden turning back to faith). After a few moments, the tension in my shoulder totally released. I’m writing this as I’m 48 hours out from our session and I woke up with little to no shoulder tension, back or neck pain. It’s unreal. This has been like yearrrrrrrrrssssss in the making and I didn’t think we would see this day. I certainly give a ton of credit to all of the amazing doctors and healers and guides and mentors I’ve worked with along this journey. They’ve all played a role. I don’t look at this as one person’s success necessarily, but a culmination of a lot of things. But more than all of those people, I am looking to the God who created these healers, who put them in the path of my life, who got me connected to them, and who opened up my heart and mind and body for healing to take place. It’s WILD. My friends will tell you that I was freaking losing my mind in the hours after I saw her because I was in utter disbelief and sooooo much joy. I feel like I’m getting my life back.
By no means does it mean that everything is perfect and we give up on everything that I’ve been doing, but I feel like something was seriously unlocked earlier this week. It feels like the floodgates of healing opened in my body and soul and I’m pumped about it. Over the weekend, I was sharing with a group in my Spiritual Direction cohort that I wanted to accept God’s generosity towards me and let it be for me. Today, I’m praising God for His generosity, faithfulness and care for me. I feel like I’m stepping into a season of answered prayers that I have been longing for. God is such a good God.
