My Story: Pain as a Portal to Spiritual Growth

If you've been struggling with chronic pain, having tried all the things and nothing seems to work,

I know what that's like--I've been there too. For me, I had a lot of healing tools available as a former holistic bodyworker, and received care from some of the most skilled practitioners I knew, yet my chronic pain always seemed to linger.

It wasn't until I realized that my pain was a mirror of my life that I really started to listen to my body, and ultimately let it guide me out of pain, that I reached a place of lasting ease, relief and peace in my body and being.

This pivotal realization happened during the hardest year of my life. Back in 2021, all in one fell swoop, my busy chiropractic practice closed over a weekend, my long term relationship ended, and I was facing possible deportation from the US.

It was one of those tower moments where everything I had been working towards that felt so right at the time crumbled suddenly and I was left feeling completely confused and helpless.

And the stress of it all had my body in more pain than ever before.

I clearly remember this small voice I had inside of me amidst the chaos--it whispered, "go inwards and everything will be ok".

So with the combination of not knowing what else to do, and feeling too overwhelmed to deal with the outer circumstances, I trusted this guidance and made inner work my full time job.

Everything that was physical and material faded into the backdrop, including ignoring my pain, as I focused solely on facing myself from within. As I turned my focus inwards, I felt an opening up to Spirit--my intention was to face anything that I was shown about myself, whether internally, or mirrored by an external sign from the Universe.

I wanted to know why is this was happening to me. And with a lot of inner reflection and radical honesty, I did find the answer and it was completely not what I expected.

Looking back, I realize it was this openness and willingness to see my own reflection in anything within or around me, that led me to realize that my own body was already mirroring to me what I wished to know about the misalignments that created my reality.

I began this quest for answers to sort out my life, never expecting that it would have any effect on my body.

But one day, I noticed something really strange-- after about 3 months of doing the deep inner work to heal my wounds and correct patterns of behavior misaligned with my truth, like people pleasing, perfectionism and codependency...

My body felt different. I was literally standing differently--my flat spine developed normal curves, my flat feet developed arches, my bunions were reversing. My trigger points disappeared. I felt light and at ease in my body.

And that's when the insight hit me:

Physical alignment is a mirror for spiritual alignment.

The time I had spent studying and practicing as a chiropractor had prepared me for this moment. And everything seemingly falling apart also prepared me for this moment.

But I didn't stop there--I reversed engineered the process down to the details to see what other insight that my body had for me. And it turned out to be the exact guidance that I needed to get me back on my path.

I had a neck pain that was particularly bad during that time, and when I used the mirroring concept to try and understand what was being communicated to me, I realized that the details of this pain was the physical representation of my helplessness and passivity.

How I couldn't turn my head past a certain point...showing me how limited I felt in my range of motion (in life).

The sharp stabbing sensation...reflecting how I had been betraying myself through disempowering beliefs and behavior.

The way the pain would suddenly come on and I'd have to stop everything I was doing... mirroring how my life events paralyzed me from moving forward and allowed me to use "divine timing" as an excuse not to take action.

And when I acted on this wisdom of my body and treated it like spiritual guidance, everything started to work out for me straight away.

My pain healed that month, and I've been chronic pain free ever since.

I finally manifested the elusive US visa that I had failed to get approved two times prior, and had been waiting for over a year and half for.

I had this sense of deep trust in myself, my body and the universe.

And that is why I do what I do now. Pain is a funny thing...through this experience, and many others with myself and my clients, one thing I know for sure is that it is always serving you.

Healing your pain can be as ordinary and bothersome as you want it to be.

Or it can be as awe-some, magical and transformative as you want it to be.

I share this story because I know that there are other people out there who are experiencing this phenomenon of pain as a portal to your next awakening, but just don't know it yet or are not sure how to leverage the opportunity to grow.

It's really an honor for me to help you navigate this journey inside the Intuitive Pain Healing group program. The next round is opening up in July and I am really looking forward to seeing who steps into this magical container for healing.

If you feel called to find out more, click here to join the waitlist and I'll make sure to send you the details over the next few weeks!

Thank you for listening to my story and I hope it inspires you to open up to the connectedness and wholeness that is always available to you anytime.