[columnize] “The Truth about our childhood is stored up in our body, and although we can repress it, we can never alter it. Our intellect can be deceived, our feelings manipulated, our perceptions confused, and our body tricked with medication. But some day the body will present its bill, for it is as incorruptible as a child who, still in spirit, it will accept no compromises or excuses, and it will not stop tormenting us until we stop evading the truth.” -Alice Miller

Science has now proven that we are all energy. Einstein showed this truth with his mathematical equation of E=MC2. Through our unique system of charkas, our energy is in constant motion. This aids in homeostasis. When energy becomes stagnant, homeostasis cannot take place. Our own bodies and souls are EXCELLENT healers, and when we give them the tools AMAZING changes take place. Energy work is just one of the tools to bring about MIRACLES!

I still remember 16 years ago when I first started making healthier lifestyle changes. The first choice I made was to birth my babies at home. Four years later, I decided it was time to change my diet. I wholeheartedly believed, at that time, that a shift in my diet was ALL I needed to gain the vitality I’d been looking for. Even though I received vast healing in my physical body, my emotional body still suffered.

In fact, I found the MORE raw foods I ate, the MORE emotional issues would arise. It felt a bit oxymoronic to feel so vibrant on the physical level and then have a plethora of emotions arise I had never even felt before. At first, I didn’t understand how to handle this or even what to do about it. Then I met a women who is a very GIFTED emotional healer who helped me to recognize how my emotions played a POWERFUL role in my overall health and well being. She mentored and taught me of the importance of routine emotional healing work especially in conjunction with a raw foods diet. Raw foods and emotional work….together, with an expansion of spirit, created far reaching changes I never imagine possible.

Soon thereafter, I vigorously entered the birth world only to learn the effects of our personal birth experience on our perspectives of the world around us. I learned how certain birth practices, routines and protocols can and do play into a limbic brain imprinting. Once the imprinting is defined, if it is NOT the true and everlasting LOVE we were expecting, we then spend the rest of our lives striving to shift our negative belief patterns and comfort zone to a true understanding of what real love and affection truly look like.

“According to William Emerson’s 1995 study published in the Journal of Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology and Health, in the United States a staggering 95% of births are traumatic, 45% are rated as “severe damage” and 50% considered “moderate” trauma.” -Elena Tonetti-Birth Into Being

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But our birth experiences definitely don’t have to be this way. We have the ability to shift, modify and let go of past baggage that then seeps into our pregnancy/birth environment only to create unconscious complications. These complications, I believe, can be thwarted through education and understanding of limbic imprinting and our own emotional/spiritual pain, hurt and even traumas we are storing in our systems/bodies.

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My insights and inspirations grew on how I could help myself and my clients create a ecstatic birth experience by working out their own birth traumas. I must admit, I was quite taken back at the level of pain, sorrow, hurt, resentment, anger and heartache we carry over the lack of proper care that was taken in our behalf as we entered the world. I don’t think anyone is to blame for the pain we carry. I believe all our parents truly did their VERY best!

But the effects of our birth experience DO effect our choices in the creation of our pregnancy and birth with our children….whether conscious or unconscious. I believe it is of upmost importance for the new generation to be born bathed in LOVE and JOY so their limbic imprinting is defined by nothing other than that. I believe the effects of our birth experience are why are world is so upside down and backwards in many, many ways. (Thank you Matt and Angela for the videos of Elena)

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When I first starting working with myself emotionally, it was difficult to understand how I might go about releasing negative thought patterns, release the lies that are/were holding me back and rebirth myself into the person I know I truly am. This paragraph opened a door of many realizations of what emotional health really looks like.

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“Mastering our emotions doesn’t mean ignoring and disowning them. It means acknowledging and allowing them without identifying with them. It’s very good to have our feelings, it adds colors and flavors to our life, but still, they are just that-our feelings, they are not us. We are having them, not becoming them. We are much bigger and stronger than our feelings. Being emotional does not mean being a basket case. Emotions only fly out of hand when they were suppressed for too long. That’s when it becomes scary to open that Pandora’s Box and it’s easier to just stay in our heads. That’s how we got there in the first place.

“Healthy emotional life is not scary. It only means that mental activity has to yield its domineering position and become and equal partner in that beautiful trio-mind, body and spirit.”-Elena Tonetti

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Daily emotional work through the form of personal responsibility for my thoughts, feelings and actions completely shifted the way I saw the world and even myself. The combination of raw foods and striving to master my emotions created a BLISS and a CONSCIOUSNESS in my world that I didn’t even know existed. It opened a door into a reality of myself, my life and my world I have never even seen or even thought of before. After much research and experience into the world of emotional healing, I understood on a very deep level the positive and uplifting effects. I adore the way Elena describes it here.

“During the nine months of pregnancy a woman is in the position of co-creator of a whole new reality, of a brand new being. During those nine months a woman has an incredible window of opportunity to rekindle her spirit, to reset all her systems. Not that she doesn’t have that opportunity at all other times in her life, but during pregnancy, if she treats it with proper respect, she can achieve unbelievable results in a very short time. Dr. Charkovsky says that the level of enlightenment that a woman is able to reach during 9 months of pregnancy and childbirth is equivalent to approximately highly successful 20 years of ascetic practice for a male yogi disciple, if she chooses to seize the opportunity. This is because of the specific flexibility of all her systems, and hormonal and textural changes in her body during that time. Women who were able to dedicate this time to gaining self-confidence, recovering their power and learning to be comfortable in their bodies through releasing their own birth trauma reported experiencing ecstatic states of total bliss and oneness-with all during childbirth.” -Elena Tonetti

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I would have NEVER believe the quote above if I truly hadn’t experienced it myself in my birth with my last daughter. I do plan to experience an orgasmic birth with my next pregnancy and believe all forms of pleasure, bliss and ecstasy are at my disposal when I open myself to that space.

It is within reach for EVERY women to create and experience this. All she has to do is believe IT and then spend time everyday with herself finding ways to FEEL her emotional self like she never has before.

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There are many formats and modalities that I provide for the women I work with. Eleven years ago was when I very first started my journey to emotional health. Along the way, I have had many teachers and mentors who have defined my views and taught me the wisdom of working with the emotional/spiritual self. I am grateful and feel immensely blessed to be part of Elena’s Sentient Circle after attending her 10 day apprenticeship workshop. I not only left with my own restoration intact but also an understanding of how to utilize Elena’s techniques for healing. What a GIFT for myself and those who come for my support and help!

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Sweat lodges are a Native American healing modality that has been used for centuries by pregnant/birthing women. I have participated in dozens of lodges and each one shows up with a rebirthing of myself I never knew existed before. I have found the sweat lodge to be one of most POWERFUL spaces to heal birth trauma as you are reentering the womb of Mother Earth and asking for Divine guidance on your journey of self awareness and awakening.

Along the way, I have taken many courses for emotional healing and finally found a format that feels right for me. I believe it was Divinely gifted to me during an all night ceremony I attended. It is a visualization process where you connect on a very real and deep level with your Higher Self and the Divine. I feel my purpose in the work I do is only to bring you to your own innate knowing and wisdom. I help to facilitate you to gain insights and deductions about who you are, why you are here, and how you want to heal and find wholeness.

I recently added a new modality to my work that seems to be showing HUGE benefits for myself and moms, babies and families I work with. It is called “The Neural Pathway Integration Technique.” This is just another bonus in utilizing your innate wisdom to answer questions, solve life long problems, and heal underlying pain and hurt that you’ve carried for years.

For more information about me or the emotional healing work I do, please contact me at:
Rachel Talley
rachel@livingmom.net
801-623-2559

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