2 minute read
Emotional Healing & Tending Your (Inner) Garden
www.NorthgateLivingCA.com @NorthgateLivingCA #NorthgateLivingCA
By Katie Coelho, BA, ACN at Body Love Cafe
A multidimensional approach to healing looks at the integration of all aspects of health: Physical, Emotional, Mental, & Spiritual. While much focus is put on treating imbalances in the physical body (organ systems, toxins, pathogens, structural misalignment, nutrition & lifestyle), the key to holistic healing is to consider a person as a whole.
Known as the mind-body connection, these wellness components impact one another. This means that our thoughts, beliefs, feelings and attitudes can positively or negatively affect our biological functioning. Our minds are indeed very powerful. More so than ever in the history of time do we have teachers and leaders re-affirming this truth. Different schools of energy work (Meditation, Reiki, Sound & Color Therapy, Tai Chi) are rapidly gaining popularity in conjunction with traditional therapies to activate the body’s innate healing abilities. Incorporating a variety of energy healing modalities into your self-care practice paves the pathway to health.
We can think of energy healing for nourishing mental & emotional wellness like gardening. For local gardeners, March is the time to start planting seeds. From there you nurture your seedlings into the vision of a booming summer garden with your favorite varieties.
Do you have the tools to start your garden?
Have you prepared your soil?
Have you cleared your garden space?
Well, with all this love & care, what about your mental space?
As an avid gardener, part of garden prep is clearing the soft ground of what doesn’t serve. Tearing out plants, weeds, rocks and sometimes old sprinkler systems. Amending what exists to culture new life. It’s a time to build the vision of what you want to cultivate in the landscape while thinking about the foundation that plants need to really thrive.
As an Emotional Healing practitioner I get to do exactly that for patients’ lives. I love working with individuals of all ages to envision what they actually want to see, hear, feel and touch in their lives. Together, we prepare the foundation through releasing trapped emotions, ancestral trauma, and limiting beliefs. Another aspect is the uplifting process of Chakra Balancing, using the 5 senses (color therapy glasses, essential oils, tuning forks, and yes, even chanting). Chakra balancing is believed to promote health by maximizing the flow of energy in the body - much as the perfect combination of soil pH, sunlight, and water enable a garden to thrive. When your energetic body is aligned and unblocked, possibilities not only feel limitless but attainable!
The process of emotional energy healing involves working with a practitioner to identify what serves and what needs to fall away. What actually belongs to you and what might be inherited generationally or absorbed from media, society or the collective (un)conscious.
It’s always the right time of year to prepare the subconscious for the planting of truth, authenticity, light, hope and healing!
Katie Coelho’s passion for multi-dimensional healing inspired her to facilitate Emotional Wellness sessions at Body Love Cafe in Walnut Creek; working with patients to increase their energetic vibration & consciousness.
925-788-6300 3093 Citrus Cir. Ste. 125 Walnut Creek, CA 94598 www.BodyLoveCafe.com Team@BodyLoveCafe.com Across From Nob Hill Foods
