Many of us were not given the love and nurturing that we desired and deserved growing up. This lack of love burns a hole in us, making us create stories about not being enough and not mattering. Then we cover this aching pain, we stuff it down with food (or starve ourselves of affection/food), we drink it away to numb out, we learn to stop feeling our feelings, put others first and become professional resentment creators, manipulating others under the table to get what we want.
Stop it now. Take back your life. Empower yourself. Give yourself the love and nurturing that you missed as a child. You deserve it.
So many of us don’t believe that we deserve to be treated kindly, to be treated fairly, to trust ourselves, our intuition, thereby not trusting others. We exist from a place of “I’ve got this, if I want something done right, I have to do it myself.”
It’s time to reprogram your thinking. If you are reading this, it’s time. Start now. Take your limiting belief, and rewrite it. Go to your pain, allow yourself to burn, allow yourself to grieve, allow your sorrow.
And then, rewrite the story. Rewrite the beliefs. And read them everyday. It’s a choice. Are you ready to make the choice?
Louise Hay, one of my favorite leaders, started the affirmation movement with Melody Beattie. They were on to something. Affirmations are extremely powerful. And I could give them to you all day long… but YOU get to make them for yourself. YOU get to make affirmations that cause you to cry because they heal your pain from the inside out. And you can not access your healing without knowing your pain.
So, allow yourself to know yourself. Allow yourself to go to the parts that aren’t working. Allow yourself to admit to yourself that your children aren’t healthy, or you miss that family member that you stopped talking to, or that your relationship is broken, your finances, your integrity… whatever it is… start by admitting it. Allow you to know yourself, and then… allow yourself to be ok with the mess. Tell yourself it’s ok. Mother and nurture yourself, the way you needed to be mothered and nurtured. Hold yourself. Pet yourself. Kiss yourself.
Heather Hundhausen, a mind/body/spirit healer and facilitator, works with heart centered individuals who are ready to release their physical and emotional pain and reconnect their minds with their bodies so they can start living a life of passion and purpose. She assists people in making decisions in their lives by following their heart, mind, intuition and soul, from a place of being whole and in integrity.
With over fifteen years as a licensed massage therapist, Heather understands the connection between how someone's emotions can show up as physical pain. Using a variety of massage techniques, including neuromuscular therapy and structural realignment, she now does her ground breaking work by helping her clients to reach back through the pain and remember who they are to create wholeness and fullness.
During her years practicing traditional massage therapy, and while an intern working on her Masters Degree in Mental Health Counseling, she realized that people responded strongly when addressing their feelings and not just their thoughts. Working with this knowledge, she began to create an experiential environment for her clients, having them focus less on what they were thinking and more on what they were feeling. She discovered that when people began to release their emotions, they also released their physical pain. Heather is now passionate about helping people do just this so they hear their inner voice and then act upon their intuition so they create a new physical, mental and emotional life for themselves.
Heather’s authenticity, integrity, honor, commitment to her clients, and ability to create trust ensures that client's have a safe space to experience the exploration and release of their pain. Her clients say she is skilled at spiritual and emotional healing and is a great partner to have on the journey to contentment. As one particular client stated, “She opened my heart so the grief could emerge and then joy was able to fill that space.”
Heather is a popular speaker and workshop leader and facilitator, with one of her most popular workshops, “Connect on Purpose: Interpreting Your Body's Signals for Greater Wisdom and Empowerment” helping guide people to live their purpose, which Heather describes as “being able to take your talents and gifts and put them into action.” She is currently authoring a book and developing additional workshops, including a meditation group.
A licensed massage therapist, specializing in Thai Massage, Neuromuscular Therapy and Myo-skeletal Alignment Technique, she has a Masters Degree in Mental Health Counseling, is certified in Redirecting Children’s Behavior as a facilitator and coach.
