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Soul Healing with Ann Smets
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In this episode of Something’s Brewing, I sit down with holistic healer Ann Smets for a conversation that feels both deeply personal and profoundly necessary.
This one is for anyone who has ever felt confused by their own body—when symptoms don’t neatly fit into a diagnosis, when emotions feel tangled and overwhelming, and when stress quietly but powerfully reshapes the way the body functions.
We explore how emotional struggles don’t just live in the mind—they imprint themselves on the nervous system, the gut, the heart, the breath. How chronic stress can become a kind of drug: altering physiology, disrupting regulation, and convincing us that survival mode is “normal.”
Ann brings grounded wisdom to the often hard-to-understand relationship between emotional pain and physical symptoms. Together, we talk about:
- How unprocessed emotions manifest physically
- Why stress isn’t just mental—it’s biochemical
- The body’s intelligence when words fall short
- Holistic healing as a return to safety, not something to “fix”
- Why slowing down can feel terrifying when you’ve lived in control and hyper-vigilance
This episode isn’t about quick answers or spiritual bypassing. It’s about listening—to the body, to patterns, to signals we’ve learned to ignore because they didn’t make logical sense.
If you’ve ever wondered why healing feels nonlinear, why regulation can feel unsafe, or why your body reacts before your mind catches up—this conversation is for you.
Because sometimes what’s brewing isn’t a breakdown.
It’s the body asking, finally, to be heard.
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Transcript
Introduction and Anne's Background
00:00:00
Speaker
Thanks for being on Something's Brewing with me. Thank you for the invite. Absolutely. Yeah. I'm excited to have, you know, just another coffee talk conversation about mental health, wellness in general, and where community coffee and conversation. You reached out to me on LinkedIn and it was great to have a connection and to,
00:00:21
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ah meet somebody else who's doing a lot of important work in the wellness space. So I'd love for you to introduce yourself and, you know, we'll kick it off from there. Sure. Yes.
00:00:33
Speaker
Thank you for having me, Laura. So yeah, I'm Anne Smets. I'm originally born and raised in Belgium, but soon after coming on to planet Earth, I did feel that i and well initially it was like, do I belong here? There must be more.
00:00:51
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kind of feeling. And back in the 70s, I was born in 70, a lot of my schoolmates, they were not like, go travel and explore the world. So I was always a bit the different one.
00:01:06
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And after graduation, I started to travel, explore the world. And that also led me into ah my first profession, which was more in tourism and hospitality.
00:01:17
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um which really ignited, i would call it old wisdom that I've always carried, but that was kind of... not clear when in my first years of growing up in Belgium with my parents although I must say i was very fortunate that my parents whenever we had something always approached it holistically and so we had a ah garden full of herbs and I remember when I had growing pains that was specifically in my knees
00:01:52
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or age 12, I believe, my dad took me to an acupuncturist instead of conventional medicine. And so i'm very grateful because that really was an amazing foundation for me later to explore more um on also the power of herbs and plants in our healing aspect.
Discovering Holistic Healing
00:02:12
Speaker
And with my free time that I had during my career in tourism, winter times were free, I started traveling to Southeast Asia. And I did also follow the teacher training course, yoga in India, Kerala, where I also got introduced to Ayurvedic healing and then soon after travel more East, where I really got introduced to traditional Chinese medicine and and diverse healing methods, the universal Tao healing system.
00:02:48
Speaker
And that was like, Yeah, a homecoming for me. Oh, I love that. Yeah, and every course, every book i've opened I opened, I read it and I could give a lecture about it. So that to me then started to know like, I think I should do something with this. Yeah, you think? And that's how and i'm I really shifted my career and became now a full-time professor holistic health, multidimensional energy healer, because throughout the course of taking courses and working with people, which are also my biggest teachers, i was able to evolve my own awakening and and and get from, yeah, deeper and deeper knowledge. And it's amazing. And it will be an ongoing path until my last breath here on earth. So I love now,
00:03:46
Speaker
helping people just as a guide, holding space for their own healing at whatever level they are at the moment. So yeah, there's always space for growth.
Holistic Lifestyle and Methods
00:03:59
Speaker
Always. And there's so many dimensions of growth that you've just even laid out, just the holistic side from the foundation of your parents, you know, setting you up with herbs in the garden and acupuncture and did you feel that it felt it followed you through your life or was there like oh my parents just did this and then it sparked later for you um no it followed me through and and the more I became independent the more I kind of choose a lifestyle that was more, of course, in my my ah my youth years, I did all the crazy stuff as well. I had a lot of fun. I had the parties and all that. It goes in stages, right?
00:04:41
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But um it always was a part of my lifestyle. And and now it it it it's 100%. There was a time, obviously, where yeah but fun and and and going out and friends and all that is more important. It's also part of of discovering who you are.
00:04:59
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and and and definitely important. But yeah, no, it's just, yeah, I breathe and live that lifestyle. yeah There's so many directions that I want to take this, but I think the first step is for you to help other people maybe understand the definition of what you do. How would you describe it to somebody else?
00:05:20
Speaker
Yeah, it's a great question. So i would describe my way of working twofold. So on the one hand, my foundation lies in the traditional Chinese medicine, where we look at a human being of a multidimensional, different layers of of being.
00:05:41
Speaker
So we're not just our physical, how I would call it, body suit, but we're much more than that. We have a energy bodies as well. So emotional, mental, physical, spiritual, and karmic.
00:05:56
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And by understanding that we're all interconnected, so with the cosmos universe, but also with the earth, our planet, our home, we kind of zoom out and we look at a greater picture.
00:06:13
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of where the trigger is, the root cause of what we what we call in the West disease, I rather call it a disbalance. So that's the the point of view from Chinese medicine. We're always going to look at the course.
00:06:29
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And from there, we're going to start to bring balance again. So actually in traditional Chinese medicine, we're successful when our patient doesn't come back because that means, you know, it's here. Absolutely.
00:06:43
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I mean, I think most most healthcare care providers would want that, right? Yes, exactly.
Spiritual and Energy Work
00:06:49
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um And then with that cause, the other side of me is is the very spiritual aspect where I'm very much connected with source, with all that is.
00:07:01
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So we're gonna a multi-dimensional energy healing where we really go and clear out, would call it the the heavy programs that don't serve us anymore in ourselves.
00:07:16
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So i my teacher describes it as the humans, we are bio computers. And oftentimes with heavy programs that don't serve us anymore from either this this lifetime or past lives that we bring up, or even that we take on from the collective consciousness.
00:07:37
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Because if we are a high sensitive human being, which now in the world we're more and more, we easily take that on without even consciously being aware of that.
00:07:49
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So with the help, we can start clearing that because what it does, it takes us away from our essence, our soul. And to me, all this balance, disease, emotional, physical, all comes from stagnant energy, very often triggered by emotions that we haven't processed And so so it's important to do the clearing, the energy work, so that we go layer by layer, clearing that out of the cells DNA memory even, so that we can raise our frequency, which a higher frequency is a healthy, happy, joyful life.
00:08:33
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But we need to also, at the other way, be able, our body needs to be able to hold and integrate these new high frequencies.
00:08:44
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So if we don't work on the body as well, the container is full still with the old debris, let's call it. It can't keep that new energy. So we need to work on both on the spiritual side and the physical side.
00:09:03
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and And the physical side is really where the universal healing Taoist system works magnificent because we're really going to clear out stagnant energy in all our vital organs and also bring back our life force energy.
00:09:22
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And so the two together, that to me is is the golden key to transformation, spiritual growth, and to find your own soul again.
00:09:33
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And then we have joy, happiness, and health, abundance all together. sounds like It sounds like a dream come true for so many people. um Yeah.
00:09:44
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How did you define soul? So um to me, soul... is part of all what is. So it ah so long could be a long explanation, but if we look at it, it's bit like quantum physics.
00:09:59
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So but we, everything is energy, existence, it is humans, plants, animals, everything is is frequency and energy that once started from what we would call the big bang from the universe as particles. So we all part of those particles.
00:10:18
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um And soul is a part of that particle that either stays in other universes or decides I want to learn my lessons. I'm going to incarnate on planet Earth. okay And then the way I would describe planet Earth is as ah it's a great school.
00:10:38
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And so everybody walking on this planet is actually a very brave soul because they volunteer to come and learn lessons again. And at the greater picture for how I would see it is to serve for the greater good of evolution. Right. Humanity, but even also planetary and on the bigger picture, universal.
00:11:02
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So, okay that yeah. That makes sense. And I think, so it sounds like we've complicated a lot of it for ourselves. Yeah. in ah In a way, right? Like yeah with emotions, lack thereof, just understanding how to process things, um forgetting the larger picture of the soul purpose.
00:11:23
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Yeah, it's unconscious and it's not nobody's fault. i mean, that's one thing we we should never point fingers to either ourselves. Absolutely. But basically what happens is that...
00:11:36
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what It's almost it's like wiring neural networks in our Asian brain and lifetime after the lifetime. There has been so many um programming, which was fight or flight scarcity. And we still carry these neural networks in the Asian brain.
00:11:55
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where now we got so long disconnected from once humanity was super connected. If we look at Lemuria time era Atlantis, the pre-Egypt, the ancient Egyptians.
00:12:11
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They were super connected with the cosmos, with all that was, but throughout we got disconnected. So now actually what happens if you would also talk to astrologers, they they would say exactly that is what I learned is that the planet Earth has now shifted into that higher 5D frequency reality.
00:12:33
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And now humanity is invited to follow. so that we create back that peace, that love on earth that we once as humans experienced in Atlantis Lemurian time era and so on.
00:12:48
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So it's a wonderful time to be alive on earth and it's super exciting. um And then yeah, I'm very grateful to be part of that. I can see it in your face. I love it. um You're just smiling ear to ear. Did something in your life happen where you started to dive into this work? Or is this just a natural evolution for you from when you were little and where the universe has led you or both?
00:13:16
Speaker
I think it's both. And I think we all have in our lives moments that are like wake up calls or or pushes to go. For me, I would say the biggest shift came when I was 21 years old where I suddenly lost my first boyfriend, my first love, who suddenly passed in a car crash.
00:13:40
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And that to me was the first steps that I took into starting to read books. That was actually teacher in class who handed over a book to me about life after death.
00:13:52
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Oh, wow. Thanks to that, because he saw he recognized my grief and he had also so recently lost his wife. So he just handed me the book without any further explanation. i'm ever so grateful for this teacher.
00:14:06
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And yeah from that, but my search was like, of course, this that this is and explained because, of course, you then recall dreams or experiences, maybe after the experience, soon after I had an outer body experience for the first time.
00:14:22
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So yeah, then you you start to remember all that wisdom that's actually already within all of us, because we I'm sure we all carry this huge potential of of of memory, but it's just, it needs guidance and and awakening again. And so that was the first step that that took us.
00:14:46
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put me back on on my path, I would say. yeah Interesting, interesting.
Personal Tragedy and Spiritual Exploration
00:14:51
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And then you ended up across seas and having all these trainings and putting it all together. What would you say somebody would look for within themselves if they were looking and wondering if this work would be applicable to them?
00:15:06
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I think if you would just be listening to our conversation, if that sparks an interest, like, oh yeah, I would like to learn more or I know that there is a different way for my healing, whatever situation rather than just um do the conventional way.
00:15:26
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um That would be a trigger. You always, I feel like people I work with are automatically drawn. it It's again, it's energy. like how I'm drawn to it. That's why I asked. Like I'm definitely drawn to it.
00:15:40
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For me, we're all soul aligned and our f frequency is matching. That's kind of what it is. It's like finding the radio station, you know, when your radio is crashing and suddenly you've got that right station, that's that right match of frequency.
00:15:56
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that I feel that's how it works on both ways for me with clients, but also for me with my teachers, because It's a lovely, ah we teach each other and we grow together as as humanity and that's so beautiful.
00:16:12
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move So if you were, i know last time when we first spoke, I told you a little bit about things that I had gone through and we were looking at. If, you know, to paint a picture for people who might be listening, I myself who knows suppressed emotions has caused ulcerative colitis has caused a lot of other physical symptoms, um as well as dealing with anxiety and depression for a lot of my life.
00:16:38
Speaker
Where's a place that you might start with me? You mentioned finding the core of something. How do you find that core and where do you build from there?
Healing Approach and Life Changes
00:16:46
Speaker
Yes, so, well, first of all, it's already by having that conversation and by talking to you, I would ask a few more questions about both going back to childhood, but also lifestyle, et cetera.
00:17:02
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But the key words that you already mentioned, the triggers is for me, a longstanding um both mental and physical stagnation.
00:17:16
Speaker
right because um we call our gut our second brain. So there's a constant connection between the brain and the gut. And so if you have multi-layered brain infections, that then goes into a bigger stage. It's a vicious circle that also brings this alarm fightf flight to the brain.
00:17:40
Speaker
and the nervous system. yeah i you know it's It's suppressed, it's it's even not guilt, shame, all that as well, because they just all start to communicate with one another.
00:17:53
Speaker
So um it would be a nice journey. I could give suggestions, obviously, for self-care. And we need to work on also the vagus nerve, the vagus nerve, which is our longest nerve, which also... how it resides in the belly.
00:18:12
Speaker
So belly work in itself is extremely healing also for overactive mental health, for stress, for anxiety, depression, and so on. But on an emotional level, we'll look at clearing all those layers.
00:18:28
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which will probably also be laying in the kidneys, in the liver. So all the organs will will come to the party and work on that. So, and then and what I usually do, well, first of all, i would i know that you would say, okay, when I come to you, you want to work on yourself. That's the first step I want change.
00:18:52
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right and And I'm going to really also put effort in. um And it may be that I give you the suggestions to either drink more water, change your diet and do daily exercises.
00:19:06
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But I'll never tell you, you have to, these are suggestions. And then it's, what do I do with this in order to, that's gonna define your shift and your healing and becoming, have this amazing life. Because I know for a fact, all of us have the potential for greatness in us and joy and happiness and abundance.
00:19:30
Speaker
It's how we embrace it. And and i know I'm a big fan fan of micro steps of change. So not the whole program at once, but little steps, like little exercises for self care to calm the nervous system. Could be breathing, could be cell massage, could be and exercises.
00:19:55
Speaker
there's There's so many. And from there, we would then definitely do also the energy healing to really start clearing out those layers of of baggage from within in the in the so in the cells, DNA level, and slowly shift the lifestyle.
00:20:14
Speaker
And that's, yeah, that's kind of how we can make a big, and you will find that very often you might also be off track, let's say work-wise, that you find that job-wise you're not really in your soul's alignment. So you'll find your purpose.
00:20:34
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um You might want to change where you live, or who you socialize with, you know, and big changes will happen in your life. And of course, there will still it will still be a bumpy ride.
00:20:47
Speaker
But eventually, we will also learn how we deal with pain or anger. and And we shift a lot more so that it won't affect us anymore and sit and reside in us so that it will get us off balance and get back to disease again. So that's the the idea behind it.
00:21:10
Speaker
Interesting. it's so It's so fascinating to me how multidimensional, but also dare I use the word kind of simple at the end of the day of just energy, right?
00:21:21
Speaker
Like yeah we've all become very complex in how we approach things and no one's really taught this from the beginning. Absolutely. And not I find it' it's all it is. If we just reminded again by even the power of Aromatherapy, essential oils. I don't know if you use them already at home. have. I have not been consistent with many of these modalities, which I think is part of the problem.
00:21:51
Speaker
but Yeah. I mean, that that is just, that that's that's antibiotics in the bottle, but natural. I mean, I have a whole like cabinet full of just oils. And when I feel a cold coming up, I'll i'll get my oil out.
00:22:08
Speaker
So there's so much we can do, simple things. And and it's just back to nature, like our ancestors. You have yeah the native Indians. We have the shamans. We have the the Amazonian shamans. We have the the in India, Ayurveda, herbalism in in China.
00:22:28
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our Our ancestors, all they did was Nature was like that their apothecary and their pharmacy. And basically, ironically, all our chemical medication now all comes from formulas from nature. So it's just chemically copied.
00:22:47
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But in in essence, it's it's plant medicine. So there's so much that we can do. it Just yeah being reminded, basically, and and informed again.
Cultural Perspectives on Holistic Practices
00:22:58
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yeah Right. Yeah, i was going to say uninformed. And it's interesting to me, me being in Connecticut, and you being, you know, across the way and every place that you have mentioned has not been in the States. And I wonder if you notice a difference culturally and geographically with issues, maybe you've worked with people in all areas of the world. And if there's any differences ah geographically that you've noticed.
00:23:22
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Oh, yes, very much so. and also, I actually i used to live in the US as well for almost two years. I lived in Asia, um i'm obviously from Central Europe. So we are, we are different. I feel that On the one hand, like for your area in the US, there is the two groups. There are the people that are very open to holistic healing, of very connected, and actually a lot more interest than I have in my own country, for instance. We are so stagnant in this old medieval Catholic mindset that for ah for a Belgian,
00:24:06
Speaker
promote energy healing and so ah you know um so there's that but then on the other hand the US is also a market where you can go to the supermarket and buy all the medication you need at hand ah whereas here we need a prescription for for most of it or we need at least to go to a pharmacy to get aspirin it's never oh wow i didn't know that okay yeah so there's this these extremes um which is very interesting and i find well in germany for instance people are very connected to the nature and even doctors will prescribe
00:24:48
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the thermal baths, which is the water that comes straight out of the earth with all its minerals and elements that help in in healing either arthritis or organ, kidney dysfunction especially.
00:25:05
Speaker
So they'll get prescriptions to go into the baths and do their exercises there and all that. So that I find amazing. They have a lot of organic shops, which are at good prices.
00:25:18
Speaker
like here in Belgium, our organic food is so much more expensive. And that's what I noticed in the States as well. I think it has very much to do also with the economical circle yeah you you're coming in you're in. So yeah, a lot of variables that will but but that will define that definitely.
00:25:40
Speaker
Yeah, I've also noticed that um there is a little bit of, I think doubt and unknown about the spiritual side of things for people. So oftentimes it is kind of the quick fix of a medication that could help versus changing something or believing in a, you know, energy or something that nobody can tangibly see.
00:26:03
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um So I often wonder about that, but I believe, and I don't know if you do every ailment that someone goes through has some sort of deeper core,
00:26:16
Speaker
right, energetically or whatever it is that can be solved through some of this work. Would you say that's true? Absolutely, totally agree with you. For me, any disease or or emotion is a wake-up call, a trigger run. It's your soul actually pulling your hair. It's time to wake up and reconnect. That's basically how I see it.
00:26:42
Speaker
um I was like able to heal myself from, first of all, thyroiditis, hypothyroiditis, I think you call it in English. Hypothyroidism, yeah. And then migraines.
00:26:56
Speaker
And just by going inside and listening to yourself and your body, that takes time, of course. That's not happening overnight. And that's like you said, that's the issue, a quick fix. The world is free. Everything's so fast. Everything is a touch of a button, everything quick fix.
00:27:16
Speaker
But it takes time. and And this is for me, yeah, I started the journey at 21. 55 now. So it's ongoing. But it's so beautiful. and And when you really finally overcome these things and don't come back because we can take quick fixes, but every medication will have a side effect.
00:27:36
Speaker
So you may be healed now from, I don't know, bronchitis, but then after a while, you your your liver starts to speak up because it's out of balance because of too much medication.
00:27:50
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or or the gut as well, that those are really suffering so much from all the pills and medication that that we would take, especially on a prolonged period. I'm not saying sometimes it's necessary, but there's so much that we can do in a holistic approach.
00:28:10
Speaker
It's just a matter of, yeah, wanting to try it for yourself.
Chronic Health Issues and Holistic Solutions
00:28:14
Speaker
But there's a lot of people I work with also with chronic disbalances. We just remove the labels, you know, it's not you are not your CVS or your IBS or whatever they call it. Right. And that's where, as somebody who did not resonate with having ulcerative colitis, to me, it was it was a wake-up call of something is going on and I've been dealing with mental and emotional imbalances, I'll say, struggles for 20 years of my life.
00:28:47
Speaker
So my body kind of finally... I guess reached its tipping point of wake up and do something. And I think I'm still in the throes of what do I, how do I do this? You know, what do I do?
00:29:00
Speaker
And you try to find the best, the best how to the best solution, not knowing me as somebody who's not trained in some of this stuff. I don't know how to approach it, but I know that it's taking medication and having and identifying with this is not me and not what I want for the rest of my life.
00:29:19
Speaker
Yeah, you you hit the nail on the head, you say that we reached a tipping point. And exactly that, it it takes years to come to that stage. And it's a buildup of situations, emotions.
00:29:33
Speaker
And whenever something happens throughout our life, especially when the immune system is a bit low, those emotions are cannot be digested. and And especially if we are a personality that rather push it down because that's what we learned maybe from our parents grandparents school whatever that's how it happens and that's exactly um what what i see over and over again and and for you the awareness there must be something is already an indication that your soul is awake and and and
00:30:08
Speaker
old memories starting to come up from there is a way that I can get out of it. It's just the finding the right guides to to get you there. That's it. Yeah. Yeah.
00:30:19
Speaker
Do you have like a ah story that resonates with you as something that like a one that you like to share with people and the power of the healing? but There are many of them. I think it's important to know that everybody is on its path um on different levels.
00:30:38
Speaker
And some people will take quick leaps and bounds to almost like awakening. I have now working with a client as a new program I launched it called Temple School. It's like an initiation to your soul's awakening.
00:30:55
Speaker
And we're in week three and this lady... she's opened up her channels, she's getting messages through, so she's really reconnected with her purpose in life, but then others, that might take longer, but the awareness of I'm on the right path and maybe ah my my change is not so vast, but suddenly I sleep a lot better, it's very often a reaction from healings, and that is
00:31:29
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It might not seem so important to you, but sleep is so crucial for our organs to rejuvenate and to heal overnight and also for our nervous system. So all these little disbalances, what we take for granted, like, oh yeah, I, you know, um I'm always up between one and three every night and and you just think that's normal, but that is a clear indication that it's like it's liver time, it's out of balance or something is off here. We can work on that so that you get a solid six, seven hours sleep and you'll feel much better. Right. um
00:32:08
Speaker
chronic fatigue that's like for myself when I had the hypothyroidist my doctor said oh yeah this is your the medication and I asked so how long do I need to take this then and the answer was that's for life and then I walked out of the office it's like no way and i I didn't even start the medications and there must be other way and that's how I got into aromatherapy and i'm just saying okay yeah certified myself and basically healed my balanced the thyroid again with essential oils I mean yeah it's just wow that's incredible i I would love to have the knowledge and I see all of these this type of podcast and learning from you as just adding to my toolkit of different pieces that I can pull on i mean I've already
00:33:04
Speaker
you know, I don't want to take medication the rest of my life. I've realized that there's imbalances. I think there are very small changes that need to be made over time, like you said. But for, you know, somebody who's listening, who's like, what would I even do to get started? What would you say to somebody as like, even if they weren't working with somebody, but just a step they can take on their own to see the power of YZ in their life?
Daily Practices for Holistic Well-being
00:33:32
Speaker
Yeah, well, I got a very useful course that I offer on my website at very low cost, but it's called From Caterpillar to Butterfly.
00:33:44
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And I accumulated 21 days of one minute hacks each day that will help you shift your daily lifestyles. and we approach the different aspects or layers of our being, the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual. So each week is ah is a package of little exercises and just try it out and see what resonates with me.
00:34:11
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um And also, do I rather do breath work if meditation may not be my thing? um Do I like to go for walks? Do I start jogging?
00:34:22
Speaker
is it the combination of right there is not one formula but just also what makes you happy I think that's the biggest for step one just go inside and feel what makes me happy um and it i I strongly doubt that it would only be ah watch TV and eat a bag a bag of potato chips. you know i I don't think that true happiness will bring you that, but rather maybe after dinner, go for a walk in the forest on the beach with the dog. How do I feel? Start so to recognize how you feel after doing things or eating such such things.
00:35:04
Speaker
And then your own wisdom will will tell you just listen more to yourself as as opposed to try to figure it out with the mind and it's not an easy that thing to do yeah that's the trick I was gonna say as you were talking I was like i live 99% of my day and my head and I think that's part of my problem so when you say listen ah in my head it's listen to my thoughts which are just always steered me wrong so yeah yeah what are we listening to
00:35:36
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Here we might need some guidance. ah How can we shift back from that mind monkey mind, how my teacher called it, to the heart space and the gut. And and that's a process, but it's beautiful.
00:35:52
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when you start to finally have days where you feel like, oh, it's so quiet in my head. It it is. Oh, I would love that. That's 35 hours. It's possible, yeah. Having conversations like this only adds more insight for me and awareness for me.
00:36:07
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and you know, I'm somebody who definitely will follow up with you as to maybe even working together and seeing what steps and tips I can get from you to figure out ways that I can work closer and closer to some progress for myself. and anybody else out there who resonates just between headaches to serious chronic and conditions looking internally right we don't look internally ever we're not aware of that exactly or even knowing that i'm not even not satisfied with the job for instance um for me it it gives me goosebumps i
00:36:44
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It was during lockdown where I was doing a little bit of kind of an office job because that was the only thing really available at the moment. Hearing people, I don't know if it's in the US, maybe not so much because you inspire me. The the the Americans are a lot more active in a lot later age in in their life. But here in Europe, after 50, people start to count down for retirement.
00:37:12
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And then it's like, Yeah. ah Oh, another 15 years. That's the the topic ah but around the coffee station. And that just makes cringe.
00:37:23
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and Yeah, like my husband and I, we're both 55. We have massive plans still for the future of how we want to progress with our projects and our life and work and helping people, you know, for the greater good of all.
00:37:37
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So it's often these mind shifts as well. And when we start doing that, I also, I'm not a believer in that, like for me, um'm I'm post-menopause, that people say, oh after 50, it's all downhill, you get heavier, you'll get less mobile, everything starts to ache. No, it's not true.
00:38:01
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Right, that's a stereotype. it's It's all these stereotypes, all these beliefs that we just take on for granted. I'm like, no, start that thinking and feeling for yourself. What is it what you want with your life? You know, that's so important.
00:38:17
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Yeah. So as we wrap up, what is your typical day look like? So how are you caring for yourself these days? Yeah, I very much. Oh, I love sleep. I must admit. Me too.
00:38:30
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Yeah. Comes 10 p.m. I'm in bed. and And then when I wake up, the first thing i will start with is some breath work because breath work is very important also to calm the nervous system. For me also, my nervous system is very active, so I have to consciously work on that. So I'll start with breath work in the morning.
00:38:53
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um And then when I get out of bed, next to my bed, I'll do some Qigong exercises, just shaking the body, loosening it up. So what it does, it brings your chi, your life force energy awake again because it's all stagnant when we sleep and stiff. okay And then I'll do some push-ups that to keep strength as well. Nice, okay. Yeah, and then um drink two ah two glasses of water.
00:39:22
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First thing, because we're dehydrated when we wake up. Our organs really work overnight as well. So we lose we yeah we we sweat, we lose hydration. So we dehydrate.
00:39:35
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And then oh ah warm water with half a lemon. This is very good to balance your alkalinity, acidity. That's kind of um the morning routine and having a shower. And then it depends on my schedule. I love being my own boss. It gives me a lot more freedom.
00:39:53
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because freedom for me is a great, it's very important in life. So being able to create my own day. But when I start work, I will always do a little ritual, connect with my spirit guides, ancestors and so forth.
00:40:08
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Energetically, that's also part of of the daily routine. And going outside, walks or a run, connect with nature is also part of the daily routine. So that's kind of on an average, the balance and then it can vary.
00:40:27
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And then before falling asleep, I will always list at least five things I'm grateful for. Gratitude is one of the very high frequencies. And one tip I would love to share with everybody here Every day i make a vow to myself and it's like this. Today will act, speak and think in alignment with the frequency of pure love.
00:40:55
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Because pure love is the highest frequency. It's it's God's frequency. And when we set that intention, we get a lot less out of balance when things come our way that day.
00:41:08
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And in the beginning, it will happen that in the afternoon, it's wobbly again. But then again, set that intention, make that vow to yourself, to your soul. And that's such a powerful tool that really has shifted me over the last, night I've only started doing a couple of months ago, but it's really shifted me to another.
00:41:29
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I love that. I mean, the word that keeps coming to mind is just awareness, right? It's like pause and a awareness and pausing, right? and yeah And so often people are just in service of others versus in service of themselves. I was going to say, go from the external, turn it back to internal.
00:41:50
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And always start by first looking after yourself. Here I take the example of the airplane, the old-fashioned safety. The mask, yeah. With the mask. But it's it's it's a life rule.
00:42:04
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It just applies for everyone in life once you start. And that's probably the hardest for everyone is to start first loving yourself. Yeah. And and care about yourself. It's a huge lesson we have to re-educate ourselves. um And that's a lot we'll work on also with clients.
00:42:23
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And once we get that, it ripples out and you your family will change, your friends, everything will change for the better. But start within yourself. Yeah.
00:42:34
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Oh, it's a
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00:42:35
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great way to end. And Anne, thank you so much for joining the podcast today. if people are wanting to reach out to you, where can they reach out to you? um Either on the website, maybe you can mention it with the podcast. So it's www.soul.com.
00:42:52
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sdara.com or instagram it's at solestara 22 wonderful i'm gonna go follow you too thank you so much and i look forward to hopefully having you back on at some point soon would be lovely and thank you for sharing the love with the world with the podcast absolutely you you did it i just facilitated so thank you thank you very much bye bye