How The Journey Began
My journey to BodyTalk has been nothing short of serendipitous. When I look back, it began its orchestration before I knew anything about energy or consciousness, or even paid attention to the coincidences in my life. The turning point came on a fateful day in the mid 1990’s after I had a minor car accidents that sidelined me for a day. That day, when I would normally have been at work, I received a call where I learned about the relief a dear friend of mine had experienced after taking a protocol of nutritional supplement for a very severe back problem. I had never heard of them before but couldn’t dispute the success she had experienced. That call began an adventure of education and study. Over the next few years I heard story after story of how people had overcome (sometimes very severe) health challenges using these natural strategies. It never ceased to amaze me that there were these natural remedies that were safe and effective and actually DID help the body heal itself. Who knew that you could take formulations of herbs and plants and address ailments without the nasty side effects of pharmaceutical drugs. Who also knew that that phone call would change the trajectory of my life and lead me down a life-long path in the forum of complementary healthcare.
As I started to share the new information I was learning and helping people be proactive and preventative about their health I experienced a level of cognitive dissonance that landed me in a suicidal depression. I’m not sure what happened in my brain but the drastic contrast between the ‘green’ and live giving properties of the supplement world, and the grey and ethnocentric qualities of the profiting mining company I worked for at the time resulted in me experiencing a mental collapse. It was so dark that to this day I still believe that the only thing that kept me alive was that I had two beautiful children who needed me. It was a very difficult time made even more challenging by a deep-seated need to understand why I was experiencing these bouts of depression. My decision to face that with a clear head was very frustrating and scary for my doctor who supported my journey in conjunction with an very special counsellor who opened up a very new and different world to me; a world where I felt a home. It was a world of energy and higher consciousness where I reconnected with a version of myself I hadn’t been in many years, before the craziness and chaos of life. In the end I came to realize two things: #1 – that my depression was fueled by a spiral of negative thinking that caught me in a vortex of despair; and #2 – That the journey out of the vortex was actually one of spiritual awakening. As I came to a new understanding of myself, I made the very difficult choice to leave me job. It was a difficult decision because the pay was really good. But for me, it wasn’t a good job. I was fortunate that I had the means to take some time to continue my venture before going back to work. I did some contract work until 2002 when I landed a full-time position. That coincided with yet another serendipitous moment. After a random decision to go to a store I rarely frequented, I bumped into the colleague I had frequently travelled with back in my supplement days. We hadn’t see each other in a couple of years. I almost passed her by with a quick hello until something turned me around. It was in the conversation we engaged in that I first heard about The BodyTalk System. I had a session with her and I was shocked at how, in a very short period of time, it silenced the boomeranging chatter in my head. And a new path was forged.
I started taking the BodyTalk training in February 2003. The training consisted of both in person and distance learning in a forum I again found unfamiliar territory… the world of quantum science and ancient philosophies. It was fascinating and overwhelming all at once and beautifully complimented the passion for the prevention of disease and restoration of health using natural strategies I had developed during my time in the nutritional arena. But BodyTalk didn’t migrate to my heart until I had my own personal healing experience. In June of 2004 I fell. Although I didn’t break any bones there was massive soft tissue damage in my shoulder. After fourteen months of unsuccessfully attempts to go back to work, it became obvious that I would not be able to continue in that line of work. but I needed something where my time could be more flexible; something that would allow me to rest when the pain in my shoulder became too severe. I saw a viable option in becoming a BodyTalk practitioner. With a learning format that disability, I continued the study of BodyTalk. One of the courses I took was a Life Science course offered by the International BodyTalk Association called Breakthrough. Breakthrough is a 7-step process to explore the distorted perceptions we hold in our subconscious mind that trigger conflictual behaviours. The Breakthrough theory gave me a whole new understanding of the intrinsic and extensive influence our life story, emotions, and beliefs has on our health and well-being. Personally experiencing a Breakthrough provided me with the opportunity to see how the pain of some unprocessed emotion in my life story had taken root in my shoulder. Our body often does that to bring awareness to what needs to be addressed to attain a more optimal level of wellbeing. Using a simple technique from within the BodyTalk protocol, the emotion from released from my shoulder. Eight hours after that link, I had full use of my shoulder (which I hadn’t been able to lift) and a decrease of about 85% of the pain I had been in for 20 months. When my doctor saw the results I had experienced she asked me if I would consider opening a clinic in her coinciding understanding of the detrimental effective of unprocessed emotion on the body. I went back to the drawing board with my heart-felt understanding of the power of BodyTalk to faciliate healing. I monitored some classes, took new ones and continued my studies in not only The BodyTalk System but the life sciences courses. In 2006 I aced my exams to became a Certified BodyTalk Practitioner and took the necessary steps to open a safe space for clients to come to address their health challenges. And The Karyng Link BodyTalk Clinic was born. Over the years I have had the privilege to be an intricate part of my clients wellness team. It is an honour I hold dear to my heart. To be witness to the incredible growth and adaptation that my clients experience as they come to understand how their life story, thought patterns and believe system influence and affect their health and quality of life is a gift for which I am forever grateful.