“These doctors that I was told to love and trust—and who knew everything—are not helping me. I cannot live this way.”
Of the Ether Podcast
Episode 5
In this episode, Alyssa shares her [almost] life-long struggle with Chronic Illness—and how she found healing with mindset work, reiki energy healing, and spirituality. She'll walk you through her diagnosis' of Celiac Disease, Gastroparesis, GERD, Hypothyroid, Hashimoto's Disease, SIBO, and Endometriosis... and her journey exploring mindset work with Louise Hay, finding her autonomy and control outside of her illnesses with reiki, and finally finding a home within a healthy body.
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Time Stamps:
0:01 Intro
1:17 I identified with my chronic illness
3:00 My diagnoses feel like a resume
3:42 Starting when I was two-years-old
5:00 Even through day-to-day pain, eventually people stop believing that you’re sick
6:00 Hiding food in my pockets, because I couldn’t eat any more
6:36 I could not catch my breath
9:05 Looking for answers again at the age of 20
10:06 “I think you should see a GI specialist”
10:22 The first diagnoses: celiac disease and gastroparesis
12:30 Struggling to stick to a gluten-free diet
15:10 Infertility and pregnancy loss
17:50 Hypothyroid diagnosis
18:34 My health started to tank—fast; chronic pain and inflammation
21:25 Trying to get answers
24:24 You have Hashimoto's Disease
25:30 Trying to heal Hashimoto’s, unsuccessfully
27:19 Exploring alternative treatments: mindset work, spirituality, reiki
28:48 A friend gave me a book that changed my life by Louise Hay
33:05 Acknowledging that my thoughts played a huge role in how my body functioned
33:45 Dropping the labels of “good food” and “bad food”
36:15 SIBO diagnosis and treatment
36:55 Improvements in my Gastroparesis symptoms and GERD
37:41 Pain in my abdomen: endometriosis and an endometrioma cyst
38:50 Noticing my progress in healing, despite a new diagnosis
41:44 Struggling with anxiety and trying reiki energy healing
43:06 Why reiki is a beautiful modality for healing thoughts, mindsets, beliefs, illness, dis-ease, etc.
43:57 Tackling unconscious thought patterns and and mindset with awareness and control
45:26 Reiki erased my anxiety and continues to bring me back to my center
46:26 How reiki brings you back home to yourself and helps you see your own divinity
47:56 What spirituality is
48:43 Recovery: todayI have zero chronic pain and inflammation
49:50 If you’d like help with reiki energy healing, learn more at oftheether.com/services
