Heal Your Power Center
Why You’re Here:
- You’re a survivor of narcissistic abuse and you’re ready to heal and get your power back
- want better control over your thoughts and feelings
- sick of feeling like the narcissist still controls you
- over-eating, over-indulging
- liver and/or digestive problems
- exhausted
- Can’t focus. Disorganized
- addictions
- Low self-esteem
- Inability to set or maintain boundaries
- Codependency
- Lack of self-control
- Depression or anxiety
- Low life-force or Will
- Insecurity
- anxiety
- fear
- Self doubt
Who I Am:
- narcissism Survivor : family + partners
- spiritual coach, healer for over 20 years
- master/healer/teacher in Shamballa Reiki
- BA in English from Bryn Mawr. Also studied psychology and anthropology there
- finally figured out narcissism
- mission to heal people from it, to help people get out, loved ones know how to support you
What You Can Heal:
As you heal your solar plexus chakra, you will rebuild
- sense of self
- healthy boundary-setting
- self-confidence
- assertiveness
- ability to judge yourself and others accurately
- calm
- sense of personal direction
- control your thoughts
- Trust in yourself
Sucker Punch & Gut feelings
Solar Plexus Chakra
Liver:
physical
- hormones: for cell growth
- converting vitamin D into active form, necessary for calcium utilization.
- pivotal in absorption of other fat-soluble vitamins.
- converts thyroid hormone into its most active form: big impacts on energy, mood
- blood pressure control
- detoxifying and breaking down toxic poisons, drugs, alcohol, and waste products
- when not working can get jaundice: yellow eyes and skin
- healthy human liver holds about a two-year store of Vitamin A
- booze and smoking bad
- can reproduce/heal itself as long as it has at least 25 percent left
- insomnia
spiritual/emotional
- seat of anger
- Anger, resentment, frustration, irritability, bitterness,
- repressed anger or frustration. depression, irritability, defensiveness, discouragement
Large Intestines
- grief… connection with throat chakra and lungs
Spleen & Stomach
- worry
- nervousness / anxiety
Adrenals
- adrenal fatigue review: fight-or-flight for too long
- prolonged exposure to stress drains adrenals leading to low cortisol state.
- adrenal depletion causes brain fog, low energy, depressive mood, salt and sweet cravings, lightheadedness, …
Cautions:
- healing this doesn’t happen overnight
- takes dedicated persistence & repetition
- gentleness with yourself
- forgive yourself
- honor and use your emotions
Big Emotions:
- anger
- grief
Body Parts Affected:
- liver
- gall bladder
- spleen
- stomach
- intestines
- adrenals
Foods, Spices, Herbs:
- yellow and orange foods and spices
- papaya the red-pigment phytochemicals allow liver cells to become more agile and versatile so the liver can function at its optimum. –“Liver Rescue”
- dragon fruit
- melon: good for liver: “hydrating” easy-to-digest
- turmeric for
- leaky gut: astringent which contracts the proteins in the bowel lining, thus squeezing shut the spaces between the cells and reducing gut permeability.
- anti-inflammatory and antimicrobial.
- liver: cleanse and strengthen
- balance the female reproductive and lactation systems
- spiritual:
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- ward off evil
- healing and protection.
- prosperity …ancient India … energy of the Divine Mother
- cleanse the chakras (energy centers in the body)
- purifies the channels of the subtle body. (where your spirit combines with your body and reaches out beyond)
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- ginger
- celery: good for liver, cleansing
- milk thistle
- FlorEssence/Essiac
- Carrots,
- sweet potato,
- pumpkin,
- parsnip,
- squash,
- chestnuts,
- fig,
- taro,
- liquorice root,
- ginger root, jujube date,
- astragalus root
- Dandelion greens,
- beetroot,
- citrus
- calendula tea — candida
- skip
- caffeine
- soda
Mudras:
Rudra Mudra
Mantanqi Mudra
Pushan Mudra
Physical Exercise:
- Richard Simmons approach
- twisting torso
- sweating
- Yoga:
- bending
- folding
- twisting
- Dancing
- Walking: gentle, your pace
Meditations/Visualization
Reflexology
Orgasms
- balance hormones
- feel-good endorphins
Mantras/Affirmations
- “Love and peace and joy are what I know.”
- “I choose to live through the open space in my heart.”
- “I look for love and find it everywhere.”