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Finding the root of my chronic illness
Other people have trauma. They have terrible experiences that make them unwell, behave strangely, feel overwhelmed. What a horrible world. No wonder they have problems. I don’t have that excuse though. Nothing awful has ever happened to me. So I just need to get a...
Four Self Care Tips for the Holiday Season
At this time of year, all I want to do is curl up on my cosy rug in front of the fire with a good book, get early nights, take slow walks through the woods and generally, rest. What the world often asks us to do in December is to go to office parties, cook great...
Our 10 Favourite Songs to Support Healing From Chronic Illness
It’s a rollercoaster ride isn’t it – life in a woman’s body? Especially in a body that is healing, and taking longer than any of us would like. When we pause for a moment to drop below the numbness – the protective shield around our highly sensitive selves – there’s...
5 Steps Required for Healing Chronic Illness (and how giving Birth reminded me of them!)~ By Frances
If you’re on a journey of healing chronic illness you’ll know how much it takes to heal; the same was true for me in labour. As I approach the 3rd birthday of my son, Leo, I am reflecting on how that day reminded me of the process of healing from CFS/ME. I managed to...
Nature’s Three Healing Keys For Women With Chronic Illness
One of my heroes, Eve Ensler, attributes part of her recovery from cancer to the tree she could see from her hospital bed. A close friend of mine believes his healing from heroin addiction was largely due to the forest he visited every week for four years. Studies...
Emotional Freedom Technique ~ For Healing Chronic Illness
I am thrilled to be talking to you about Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) and how it can help to heal chronic illness. I am passionate about this because of the profound effect this simple and effective tool had on my own five year healing journey from Chronic...
Five Simple Steps to Envision Your Year of Deep Healing
Have you noticed? The tiniest buds are forming at the ends of the tree branches. The light is returning ever so slowly, and the days are getting a little longer. The precious beginnings of green shoots are emerging from the rain drenched soil. Life is waking up ~ ever...
Reclaim your power!~ By Frances Goodall
This weeks video blog shares a tool from shamanism called ‘cord cutting’ combined with EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques) to support you in reclaiming your power and your health. A key piece in my recovery journey was to learn to be able to disentangle myself...
Chronic Illness and Anger: Allowing Rage to Flow
Life in a woman’s body, with its monthly cycles and constantly shifting nature, is a life coloured with all kinds of emotions. It can be overwhelming to really feel them all, and we receive a great training from childhood to only express the ‘nice’ ones: “if you’re...
12 Steps to Wellbeing for Women with Chronic Illness
This is adapted from a blog on my other site (www.francesgoodall.com). It is a short version of an ebook I am just finishing off that goes into greater depth, to get your copy of the ebook when it is finished go here. Commit to radical self care…. 1) Look after your...
Seven Keys to Avoid Burnout for Women in Chronic Illness Recovery
One of the trickiest parts of a healing journey can be the final phase: the weeks, months (or years) where the symptoms begin to fade into the background, a new rhythm begins to take hold, and slowly but surely you start to feel like ‘yourself again’. In this...
Awakening Through Chronic Illness ~ By Frances
“In the broken places, the light shines through.” ~Leonard Cohen Could chronic illness be a guide to support us on a path to healing and awakening to who we truly are? Could it be that the illness has come to teach a lesson, to guide the sufferer back to wellness and...
The Dark Gift of Chronic Illness is Intimacy
Again and again we sit eye to eye with pain. And although we all would have probably chosen an easier path, we can’t help but acknowledge that we’re becoming warriors, armed with reserves of strength, humour and patience we never could have imagined. Every...
Can Women’s Circles Rewire the Brain for Health and Happiness?
‘Neurons that fire together, wire together.’ ~Bruce Lipton I recently listened to an interview with Bruce Lipton (Author of ‘The Biology of Belief’) and it inspired to write a blog about my experience with brain retraining, and how it can be combined with the healing...
The Healing Power of Women’s Circles
The beauty of circles. As an eleven years old, my favourite thing is the world was being with my three best girlfriends. We were the class geeks, and chose to spend our lunchtimes away from the hustle and bustle of the playground and other kids, sitting in the...
The 6 Ways Going on a Retreat can Support You to Heal Chronic Illness
When I was ill with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, going on regular retreats was one of the crucial things I did to help me to fully recover. Every time I came home from a retreat, my mind was clearer and I felt a fresh spark of energy and vitality in my system. Retreats...
Healing comes when we listen to the heart, not the head
“When it’s over, I want to say all my life I was a bride married to amazement I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.” Mary Oliver A huge amount of my stress comes from wanting to do so many things. It starts with the excitement, the spark of energy and...
How Entering Core Wounds Gifts Us the Power to Heal
I could not bear to be alone. I worked for years on the fear of rejection, and then on the pain of feeling rejected, but as I cycled through the layers of belief and emotion it was becoming clear that there was something underneath this fear and pain, something I was...
How past trauma can be at the root of Chronic Illness
Is our past in the past? Have we truly left it there, or do we bring it with us in painful memories, thoughts, conditioned responses and body armouring? Is it contributing to our illnesses today? If we honestly ask ourselves that question many of us will find the...
We Heal in Community
We heal in community. We are social beings. We don’t heal when we feel isolated, but when we feel connected and held. I know this from the inside out from my own healing journey from CFS (Chronic Fatigue Syndrome) and trauma, and from the journey’s I have witnessed in...
Finding the root of my chronic illness
Other people have trauma. They have terrible experiences that make them unwell, behave strangely, feel overwhelmed. What a horrible world. No wonder they have problems. I don’t have that excuse though. Nothing awful has ever happened to me. So I just need to get a...
Four Self Care Tips for the Holiday Season
At this time of year, all I want to do is curl up on my cosy rug in front of the fire with a good book, get early nights, take slow walks through the woods and generally, rest. What the world often asks us to do in December is to go to office parties, cook great...
Our 10 Favourite Songs to Support Healing From Chronic Illness
It’s a rollercoaster ride isn’t it – life in a woman’s body? Especially in a body that is healing, and taking longer than any of us would like. When we pause for a moment to drop below the numbness – the protective shield around our highly sensitive selves – there’s...
5 Steps Required for Healing Chronic Illness (and how giving Birth reminded me of them!)~ By Frances
If you’re on a journey of healing chronic illness you’ll know how much it takes to heal; the same was true for me in labour. As I approach the 3rd birthday of my son, Leo, I am reflecting on how that day reminded me of the process of healing from CFS/ME. I managed to...
Nature’s Three Healing Keys For Women With Chronic Illness
One of my heroes, Eve Ensler, attributes part of her recovery from cancer to the tree she could see from her hospital bed. A close friend of mine believes his healing from heroin addiction was largely due to the forest he visited every week for four years. Studies...