EP 96: Intuitive Healer Katie Beecher Talks About Her New Lyme Book Heal From Within

Katie Beecher is a spiritual intuitive, counselor, and author who the likes of Goop and Poosh have published. She was also one of my initial guests when I began the Lyme360+ podcast! I am thrilled to have Katie back on to talk about her new book, Heal from Within, a guide to healing your mind, body, and soul. Each chapter focuses on a specific chakra, providing insight into the issues associated with the energy center and the healing techniques and suggestions. The book's second part includes a comprehensive glossary of specific conditions and tailored treatment suggestions.

Tune in to learn about Katie's intuitive practice, the pillars of her new book, and why we can heal ourselves through connection.

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Transcript

 Mimi McLain:
Welcome to the Lyme 360 podcast for all things related to Lyme disease and other chronic illnesses. I'm Mimi McClain, mom of five, founder of Lyme 360 and a fellow Lyme warrior. Tune in each week to hear from doctors, health, practitioners, and experts to learn about their treatments, struggles and triumph, to help you on your healing journey. I'm here to heal with you.

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Mimi McLain:
Welcome back to the Lyme 360 podcast. This is your host, Mimi McClain, and today I'm having on again, Katie Beecher and she's a medical and spiritual, intuitive and licensed professional counselor. She's been featured in Goop, Posh, Miranda Kara's blog, and many other media outlets. Her own healing journey from severe eating disorder, depression, anxiety, and Lyme is pretty remarkable, which began at the age of 16. She sought treatment with [inaudible 00:01:51] psychologists that taught her to connect with her intuition and psychic gifts.

Mimi McLain:
She believes that, with the connection to intuition self-love and self-acceptance, we can do anything including heal. Using this chakras as a framework, Katie's new book Heal From Within guides readers to inventory their physical and emotional health, identifying their key issues and which chakras they're associated with. Each chapter focuses on a specific chakra providing insight into the issues associated with the energy center, along with the healing techniques and suggestions. The second part of the book includes a comprehensive glossary of specific conditions along with the tailored treatment suggestions.

Mimi McLain:
To get my detox for Lyme checklist, go to lyme360.com/detoxchecklist. Katie, how are you? Good to see you. It's been a while. I think you were one of my first podcasts. I had had you on when I first started, almost like 18 months ago, I think.

Katie Beecher:
Wow.

Mimi McLain:
You did a reading for me, which I love. I have to actually find the picture. It was a great picture that you did. Anyway, so I wanted to have you back on because of your new book Heal From Within. Congratulations to you.

Katie Beecher:
Thank you very much. I appreciate it.

Mimi McLain:
Yeah. So let's start off by just diving in and telling me about your book and why you decided to write it. Then we can go on and talk about your practice after that.

Katie Beecher:
Sure. So I wanted to find a way to reach more people and help more people because not everyone is able to get a reading, but I really believe that everyone is able to heal and that they have so much power within themselves. So I wanted to teach them some of the tools that I've developed that has worked for me and my clients over the years. My husband calls it Katie Beecher, the home game. So it really is a little bit about my backstory and healing from eating disorder and Lyme and all that kind of good stuff. And then teaching people how to connect to their intuition, and then helping them identify their issues and their strengths, and then taking them through all the steps that I use when people have a reading.

Katie Beecher:
So into the report with all the chakras and all the information, having them identify what issues they need to work on and maybe what they need to pick first. It's physical, emotional, and spiritual. I give them my template and show them how to listen to their intuition and their bodies, and feel that out so they can have an overall picture of how everything that is going on in their life and in their body fits together, and then be able to address that. There's tons of quizzes and hands on tools. I teach people how to make those intuitive paintings. I also talk about a lot of specific disease states and issues and give them information about how to get to the root causes and work on healing.

Mimi McLain:
Oh, that's great. So do you talk about in the book specifically about Lyme or chronic illness?

Katie Beecher:
I do. Yeah, quite a bit, quite a bit. There's a couple of sections just online, both from my healing perspective and then some clients who've healed from it. Then some more kind of general information about your options, because there's so many.

Mimi McLain:
So your specialty is a medical and spiritual intuitive healer. I have a silly question because, for a lot of people, I think we embark on getting better by, okay, we're going to kill the virus, go out. We either go look for a medicine or the magic bullet that tries to kill the Lyme. I have learned over the past six years that there is a deeper thing that needs to happen in order to heal. You might get a quick reprieve, but ultimately you relapsed unless you've kind of found what really, I think, Lyme is trying to teach you.

Katie Beecher:
Yes.

Mimi McLain:
So silly question, but what's the difference between emotional and spiritual healing?

Katie Beecher:
That is not a silly question at all. I think it's a great question.

Mimi McLain:
I always wonder that. I'm like, okay, what's the difference really? Because is there? I don't know because I'm like, they kind of go hand in hand.

Katie Beecher:
There's definitely a fine line. One of the ways to look at it is emotional stuff is sort of like feelings, more like anxiety, depression, mental illness type of stuff. So those kinds of things might be issues. Then also root causes for other things that are going on. When I talk about spiritual stuff, to me, it's more like connecting to your intuition and using that to listen to signals from your body or signals from your intuition or from spirit looking at kind of the bigger picture. I can give you an example. This maybe the best way to do it.

Katie Beecher:
So when I had Lyme, of course it was really scary when I found out. Not that big surprised, but pretty scary. My first thought was, I don't want to be a patient. I don't want to use the word my, or to even use the word Lyme or I just really didn't want to bring that into my consciousness. So, that's kind of a spiritual thing. I didn't want to identify myself as somebody with an illness because there's so many facets to us and there's so many things in our life, and it's not just being sick or having fear or something.

Katie Beecher:
So, that was one of the kind of spiritual things that I did. But also, I've that there is, because of the deeper meaning, I wrote to the Lyme disease in my body and I said, okay, so I've had this all my life probably. Just found out in my mid forties. What's the deal. Why have I learned this? What would you like me to know? How can I heal? What are the deeper steps I need to take? It said that it was finally time to write the proposal for my book that I had been knowing I needed to write since I was 16 and fear of screwing it up or not being able to do it was getting in the way of me writing my proposal. So I listened and I did that, and I really feel like that was a big part of why I've been able to stay healed for so long.

Mimi McLain:
No, it's true because I do feel like, especially when I talk to people and they have this anger to the disease and they identify as the disease, I think they're not going to heal. I'm sure you feel this way. When you talk to somebody, and I'm not a healer, but like I can tell immediately if they're going to heal or not, because of the way that their mental frame of ... they're angry, they don't see hope, they want to kill it. Whereas I think if you approach an illness, if it's cancer, if it's chronic illness, whatever it is, as what am I doing wrong in my life that's causing me to be sick.

Katie Beecher:
Or how am I not being authentic?

Mimi McLain:
Yes.

Katie Beecher:
Not even a right or wrong, but how am I not being my true self? How am I not listening?

Mimi McLain:
And maybe it's a bad relationship in your life. Maybe it's not treating your body well. The list goes on and on, right?

Katie Beecher:
Exactly.

Mimi McLain:
So it's like, what is it that you have to learn? It can also be, I've learned, past lives. You didn't know that you had past ... I never thought I'd be talking about past lives, but it kind of made you ... when you're not getting better, you're like, okay, what? I feel like I've done everything. What do I need to do? Then you find out past lives and what happened in your past lives can come and keep reteaching you. It's kind of like when you have people in your life ... the same type of people keep coming back in your life. And you're like, what lesson have I not learned that I keep letting this situation or these people back into my life? I'm not handling it correctly, right?

Katie Beecher:
Right. Right. Yeah. Also, generational trauma that, for whatever reason ... actually, I look at it as, because you are strong enough, because you are more spiritually involved, you have been picked to heal this generational trauma. Now it doesn't mean you fix everybody or that you reverse things or make it not real. But you can take a look at the things that don't work in your family and break the cycle, remove yourself from negativity. We are spiritual teachers and healers just by being our true selves. So you do a lot of healing through just being you and your writing and your podcast. But yeah, there's so many things there. Even the anger, what I'd love to say about anger is you take poison and then no one else dies.

Katie Beecher:
You take it. Anger's like poison that you take and then you die. No one else is affected by it. So anger really eats away at us from the inside. Especially if it's directed at your body, you're like, my body's a piece of crap. There's something wrong with it. There's something wrong with me. I'm flawed. Anger just ... I get it, and the hopelessness, and it just sets up this cycle of sadness and pain and anxiety. It's not a good environment to try and heal under.

Mimi McLain:
Right. But also dealing with ... we all have anger. We've all had issues in our past life. Maybe we remember them, maybe we don't. But one of the lessons I've learned is holding on anger and judgment of other people is not healthy because it only hurting you. It's not hurting the other person. They don't give a crap if you're angry at them. They've moved on. You know what I mean? Sometimes like you look at a relationship, if it's a parent or whatever, a friend, and maybe they didn't mean to do it. Maybe they tried their best, but it's still falling short and it's hard not to be angry at it, but then you just have to let it go. I've had a lot of anger that I've had to let go.

Katie Beecher:
Me too.

Mimi McLain:
The other thing I think is interesting, and I'd love to see your thought about it is, Lyme is an interesting disease because, if you go to a doctor, hospital, you don't feel well, they always tell you it's all in your head. Go see a psychiatrist because you need to work on ... it's all on your head, which is kind of an interesting thing because there's so many complex parts to Lyme where Lyme actually does cause some psychiatric disorders. It can cause depression, anxiety, so it's actually physically doing that to you. Not that a psychiatrist couldn't help you with that.

Mimi McLain:
But then also there's the component of feeling like you've been ghosted or you're feeling like all of the sudden you're going crazy. You're like, wait, am I going crazy? Am I making this up? Then there's the third piece of it of, okay, there is some past trauma that I do need to work through to get my body to healed. So there's so many complexities of the emotional, spiritual part of Lyme.

Katie Beecher:
Yeah. One of the things that blew my mind when I healed was the depression that I had suffered since I was an adolescent literally went away. I grew up two towns over from [inaudible 00:13:25] Connecticut. I probably went in the woods and did all this stuff. I'm sure I had it from when I was little. There were all these symptoms throughout my life that even doctors in Connecticut never once said you might have Lyme. Like never. So I can look back on all that and be like, okay. So that's why I said, why now? There's a reason that I'm finding this out now.

Katie Beecher:
Sometimes I work with people or I'll even write a post on Instagram and talk about what we're talking about now, and really tuning in and kind of seeing what you can do to be more authentic and look at the kind of the underlying stuff that's going on with any chronic illness or any illness at all. I've been accused of being an ableist. People could be pretty nasty when they don't want to make changes in how they think about things and their behaviors. It's like, first of all, you don't know anything about me. And if you did, you would know that is the furthest thing from the truth.

Mimi McLain:
What do they mean by ableist?

Katie Beecher:
Well, I was a little confused about that too. So I looked up the term and the dictionary definition is somebody who is not sick discriminating against somebody who is, is the basic definition. So they're basically saying that I am being completely insensitive to people who are sick, that I'm telling them that it's their fault, that the physical stuff isn't there. It's sort of like I'm negating their experience. It's very fascinating how many people feel that way and how many people's Instagram accounts or whatever are literally all about their illness. That is their identity now. It's so sad, but I've learned from dealing with people forever, once a lot of people get sick, it's the first time that anyone in their life ever pays attention to them or ever asks, are you okay? Or that they give themselves permission to say no, because they have an excuse of, no, I can't do eight million things for you.

Mimi McLain:
That's so true. I dealt with that. I've mentally been like, okay, I'm one of six kids.

Katie Beecher:
Right.

Mimi McLain:
My mom would give more attention to the kid who was hurt.

Katie Beecher:
Right.

Mimi McLain:
Then also I'm also ... the same thing where like I always say, want to say yes, yes, yes, keep going. And I never let myself just be like, no, today I'm going to just watch TV all day.

Katie Beecher:
Right.

Mimi McLain:
So it's kind of nice to be able to be like, oh, I don't feel well today. I have whatever. I have COVID, whatever.

Katie Beecher:
Yeah. So trick is ... not trick, but is being able to own those feelings and being able to say no to what you want to and say yes to what you want to say yes to without feeling like you need that excuse of sick. It's really about empowerment. I think people are afraid of empowerment.

Mimi McLain:
But it's also going a step further. I know what you're saying, there's a fine line of acknowledging someone who's sick and doesn't feel well and has these symptoms, but also acknowledging that sometimes you feel better after you take a shower or you just get out of bed or you go for a walk around the block or you step away from a toxic situation. All of the sudden you feel better, or you watch a funny movie, you kind of take your mind off of that. Doesn't say that it doesn't exist. It's just-

Katie Beecher:
Exactly.

Mimi McLain:
You might have a toothache, but then if you break your foot, your foot hurts more than your toothache. It's like, why does your body do that? So it's not playing games with your mind, but it's training your mind.

Katie Beecher:
Yeah. I don't think they recognize how much power they have and how much control they really have, and that we really do have intuition around us all the time that's taken care of us, that we listen to to guide us. The more we push that down, the less well we will feel, and the less hopeful.

Mimi McLain:
Yep. And it's true because I feel like, with Lyme especially, there are so many ways that you can heal. There's not one path.

Katie Beecher:
Totally.

Mimi McLain:
So there's so many paths to go down and so you have to really listen to your intuition to be like, what is it that I think is going to work for me? Is it because I'm dehydrated today or I'm lacking minerals that's going to make my... It's just stopping and listening and being like, oh no, is it because I need the antibiotics, or is it because I need to eat better or sleep more?

Katie Beecher:
Every case is so different, as I don't have to tell you. So everybody's symptoms are different and what works for everybody's different. I'm not a big one on protocols, I think, because we're all so different and we need individualized healing, but I get the people who are just so desperate because they've had it denied for so long or don't know what to do anymore, or can't find people to really help them. It's hard to find really good people who, number one, listen to you. And number two, will look at all different aspects of ways to heal. It's super hard to find that. I was fortunate.

Mimi McLain:
Yeah. But Katie, I love the title of your book because I feel like, when I was in the thick of not feeling well, all you wanted was you wanted that magic doctor or the magic bullet, and you just felt like you couldn't get better until you went and saw that doctor, or you found the right thing.

Katie Beecher:
For sure.

Mimi McLain:
So I feel like it's really important to take the power back and say, I'm going to heal myself. No doctor's going to heal me. No one thing is going to heal me, like medicine or magic bullet, and saying, okay, I'm taking this into my own hands and what do I need to do? Figure that out from within and know that you're the only one that's going to heal yourself.

Katie Beecher:
It's true. We certainly all need help and we need each other. Like your podcast, it's about listening to yourself and your intuition and helping it guide you towards different possibilities. Then listening to, it doesn't matter that this guy's really this world renowned person and he charges a million dollars. I don't feel right about him. I don't know that he's going to be able to help me, or that somebody said this, this and this works, but I don't know. I tried that herb and it doesn't feel good on me, or whatever. But we really need to listen to ourselves for healing from anything really.

Mimi McLain:
How does one tap into that intuition if they're not used to [inaudible 00:20:24]?

Katie Beecher:
Yeah. So my favorite way, and this is in my book. There's a lot of different ways in my book to tap into intuition. You do not have to be an intuitive or psychic or anything else to connect. It's within reach of everybody. The way that I think about intuition is that it's this all-knowing force that is pure love. It knows everything about you. It's kind of like our source. It accepts you and loves you unconditionally, just like your pet. Your pet does not care what you're wearing or if you have makeup on, or what you weigh. It just doesn't matter. You're just loved unconditionally.

Katie Beecher:
It's always with us, helping us feel safe and guiding us. So with that in mind, the technique is to physically write down your feelings or thoughts or a question and direct it to your intuition. So some people just write to God or they write to the universe or somebody in spirit who they felt very loved and accepted by. So you write this out and then just sit and wait for whatever you hear, feel, see in response to what you wrote, and write that down, and then write back to it. Then whatever you get, write that down, write back to it. So you're having a written conversation with your intuition, with this loving force.

Katie Beecher:
Doing it in writing is so much more powerful than trying to do it in your head because you have to stop what you're doing to write. The kinesthetic action of the writing and looking at what you're writing and everything really brings a focus into that activity. So it dulls down some of that overthinking and the, what am I going to have for dinner stuff, and the what am my kids doing stuff? It really is like, okay, I'm focusing here. It also brings your body into the equation so you can listen to signals from your body.

Katie Beecher:
Sometimes I will just say, do you have anything to tell me? Sometimes I will ask a question about healing or about a business thing or whatever the thing is, family, whatever. It doesn't matter. Oftentimes I'll just start writing because I'm not exactly sure what's on my mind. I'll just ask for feedback. So there's not just one way to do it. Sometimes I do it for five minutes. Sometimes I take 20 minutes. So it's not something you have to have a ton the time to do, or you don't need a special journal. I'll take a napkin and write and throw it away. It's not supposed to be formal.

Katie Beecher:
When I was recovering from the eating disorder and the Lyme, I wrote to those and wrote to them like they were my friends and there to help me instead of my enemy. Basically said, what would you like me to know? How can I be more authentic? How can I help you to heal, kind of anything that came to mind and enlisted them as part of my healing team, which kind of sounds a little weird, but it works. Yeah, and there's lot types of obstacles to doing that. That's what we all encounter, which are in my book and stuff too.

Mimi McLain:
Now the voice that you're listening to, sometimes I tend to have two voices, one that's more in the gut and one that's more in my head. Is there one that you're supposed to listen to more?

Katie Beecher:
Great question. One of the obstacles to being able to do this is kind of overthinking the process, being like, why does this just sound like a voice in my head? Why does it just sound like me? Am I just making this up? Is it just me? I encourage people to just be open to whatever you hear, because if we're getting information from ourselves, from our gut, from our own bodies, that is just as valid as getting it from an outside guide or spirit or something else. So everything that you hear is important.

Katie Beecher:
A question I get asked all the time is what is the difference between intuition and fear? This is just my thing, but I think fear makes you feel more fearful. It makes you feel anxious. It makes you feel unsettled. When you're listening to your gut feeling or intuition from spirit or anything like that, even if it's difficult information to hear, it makes you feel settled. You can calm down a little bit. You can just be like, all right, that makes sense. Some of is hard to discern because, when you're sick or in bed or just fed up or just all of those things, it's really hard not to be super emotional. Fear certainly comes into the picture, especially if you've seen 8,000 doctors and healers and you're still not better and you want your life back.

Mimi McLain:
Yeah. Or you get that one symptom and you're like, oh no, am I relapsing? Or all of a sudden you're like, oh no, I don't want to fall back into that trap.

Katie Beecher:
Yeah. There's the PTSD thing of, oh my God, especially if you listen to some people talk who say you can never fully heal. So you're just waiting to get sick again. That's relaxing.

Mimi McLain:
Is this that you're talking about or the voice, how does that relate? Or is it the same thing as when I've heard people say to me, listen to your child's voice or something like that? Do you know what I'm talking about?

Katie Beecher:
Inner child?

Mimi McLain:
Inner child.

Katie Beecher:
I think that the messages you get from your inner child are definitely intuitive messages. So I look at time as not a linear concept. When I do my reports for my readings, which I know nothing about the people, just a name and age, I literally see their whole lives all at once and their past lives and the lives of people that are watching over them. So people who are alive, dead, I literally see it all at once. So I don't believe that time is linear. I believe that we can access all different planes, all different timeframes, all different ...

Katie Beecher:
I think that when you're tapping into your inner child, you're really tapping into the feelings you had as a child, the memories, the persona that you had then, how you felt, and that is all stored in you. So I think that you're tapping into all of that and allowing that to heal, allowing that to have a voice, which I was never listened to. You're kind of re birthing yourself in a lot of ways.

Mimi McLain:
That's your true self too, right? Before you become tainted or changed or fear from your life events.

Katie Beecher:
Yes. Also, even after you have. You can heal all of the pain and the fear and the trauma that you've had. Again, it's about empowerment. We don't think that we can, or we don't realize how strong we are, or we don't give credit to the fact that we've survived probably the worst. We've survived some pretty difficult things. So what can't we survive now?

Mimi McLain:
Great. So this has been amazing. I'm so excited for your book Heal From Within. What's the best place for someone if they want to come either try to book a session with you or one on one, or learn more about your book?

Katie Beecher:
Absolutely. So my website, which is Katie Beecher, Katiebeecher.com. You can book a session, you can learn more about me. You can connect with all that. Then Instagram as well, Katie Beecher medical intuitive. My book is available everywhere.

Mimi McLain:
I'll have a link of Amazon on my-

Katie Beecher:
Sure. Yes, that's probably easiest, but yeah, everywhere. It's in Audio, Kindle and the hard cover. The hard cover has a lot of charts and pictures and things like that. The Kindle will too. Then if you order the audio book, you will get a PDF document with some of those things. But a lot of people, they're like, I want to listen, but I want to look as well at the pictures. So sometimes people get both, but you will get all the materials no matter what you do.

Mimi McLain:
Perfect. This has been amazing. Thank you so much for your time. I appreciate it. And best of luck with your book for Heal From Within.

Katie Beecher:
Thank you so much. Wonderful to talk to you again.

Mimi McLain:
Each week, I will bring you different voices from the wellness community so that can share how they help their clients heal. You will come away with tips and strategies to help you get your life back. Thank you so much for coming on, and I am so happy you are here. Subscribe now and tune in next week if you want to learn how I detox and you want to check out my detox for Lyme checklist, go to Lyme360.com/detox checklist. You can also join our community at Lyme360 warriors on Facebook and let's heal together. Thank you.