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EP# 215: Healing Beyond Massage: Cassidy Walpole's Journey with Continuum Healing Arts and My Life Unsubscribed
What makes Cassidy Walpole with Continuum Healing Arts/My Life Subscribed a good neighbor?
Struggling with chronic health issues that conventional medicine can't solve? Cassidy Walpole's journey might resonate deeply with you. As the owner of Continuum Healing Arts and My Life Unsubscribed, Cassidy shares how her own battle with debilitating joint pain and depression led her to discover hidden food intolerances that were creating widespread inflammation throughout her body.
What began as a massage therapy practice in 2017 has evolved into a comprehensive health coaching business focused on bio-individuality. Cassidy eloquently explains why cookie-cutter health approaches often fail: "What works for me isn't necessarily going to work for you and could actually be the wrong thing for you." This philosophy guides her work with clients seeking sustainable solutions to complex health challenges that doctors frequently miss due to time constraints and specialized focus.
Perhaps most fascinating is Cassidy's newest venture addressing digital addiction. Her six-week digital detox program helps people break free from the "digital dopamine" cycle of social media and screen time that consumes modern life. The structured approach guides participants through reducing screen time, replacing it with healthier activities, and consciously deciding which digital elements to reintroduce—if any. As someone passionate about nature, gardening, and spending time with her two pointer-lab mix dogs, Cassidy embodies the balanced lifestyle she helps clients achieve.
Ready to transform your relationship with health, technology, or both? Cassidy is offering Good Neighbor Podcast listeners a free 40-minute strategy session. Connect through continuumhealingarts.com or her digital detox platform, My Life Unsubscribed, and mention the podcast to claim this special offer. Your journey toward genuine wellbeing might begin with this conversation.
To learn more about Continuum Healing Arts/My Life Subscribed go to:
https://www.continuumhealingarts.com/
Continuum Healing Arts/My Life Subscribed
(919) 724-5080
This is the Good Neighbor Podcast, the place where local businesses and neighbors come together. Here's your host, Skip Monty.
Speaker 2:Well, hello everyone and welcome to the Good Neighbor Podcast. So I am super excited today to have a very special guest in the studio with us, and I'm sure you'll be just as excited because today I have the pleasure of introducing your good neighbor, miss Cassidy Walpole, who is the owner operator of Continuum Healing Arts and my Life Unsubscribed. Cassidy, welcome to the show.
Speaker 3:Thanks so much. Thanks for having me.
Speaker 2:Well, we are, like I said, thrilled to have you here and, briefly before we started, you mentioned a term that I had not heard before, but I'm a big fan already digital detoxing. But I'm sure our listeners will be just as excited to learn all about you and what you do. So, if you don't mind, why don't you kick us off by telling us about your businesses?
Speaker 3:Thank you. Yeah, sure, the name of my business is Continuum Healing Arts, and that started with my massage practice in 2017. I expanded to offer Reiki, energy work and breath work, and then, most recently, became certified as a health coach. So these days I'm primarily working with clients remotely, offering them support through health coaching packages.
Speaker 2:Very good. Do you still do massage as well?
Speaker 3:I'm doing a lot less massage these days. I am still teaching breath work and doing a little bit of energy work, but mostly I'm doing the health coaching.
Speaker 2:Very good, very good. How did you get into this business, cassidy?
Speaker 3:Very good. How did you get into this business, cassidy? As a massage therapist, I was noticing that my clients were often saying that the body work was helping with their physical symptoms, but they would still experience pain and discomfort and tension, and often they were attributing that to stress in their life often overworking, or it was dietary and lifestyle elements that weren't serving them well, and they were asking me for advice in areas of their life that I wasn't exactly able to advise them on as a massage therapist, and now with the health coach certification, I'm able to offer a broader offering of support for my clients.
Speaker 2:Very good. Well, in the in the health coaching business, what are some myths or misconceptions that exist?
Speaker 3:I would say that I think people expect for a health coach to be prescribing a strict diet or a specific exercise regimen, when in fact, the goal is to look at people as bio-individual. We are all different and what works for me isn't necessarily going to work for you and could actually be the wrong thing for you. So health coaching is about helping clients discover what directions they're wanting to take their life in as far as their health and well-being, and help them establish specific habits and set goals working towards making those changes in their lives.
Speaker 2:Awesome. Well, outside of work, Cassidy, what do you like to do for fun?
Speaker 3:of work, Cassidy? What do you like to do for fun? I have a couple of dogs. I am a dog mom and I love getting out in nature. So often my free time is also their free time. We love going out into the woods. I'm also really big on gardening. I just love being outdoors and being connected to nature.
Speaker 2:Same here and I'm a dog. I'm a dog, dad, and a gardener as well. I love it. I just hold my garden. I've got a small garden. It's about 20 foot long and eight foot wide but just was eat up with weeds after all the rain. But I got it, I got it cleaned up and it looks like a garden now, so I'm excited.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it's a time of year to get started.
Speaker 2:It is, it is. What type of dogs do you have?
Speaker 3:They are pointer and lab mix. I adopted two sisters. I was fostering them and I am a double foster fail.
Speaker 2:Double foster fail. And you said a pointer lab mix.
Speaker 3:Yes.
Speaker 2:Oh wow, so they love birds, I'm sure.
Speaker 3:They love smells. They are really big on smelling everything.
Speaker 2:Oh, I bet, and do they point? Do they still point?
Speaker 3:I've never seen them, point no.
Speaker 2:They'll probably surprise you at some time. I've had a beagle that pointed once. They're not supposed to do that, which is weird, but anyway. Well, let's switch gears for just a second. Can you describe a hardship or a life challenge that you've overcome and how it made you stronger in the end?
Speaker 3:Mm, hmm.
Speaker 3:I went through a period of time over more than a year where I was experiencing chronic pain, joint pain in particular.
Speaker 3:I had a shoulder injury that wasn't healing and, in addition, I had other mental and emotional aspects that I was dealing with, including depression and anxiety. And even though I was seeing specialists and trying to figure out what was going on, why my shoulder wasn't getting better, I was finding that they weren't able to give me answers, and it turned out that on my own I discovered that I had some dietary intolerances. So there were some foods that I was eating that my body was reacting to, although it wasn't in a way that I would have said, oh, I shouldn't eat that anymore. It was more causing inflammation in my body that was creating other symptoms, and when I figured that out, my life just changed drastically my health improved, pain went away, I was happier and more resilient overall was happier and more resilient overall, and that really inspired me and gives me a lot of compassion and empathy for people who are experiencing autoimmune disorders and chronic pain, mental and emotional struggles, and it's a big part of why I do the work that I do.
Speaker 2:Wow. So that was, that was your motivation, was your own personal experience.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it was really challenging to be going to doctors and and not really getting any answers. Um, and I think a lot of the time primary providers are really busy and they have a lot of clients and they're used to giving specific recommendations but they're not used to. They don't have a lot else to give. They're not there to provide ongoing support, which is where a health coach really excels, because we're able to work with clients around building healthy habits and setting goals and supporting them in feeling motivated and also tweaking the plan as needed because things change.
Speaker 2:Aspects of our lives change mind, body and spirit are so connected and that that you know one thing like you said, a certain food intolerance to a certain type of food, how that can affect many things. I mean as far as, like you said, depression and anxiety, and if you're out of balance, you could manifest itself in lots of different ways. It sounds like.
Speaker 3:It's true, yeah, and it can be especially hard when it's creating something like depression or anxiety in your life, which is really hard to identify where exactly that's coming from, and I think it's becoming more common now. I'm seeing it talked about more that food can create those symptoms, but that is still a growing base of knowledge, for sure.
Speaker 2:Absolutely. I've interviewed a lot of physicians actually that talk about that and unfortunately, your situation is pretty common, I think, where you go to your medical doctor and they're like, oh, you've got these symptoms, do this, this and this, take the these prescriptions, and I hate taking any kind of medication. I'm not a medication fan at all at all. So so, glad, glad, you do what you do. Well, if, cassidy, if you could think of one thing you would like our listeners to remember about continuum healing arts, what would that be?
Speaker 3:Well, I would love to share that I do have room for new clients and I would love to work with anyone who feels like it might be a good fit. I would also love to offer to all Good Neighbor listeners a free strategy session, which they can get by reaching out to me and just reach out to me by email and let me know that you heard me on the podcast and I would love to connect.
Speaker 2:That's awesome. How, how long does a strategy session take?
Speaker 3:That's a 40 minute session 40 minutes.
Speaker 2:Well, I may, I may be signing up Yep, yep, all right, yep all right. Very cool. And and for those of our listeners, uh, that are interested and would like to to do a strategy session or just learn more about your business, how can they do that?
Speaker 3:uh, my main website is at continuumhealingartscom and I also have another landing page at my Life, unsubscribed, which is that is where I have my digital detox focus, and I am offering a newsletter there where I'm talking about advice and tips for creating more balance in your life between social media or other sources of digital entertainment.
Speaker 2:And and I you know delving a little deeper, but and I know you're busy, but as far from the, the digital detoxing, could you talk a little bit about that, like what? What exactly do you?
Speaker 3:mean, yeah, this is a new direction that I've taken recently and I'm really passionate about.
Speaker 3:I hear a lot of people, my friends and clients included, talking about how they struggle to set boundaries with things like social media or streaming or YouTube, Twitter, things like that that are occupying a lot of their time and negatively impacting their mental health. So digital detox is about setting a period of time during which you are stepping away from those sources of digital dopamine which is what that is and giving yourself a chance to reset Reset your habits, reset your dopamine response and also replace that time with healthier choices. And I have designed a program that walks people through a digital detox over the course of six weeks, where they can make a choice about a source of digital entertainment that they would like to cut out or reduce overall reducing their screen time and building healthier habits and then, at the end of the six weeks, they may choose to introduce those things back or not. They may decide, like you mentioned to me, that you're done with social media and don't want to bring that back in.
Speaker 2:I don't. It's an addiction. I mean, as you mentioned, digital dopamine. It's an addiction like anything else, I mean it truly is yes absolutely Well. I am excited to hear that you're doing that and appreciate it. I'm personally totally understand where you're going and what you're trying to do, so thank you for that and I appreciate your time today and we hope, moving forward, moving forward, wish you, your family and, uh, your dogs and and your business businesses all the best thank you so much.
Speaker 3:I appreciate it.
Speaker 2:Thanks for having me thank you, and maybe we can have you on the show sometime in the future. I would love that.
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