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Kari Kiazyk: From Scoliosis to Sound: One Woman's Healing Revolution
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Imagine living with debilitating pain for three decades, only to discover that the key to freedom wasn't surgery but something far more surprising. This is the remarkable journey of Kari Kiazyk, who transformed her 30-year battle with scoliosis pain into a mission to help others find relief through unconventional but powerful methods.
At just sixteen years old, Kari faced a devastating diagnosis following a gym class accident. Doctors warned she'd be wheelchair-bound by thirty without immediate surgery. Despite this grim prognosis, something deep within her resisted. That intuitive "no" set her on a path that would eventually lead to complete freedom from pain – though not before enduring years of suffering and a near-fatal car accident that became her ultimate wake-up call.
The accident marked a turning point when synchronicities began appearing in Kari’s life. Her introduction to energy healing resonated on a profound level, and after just three sessions with a healer, her pain dropped from a nine to a two. Today, she's been pain-free for over a decade without surgical intervention, despite still having the physical S-curve of scoliosis.
What makes Kari’s approach so revolutionary is her understanding of pain as a messenger rather than an enemy. "Pain is like a fire alarm going off in your body," she explains. "You don't just smash the alarm and walk away—you go to the source." Through her work with crystal singing bowls and energy healing, she helps people access those deeper sources of pain—often emotional or energetic in nature—that conventional treatments can't reach.
The vibrations from sound healing move through water, tissue, and energetic fields, helping regulate the nervous system and dissolve stored emotional residue from grief, stress, and trauma. This modality proves particularly powerful for releasing trauma incurred before we had language to process it.
Ready to transform your relationship with pain? Explore Kari’s work at aligningyourheart.com and discover how addressing the root causes of suffering can lead to lasting relief. Your body has wisdom to share – are you ready to listen?
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Welcome to another episode of Empowered Ease, where we celebrate inspiring women who are making a difference in the lives of others. Today, I have the pleasure of introducing Keri Kysak, a remarkable heart-centered transformational healer and coach and the visionary founder of Aligning your Heart. Keri's journey is one of resilience and empowerment. After enduring debilitating scoliosis pain for over 30 years and being told that surgery was her only option, she chose a transformative path focused on frequency, energy and deep inner alignment, now pain-free for more than a decade. Carrie dedicates her life to helping women shed their physical, emotional and energetic burdens to rediscover their truth and live empowered lives. With a unique blend of energy healing, crystal bowl resonance and intuitive coaching, anchored in the incredible heart light energy that she channels, carrie creates a nurturing space where women feel safe, seen and supported on their journey to self-empowerment, whether it's through private sessions, group experiences or immersive sound journeys. Carrie's work as a speaker, facilitator and founder truly embodies empowerment and transformation. Facilitator and founder truly embodies empowerment and transformation. Join me as we explore Keri Kizak's inspiring story and the transformative power of healing on Empowered Ease.
Speaker 1:Let's start Well. Welcome Keri. Tell me a little bit about yourself and the work you do.
Speaker 2:Yeah, absolutely Well, my life was pretty normal until I was 16. And then, you can imagine, I was in grade 11 in gym class and we were doing pole vaulting, of all things right, and so I cleared the pole but I landed right on my tailbone and in that moment, of course, it knocked my breath right out of me and, you know, in the movement afterwards I could tell something was wrong. So I went to the chiropractor that day and that's when I found out I had scoliosis. So in an instant, you know, life as I knew it had was changed forever, because I didn't even know what it was at the time. And you know what you can imagine at that age, right, other girls were going to parties picking out nice dresses, and here was me.
Speaker 2:I was going to doctors and chiropractors and orthopedic surgeons. So at 16, I was told that it was already so severe that I needed surgery, and he warned me that if I didn't, I would be in a wheelchair by the time I was 30. But it's hard to explain, but there was something inside me that screamed no, like I had never experienced or felt anything like that before in my life. I didn't even have to think about it for a second. Now, that's no comment on surgery, right, like sometimes there's a time and a place for it, but for me it was not right. My body didn't want it. Time and a place for it, but for me it was not right, my body didn't want it. So, so, as you can imagine, after that, for the next 30 years, I did what I could to manage it. You know, going to chiropractors, I wore a brace for a year and and just that whole thing like having that diagnosis this we're talking 40 years ago now.
Speaker 2:So having this diagnosis, people are treating you differently, like there was so much confusion and people weren't aware of what it was, and you know, I had an S curve, and so, anyways, the shame. And looking at your body too, feeling disfigured and you know, because your shoulders are crooked, your hips are crooked, one leg is longer than the other, right, clothes don't fit properly, so there's all this stuff going on there. And the other right Clothes don't fit properly, so there's all this stuff going on there, and so, and then I started, of course, in the workforce and I was like a workaholic. You know, I was the first one at work, the last one to leave, and you can imagine, sitting all day and of course I had to drive an hour and a half to and from work every day. So the long hours sitting and then driving, like the pain was just unbearable, like some days it was so bad I just couldn't even take it anymore and I'd have to escape to my car and, you know, just cry and, yeah, and some days, you know it's so bad you can't even get out of bed. I could only stand for maybe 10 minutes at a time. Like washing dishes or, you know, vacuuming, like just normal things that you take for granted, were required such effort and I was exhausted, in pain and exhausted. So, like I said, I was caught in this rat race of life for 30 years until something quite dramatic actually happened One day.
Speaker 2:I was driving home it was a Thursday and it was in May.
Speaker 2:It was actually a beautiful day and driving home like the same way I always do and I've always done and I was eight minutes from home and there was this gravel truck in front of me and his load was coming out of the back of the truck.
Speaker 2:So there were these patio boulders and bricks that were like all over the place, if you can imagine, scattered across the highway. So in that moment I remember thinking it's like, okay, so what am I going to do here? And then I barely had a moment to think because there was this great big B train semi, fully loaded, on the other side of the highway coming in my direction, and one of the boulders actually knocked open his hood and knocked out his steering. So the last image I had was this great big semi, like I said, coming across the highway into my lane, and I remembered thinking in that moment this is it, like my life is over. And yeah, I remember thinking I've had a nice life because I knew there was nothing I could do. He was going to hit me and so, it's funny, I don't recall feeling fear in that moment. It was just like I surrendered and I accepted what was going to happen.
Speaker 1:And my gosh. I've heard that before. People like feel a deep peace when they accept it.
Speaker 2:Yes, yes, and I remember I just swerved just a little bit to the right, but actually I went underneath the semi a little bit. He ripped off my driver's tire on the front and then the whole side of my car was like all bent in and dented and everything else. So he, basically I went underneath and then it spit me out and it threw me like 300 feet in the ditch and I landed.
Speaker 1:That's what people told you, cause you just remember seeing the semi coming at you. Oh my gosh, it's terrifying.
Speaker 2:Yes, and then I was unconscious for half an hour, cause you can imagine your body hit with that much force. But you know what the universe so had my back, that a nurse just happened to be there on the scene and she kept me from going into shock. I know it was.
Speaker 1:So that warms my heart, like you wouldn't believe.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and of course I don't remember any of this because I was unconscious. But when I finally came to, I remember asking the paramedics it's like, did the semi hit me? And then they said yes, there was impact. And then it's like, why is my car door like way over there? And it's like we had to use the jaws of life to get you woke up on the scene.
Speaker 1:Yes, oh my gosh, yes.
Speaker 2:And then, like the paramedic, like what they said, there was no way anyone could have possibly survived that the amount of damage to my car. And I literally walked away from there with just a little scuff on my nose and like just the left side of my body badly bruised there, with just a little scuff on my nose and like just the left side of my body badly bruised. Oh my gosh. Yeah, that was the only injury you got. That was it.
Speaker 1:Oh my gosh, it's like a miracle. Well, the airbags, of course.
Speaker 2:It felt like someone punched me in the gut but Major bruising, yeah, yeah, but Wow. So, anyways, that was my wake up call, that's what started me on another path and after that accident it's funny you feel like like why did I survive that? You know? I mean, I was grateful, but it's just like you know what I mean, because they said they've seen a lot of accidents where cars were much less damage and people were killed, right right.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, I'm an icu nurse and I've worked trauma before and I work neuro right now, so that we take a lot of trauma. Yeah, it's very, very lucky. Just the impact, the weight of that vehicle alone, plus who knows what speeds you guys are traveling at, so scary yeah, highway speed, I know so it was.
Speaker 2:That was seriously. After that happened, um, of course I. I had post-traumatic stress disorder after that, all the symptoms, sorry, yeah, I had all of that. And so, anyways, after this accident happened, that's when different synchronicities and signs and people started showing up in my life. One job I had, a co-worker came up to me and she started talking to me about energy healing, and it's just like I had never heard of that before. I had no idea what she was talking about, but my body did Like again, something inside my body is just like yes, you know, we have to know more. I was just ravenous. So I was taking courses and learning everything I possibly could.
Speaker 2:I was eventually led to Reiki. I became a Reiki master. I possibly could. I was eventually led to Reiki. I became a Reiki master. I started working with energy and and I actually I went to a healer too, and and I was a little bit skeptical I'm not going to deny that because I thought what they possibly do to me to help me. But I went and, if you're going to believe it, after three sessions my pain went from a level nine to a level two.
Speaker 1:I can't believe it only because recently I've been doing a lot of energy work and very intense sound healing and the effects of those things. I was skeptical as well, but we're just like you. Can't even put words to some of this stuff. I don't even know how to describe the impact they've had, but they have been. It has been so helpful on so many levels.
Speaker 2:Oh yes. And then now today, I've been pain-free for over a decade.
Speaker 1:Oh my gosh, that's amazing. And so you never had any surgical intervention? You don't look like I'm not saying that you can always see like severe scoliosis, but you look very straight, Do you, do you? Do you still have the um, I guess, the physical um, the S curve? Yeah, yeah, Do you still have the S curve? Or have you um done some like physical work as well, Cause I know we're talking a lot about energy and sound, but do you have physical practice with that as well?
Speaker 2:No, like for years. Like I said, for those 30 years chiropractor was my main and of course you're trying to force the spine, but spine didn't want to straighten.
Speaker 1:Um, I'm not still do the chiropractor? Is these like additions? Okay, that's what I was wondering. Like you're not adding on to your therapies, you've replaced them.
Speaker 2:Okay, totally replaced them. Yeah, I've been 10, 11 years, I guess. I have not seen a chiropractor no, I've met him, yeah, yeah, when I was so dependent I was going like every week, you know when you're in pain, but um my, the s-curve is still there, like there's no cure for scoliosis, right still have it, but it's not impacting me in the way that before, when I would look in the mirror. You know you always look for what's wrong and and now I don't notice it anymore.
Speaker 1:So I feel like my posture is straighter.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'm not noticing it anymore. It's still there, but it's not as bad as it was.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I would guess that, like you know, things can over tighten and lose. You know you can have flexibility with it, more or less, so you look like a lot of flexibility. Yes, yes, I do want to mention before we get any further and Carrie educated me about this before we started I did not know, but it actually is scoliosis awareness month and I was unaware of that, so you're the perfect guest for right now. I absolutely love that. Um, so, um, I love this. This is how you found your healing.
Speaker 1:Before we move on a little bit, I can't you've mentioned this twice and I love this because I feel like this is actually a huge problem for a lot of people and a lot of the work that you have to do in the beginning with them. You were saying, like my body said no, and I feel like a lot of times, people, our bodies, are giving us signals and people we're not necessarily able to hear them. So it's so impressive that at a very young age and at this very intense time, you were able to listen and follow those signals that your body was sending you. So I just wonder if you have any insight into, like, how you were able to do that, or for people who struggle with that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, well, okay, so when pain shows up in our body, like in our physical body, like it's been trying to get our attention other ways before, so obviously for 30 years. It's funny, I heard it so clearly at 16. Like you know what I mean, I know, like it's just no, I don't want this surgery. But then for 30 years, like you know, the pain was getting worse and worse and worse. So my body was literally screaming at me and it was not getting my attention at me and I it was not getting my attention right. Because pain is like a fire alarm going off in your body. It's loud, it's persistent, it demands your attention. But the problem, that's the thing here, it's the signal. So you could, you don't just smash the alarm and walk away, right, you go to the source. So it's once I got to the energetic root of the pain, that's things really started to shift. But, yeah, and awareness and acknowledging the pain, that's what I've learned. Now is you?
Speaker 1:know, Don't ignore it.
Speaker 2:No, you don't ignore it. No, and pain isn't the problem. That's one of my core principles. Pain is not the problem, it's a messenger, it's trying to get your attention, like there's quite often there's such a negative, right Image associated with pain. You know, like, say, if you wake up wake up with a sore elbow, pain is scary, too right, like, oh, no, what did I do to cause that pain? Or what's wrong. And then, of course, your mind goes to the worst case scenario right, well, it might be this, it might be that, right, but um, if you just acknowledge the pain, like thank you, pain for bringing this to my attention, you know, and is there a message for me? So it's, it's acknowledging the pain and making space for that pain, right, I love that love that because it's so okay.
Speaker 1:So that is the emotional work that we're all trying to do, right, and we can start on a physical level, because that's a little more baby, right. That's like we're all trying. Well, if we are on a healing journey and consciously trying to heal, I think most of us are trying to learn to sit with our pain on different levels and different ways, different kinds of pain, and this just just such a. I never thought about it on this level, but I love that multi-layered mess of all of this. So one thing I want to ask you about this a little bit before we move on is so how do you acknowledge cause? I know we also feel fear in our bodies, right? So how do you tell the difference between when your body is giving you a fear signal, which isn't necessarily your intuition, and when your body's giving you, like, an intuition of like no, no, no. How do you differentiate that? Or how do how, how should people differentiate that? Do you have any advice?
Speaker 2:Well, yeah, actually it's funny that you brought up fear, because I just wanted to explain, like for myself personally, when I got to the energetic root of the pain. Guess what it was? It was fear-based, yeah, and it wasn't just, it wasn't my fear, it was my mother's fear and it was her mother's fear. There's something that actually happened in the third trimester, Like there was something that caused my mother fear and which caused my spine to you know that deformity in the spine, right Like the curve. So so fear is huge.
Speaker 2:We the issue is that we've been so conditioned to live in survival mode right and everything is fear-based, like that's just our conditioning right and it's what we came into the world with. So that's why when I work with people, I create this very safe, compassionate space because, like we're all like when you're in fear or anxiety, right, like your energy is constricted. So when I'm working with people, I help them to open up and to feel safe, like it's just a very loving, compassionate space. I just naturally bring through these frequencies and so when I'm working with someone, like they really feel held and so they can let their guard down and then we can start to work and clearing out those fear-based things. But until you actually start to release that fear, that conditioning, then you're not able to hear what your body's saying.
Speaker 1:I love that. That's a great description, yeah, so how do you translate this into helping others? Do you work with women who have scoliosis? Do you work with people in chronic pain in general? What are, what are the kinds of people women that you're working with?
Speaker 2:I help people who are suffering in, they're in pain. Now, it doesn't necessarily have to be physical pain, it can be emotional, it can be mental, um, or even spiritual. I'm I, I lately I've been focusing on, on scoliosis and and chronic pain because you know, like I said once you're, the pain is in your body, like your body is screaming to get your attention. And then I believe, at the root of every kind of physical pain, there's an emotional, there's an energetic component, right, emotional or mental. So, um, anyone who's suffering is basically but yeah, chronic pain is where I really shine helping people.
Speaker 1:There's a huge I feel like that is a growing population of people living with chronic pain too, because we're such a well, at least in this country I don't know about Canada, but we have such similar cultures I think that people stuff a lot and stuff their emotions and you know we're very good at what is that word. Oh, my gosh, when you separate yourself from your body, disconnected, yeah, we're disassociating, and so I was looking for but yes, thank you, like we're very good at that and just shoving stuff away. So, yeah, I don't know where I was going with that, but I just think it like translates a lot to this and the pain that comes up and all the chronic illness. That's where I was was going with that. I think it's a growing population.
Speaker 1:I actually had one of my most popular episodes as a non-profit that helps people with chronic illnesses who kind of fall between which. I think most people with chronic pain do. You fall between this gray area where there's not really support available for you, and you look normal. So people treat you like you, you know, with the expectations of someone who functions normally, but the chronic illnesses are not seen, chronic pain is not seen, and so, anyway, this nonprofit is just blowing up. It's interesting how many people are living with this nowadays and how like our culture is really seems like it's getting sicker in some ways.
Speaker 2:Yeah, well, that was me like for 30 years. On the outside I looked fine, right, you couldn't tell, like, the pain and how much I was suffering on the inside because you want to hide it, right, there's, there's shame around that. And, yeah, no, it's, it's awful Cause, yeah, yeah, no, it's everywhere. You're right, Everyone. There's so many people you don't know who's suffering and who isn't, because we've all been taught, right, like to stuff it all down and keep it in. And so you know what, after my sessions, like everyone feels so much lighter because so many people don't realize just symptoms, right, but what I do is I go back to the origin point, to the point before the pain, before the pain started. That's where I track it back to.
Speaker 2:So, um, that's what's so powerful about the work that I do. So I really like to work with people who've tried everything. You know what I mean. I help them find lasting relief without endless treatments, without medication, like without um, surgery and all that kind of stuff. So if you've tried everything else and you're not having any luck, then that's those people I really like to work with to get to the root of their pain and suffering.
Speaker 2:Because you know what, when I was caught in that cycle for 30 years. I had just accepted it. You know, I thought this was my lot in life, and I always justified it too, because I thought so many other people have it so much worse than I do. You know, for me it's just this back pain that doesn't want to go away. But I accepted it and I had no idea that not having pain, living pain free, was even a possibility. It wasn't even in my realm of thinking Soibility, yeah, yeah. So to be on the other side of that, like I am so grateful every day that I wake up and I'm not in pain.
Speaker 1:It's just yeah, so how?
Speaker 2:does the energy work and the sound healing help people address these issues? Yeah, okay. So with sound healing, and especially with the crystal bowls, you're listening not just with your ears but with your whole body. So that's one thing most people are up in their heads, right and they're trying to understand. So I, when you're listening this way, your cells are listening, your nervous system is listening, you're listening with your whole body. The vibration moves through water, through tissue, through your energetic field, and it reaches those places that words and thoughts can't touch.
Speaker 2:So I bring through these beautiful healing frequencies, I channel them when I'm playing the bowls and it really helps to calm the mind, to regulate the nervous system and it gently dissolves the energetic residue of these old patterns, the grief, the stress, the trauma. So it's like your system gets to remember this state of Harmony that it may not have felt in a very long time. So sound is so special because it opens a door to deep release, not by pushing but by inviting. It helps the body to feel safe, to soften, realign and to receive something new. So it's this beautiful experience of returning to yourself, because we all have the ability to heal, like our bodies are beautiful, they are wonderful. They're so intelligent, so it's just helping the person remember and open up to that again.
Speaker 1:It's so funny. Everything you said, my brain is like oh my God.
Speaker 2:Oh my.
Speaker 1:God, Because, like so I mentioned, I just went through this. I I had I did like a month long coaching with a woman who I'm going to have her on and talk more about it, but it started with the well. Part of the beginning of it was this like hour long sound healing that she did like around my body and I at the time was working with a trauma therapist as well, and I had trouble recovering most of my memories from my childhood. I just don't remember much. Like you know, when asked to provide memories, there was probably eight of good and bad combined that I could come up with on the spot.
Speaker 1:And, um, after experiencing this sound healing, without even trying, like just relaxing, so many memories were just unlocked at interesting times and it wasn't like like a flashback or like when things come up in a hard way. It came up and I'll tell you, it felt it sounds silly, but it almost felt like things were broken loose. They float to the surface Like I, I like moved through the emotion of it and then it's so easily left. And I felt through the emotion of it and then it's so easily left and I felt more peace with those situations than I thought was possible without any effort at all, and they were things like I recovered memories that helped me understand things about why I am the way I am, without even trying, you know. I mean I said we set an intention before I started, of course, and I felt like I had so many experiences like that, and not just like right away after the session, for the next like month and a half I had dreams or just memories or you know, simple things that were coming. One of my favorites was I was just having trouble sleeping one night and I could remember my entire childhood yard like silly things, like where I used to play Cause we kind of grew up in the woods, and it was just one of the most beautiful, comforting memories for me.
Speaker 1:And all of this came from sound healing and one of the just when I brought it back to my trauma therapist cause I'm like what is going on? She was just saying that, like you know, a lot of things that can happen to us, happen before we have words to put to them. Some, a lot of emotions are way too complex to put our simple language to. So to even try to talk about it, you're not going to get the full release, Because for me personally, a lot of my trauma incurred before I had probably language, especially language, to describe the things that I had trauma from. So there is not going to be a way to release that with words, because they didn't even exist when I incurred that pain, incurred that scar or whatever it was. So sound healing is just this like profound way to move all of that energy and I just found so much and I'm obsessed right now. I'm so happy you're here to talk about it more, so tell us more. I love this.
Speaker 2:Yes, yes, no, thank you. Yeah, cause sound. Our body stores everything, like you said, things that words can't even put to, things that we don't want to deal with, right, push down things that we don't remember, our ancestors right, our our, you know, generational issues, like all this stuff gets pushed in and stored in the body and so subconscious programming that's yes, already in there.
Speaker 2:Yeah yes, so yeah, and when I'm working with someone, like I said, like I've had people fall asleep and that's perfectly fine, we always record it so you can return to it later and it goes deeper every single time.
Speaker 2:But you just sit back and that's all you have to do is listen and just be present and, like, my special gift is really holding someone's heart. You know, creating this beautiful, loving, like I said, compassionate space, like you're really feel held when you're working with me and then you just sit back and you relax and I just I'm talking and I'm guiding you through it. But the thing is like I'm working with your subconscious and we're doing deep, deep release, like going down to the cells. It's a deep recalibration and it's the everything that you've pushed down, like all this energetic and emotional weight, like it just starts to release and very gently come to the surface and, like you said, it's you're not reliving it in any way, it's just being present with it. It's just you know what I mean. You're just being present and witnessing it coming up to the surface and releasing, and so yeah it is so powerful, it's so beautiful and I just love it.
Speaker 2:And, like I said, these special, I channel these frequencies that are specific. So every session, like everyone's unique, so every session is deeply personalized to the person and I tune into their higher self and talk to them about what they think is going on and we get to the root of it and then, you know, I just bring through these energies and I play the crystal bowls Like it's just a beautiful, beautiful experience.
Speaker 1:It sounds awesome. I love it. I think so many people are missing out on things like this that you don't even know. I mean, it's so, it's so effortless to as long as you just open yourself to it a little.
Speaker 1:So I just absolutely love people like you who are willing to talk about it because it's hard to talk about, because it's hard to put words to these experiences, it's hard to describe what's happening and there's not a lot of physical things you can touch about it, and so for someone who's skeptical, it's really easy to discredit this stuff. But when you open yourself to it, I feel like it's just so profound how much of an impact it can have, and it's intense and it's not all at the same time.
Speaker 2:Yes, yes, it really is. But see, the thing is what I've noticed too, like some people that are really closed off, like, of course you know, when you work with them, like one session just starts to get things going. But if you're really closed off you might take some extra work just to get them to start to open. But once you open up to it, it's incredibly profound, you know, because it's all the conditioning, it's the subconscious. You have to make the body, the person's body, feel safe to open.
Speaker 1:And then you just start feeling things. That is happy tears too, just like good emotions too. So much just flowing through you when you allow yourself to finally feel some things.
Speaker 2:I know I had one lady. She said she knew she was in trouble. Like I had just started playing the crystal bowls and the tears were coming and I said that is so beautiful, that is a release, you know, like your body has been waiting, like your body's waiting to exhale, just to feel safe and held Right. Heart release Like, oh, I don't have to carry this anymore. You know what I mean, it's just.
Speaker 1:And how many tears have we all shoved down to stop crying, like you know what I mean.
Speaker 2:We a lot of us don't let ourselves cry.
Speaker 2:We need to cry, we do need to cry. Well, we've been taught like crying is a sign of weakness, right, even as a baby, right, you're being told to be quiet and yeah, but no crying. And there's so much sadness, like when I'm doing work in people's hearts and and people not feeling worthy to receive right, and we're so conditioned to put everyone else before us. So I've got to, you know, do some work in the heart space just to start to open that up a little bit, because there's so much armor. We put these walls around our heart to protect ourselves from being hurt, but you know we don't need that anymore. And I had one lady that had a terrible time sleeping and, uh, you know, when I was tuning in and working on her, like she was just in this hypervigilant state, you know, like always looking over her shoulder, right, like something bad's going to happen. So started working with her and she was able to start to. You know, let that go.
Speaker 1:And so it's working on that survival mode, right, yeah reprogramming your nervous system a little bit to a state of like relaxation and safety.
Speaker 2:Yes, yes, beautiful.
Speaker 1:Beautiful. So if people are listening to the yeah, I was gonna say people are listening to this and they're like what? Oh my gosh, what is this Like? How do I learn more? So where? Where would you advise people to start? What kind of advice do you give people who may be hearing this for the first time? Get a little skeptic and be like you know what? Maybe I want to.
Speaker 2:Maybe I want to check out my website. So, wwwaligningyourheartcom. So yeah, like for me, the heart is everything. You got to start in the heart and do the work here, and then it ripples outward. You do that. See, people aren't happy with what's going on in their life, and you know what I mean. You have to start doing the work inside, and it all starts with the heart. I believe that so profoundly. Once you do that work in the heart, you'll see things start to shift. So, aligning your heart, it's all about alignment, coming back into alignment, and you know what Scoliosis actually means misaligned with life, if you can imagine.
Speaker 1:So we're in scoliosis month. I love it. I also love that you said oh my gosh, am I blanking on it now I'm having a day or night I might have to edit this part out. Oh my gosh, it'll come to me, I'll have to edit that part out, sorry. Yeah, I really wanted to ask you about. I wanted to ask you about because you mentioned that a lot of people with their heart work have trouble feeling worthy and I feel like you know there's we all have these like very primal, subconscious wounds and being worthy of taking care of ourselves or, you know, to take up any space in this world. Or even you know, like I think that, like a lot of people, they may just have to start with, like it's okay to even put this much effort into myself. I am worth putting this effort back into myself and not constantly trying to help everyone else around me.
Speaker 2:Yes, I love that you mentioned that, yeah, and clearing the guilt and the shame of actually spending time on yourself. You know what I mean. It's just yeah, yeah, it's. It's so powerful working with the heart and you have so many people. There's so much sadness in the heart and even grief, like, if you can imagine, I was actually holding on to grief too, grief of the life that I had before the pain, and you know, and we all hold on to these different roles and identities and associated with the pain. I did that. I kept saying my scoliosis, my scoliosis. I don't do that anymore, but you know what I mean don't do that anymore.
Speaker 1:But you know what I mean. You learn to identify with the pain. So, yeah, labels can really like close you off without even knowing it. When you start using them too much, they can really limit your what you see for yourself. Um, so I know that because this is scoliosis awareness month, you have some special um events going on coming up. Do you want to tell us a little bit about the events you have going on this month?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'm doing four different workshops. It's called Healing Beyond the Curve and we are looking at discussing what scoliosis is, how it makes you feel and all the different things that it brings up, and actually I've got a link I can. But, yeah, it's beautiful, it's a very powerful workshop and, uh, actually I have a sound healing circle, so I introduced a little bit of sound healing at the end. So just get a little bit of an experience of what it is. And you know, we talk about all the different emotions and kind of that stuff that we're talking about here. So it it's, um, it's very powerful and there's two more left and you can also get the replays when you sign up for it.
Speaker 1:But yes, well, I'll put all these links in the show notes. You just forward me all the links to all that stuff and I'll put it in the show notes. So if you can just click anywhere you find the episode, you'll find it with the description. I know you have other events going on throughout the year that you hold monthly too. What are those that you do?
Speaker 2:Yes, unlock the hidden pain code. So I'm sort of teaching people about how to understanding pain, like what pain means, and that it's pain is not your enemy, it's your guide, right, and I talked about how important safety is and about the nervous system regulation and, of course, bringing in your heart and, yeah, just educating people on you know pain and the deeper levels and not seeing it.
Speaker 1:Like I said, it's not the enemy, it's a messenger signal, yeah, and so, yeah, your body's trying to tell you something and we, of looking at it, you know, like, acknowledging it, being present with it, listening to it, well, yeah, and I want to say, you know, with that, there are a lot of people who don't want to hear about it because maybe they don't understand, you know, they're privileged enough to not have to, to not understand that kind of suffering.
Speaker 1:But the importance of finding people that do, you know, like it hasn't come up a while, but most episodes like healing and community comes up as part of um, as part of this, of of the healing process. And I would say this is one of your community, or a community like it. When you're experiencing chronic pain, to be sure that you surround yourself with people that validate and, um, you know, acknowledge that that's real for you, because anybody who's not is not worth, you know, sharing with. We all need people who can understand our suffering to be able to talk to, and if they're not in our lives or in our family, we have to go a little further to find them, whether that's a support group, a coaching group, something like that.
Speaker 2:But we need people that understand what we're going through to be able to heal properly, to be validated, really, oh yeah, I say that all the time, like I see you, you know what I mean and I hear you, I'm listening and I'm holding space for you. Yeah. Because I don't like when people are suffering, like my heart just goes out because I mean I want to help you heal and move past this.
Speaker 1:Yes, me too. I'm a big like empath. I've like, I have a lot of heart, love energy, whatever I do, energy work. People are always talking about like that, where that comes from for me, and.
Speaker 1:I feel it like, now that I've acknowledged it a little more, I feel it. I feel like you know a bit a huge empath to that stuff. So, um, that's why I do this work and why you do this work, I'm sure, cause it's just I have to. I have to. It's what makes me feel good. It's my purpose, that makes me feel, um, like my place in the world.
Speaker 1:Um, I do want to ask you before I forget because I ask every guest this what whenever things get overwhelming for you or you're having a hard time or life just isn't going the way you want? I used to say what is your self-care? But Dr Lori Laws told me to say what is your self-nurturing? But what's your go-to, that, when you need to take care of you, that you go to to feel better?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I actually take a step back, you know, remove myself from the situation and just sit and be present with myself, you know placing my hand on my heart or sitting in front of my bowls, but just tuning inwards.
Speaker 1:Checking in with what your needs are in the moment.
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 1:I love that.
Speaker 2:Or going out in nature, sitting in the sun in my garden. But you know what I mean. It's just a moment, just being present with myself or being present with nature.
Speaker 1:I love that. I love that. Okay, well, so tell me. I think I don't know if you've said your website on here, but tell like. So if people don't want to like look it up and they have a great memory, will you say your website and where people can go to find you?
Speaker 2:Yes, it's wwwaligningyourheartcom.
Speaker 1:Beautiful, beautiful, and so in the next couple of weeks you have events on Thursdays in June, correct, and then monthly you also have an event for pain. So if people are interested you can check her out there and find also any links in the show notes. Is there anything else you want to leave us?
Speaker 2:with before we go. Yeah, I'm just so passionate about helping people find relief. That, just what lights me up, it's just seeing people heal. You know from the suffering that they're going through. What I want to you don't have to suffer and you're not alone, like there are people here to help you and there is relief. Relief is possible. So I just want you to know that, like your body isn't broken, your pain isn't your identity, so it just. I invite you to, you know, to tune in to your heart and just just take a moment and be present with yourself and just tune into what truth your body is ready to reveal. Right, cause I help people remember the truth of who they are. You know their greatness and their power, right, I love that. That's beautiful and you're worth it.
Speaker 1:You're worth taking that time and you're worth finding that for beautiful and you're worth it. You're worth taking that time and you're worth finding that for yourself and you're worth healing and living. You know, yes, very powerful. Well, thank you so much. I really enjoyed, like your honesty, your willingness to dive deep and talk about stuff that sometimes can be a little difficult to talk about. So thank you so much for coming on today, carrie I I hope you have a wonderful day and next time you have something coming up, I hope you come visit us again and tell us what's going on in your world.
Speaker 2:Definitely. Thank you so much. It was a pleasure, thank you.
