​Pamela is a client of mine. She was miserable in her marriage. Her relationship with her husband was slowly but steadily disintegrating taking a painful toll on her life. Honoring her life mission and spiritual teachings, she decided to remain in this unhappy relationship for the sake of her children. She knew that living with both their parents was important for their healthy development. This was her choice, a logical, mindful decision that both her instinct and heart agreed upon. She chose a higher spiritual priority that was both wise and sane. But what about her other energetic needs?
 
Your second energy system, the second chakra, is about life joys and pleasure, about intimate relationships. It is about living with passion, excitement, creativity and meaning.
And, your third center is about strength, about setting your boundaries, not allowing anyone to step on our toes… It is about reclaiming responsibility for our own life and ditching the helplessness mentality.
 
For Pamela, both energy centers were out of balance… She was suffering!
 
Pamela denied her need for warmth and compassion, for the love and intimacy expected in a healthy marriage. She also fell into a victimhood mentality and a self-pity mode that weakened her self-esteem and damaged her sense of self-worth.
 
Gradually, her body ‘whispers’ started. They first appeared as a passion for new hobbies and entertainment. She always wanted to paint and draw, so she started taking drawing and painting classes. Still, she wasn’t fulfilled. She surfed the Internet for hours in an aimless search for pleasure and gratifications. Soon enough, her addiction started… A book addiction. Strange, isn’t it? When we hear the word addiction, our mind immediately shifts towards drugs or alcohol, but addiction has many ugly faces … any desire or passion, any ‘want’ that you fail to voluntarily control could easily turn into an addiction.
 
Pamela started ordering books online. She waited for the book delivery like a paramour waiting for his lover. As soon as the books arrived, before even reading the first page, she swiftly scanned the bibliography section, returned to the internet and ordered more books… and more… and more… In her mind, she needed something to live for; a reason for her to wake up in the morning and this was her reason- waiting for her books to arrive. Since this is not exactly a solution for her energetic needs, she was drowning in a vicious cycle.
 
Be it an addiction to drugs, cigarettes or alcohol, or be it to money, power, looks, shopping, food, or even books, these are all equally powerful and harmful. Money, wealth, position, power, food, looks, sex, emotions, even entertainment and leisure can all turn into addictions if attachment to them is strong enough that they become your reason to wake up in the morning and pursue your life.
 
When she came to see me, Pamela hormonal system was a mess.
She suffered from painful PMS, chronic vaginal candidiasis, and recurrent ovarian cysts… her OB/GYN suggested surgery but she was highly reluctant.
 
It was time for Pamela to do some changes in her life… It was time to set boundaries and demand some respect and appreciation… By changing her attitude and assuming responsibility for her life, by ditching the victimhood mentality and finding real meaning and passion, Pamela regained her sense of self and with it she regained her health.
 
Of course, along with emotional and spiritual support, Pamela’s body needed attention. She added cruciferous vegetables, green leaves and mushrooms to everyday diet to balance her hormones and help her liver detoxify excess estrogen. She also followed a low glycemic load diet to balance her blood sugar and control her addiction.
Whether your Whispers come in form of hormonal imbalance like Pamela’s or they surface as random aches and pain, digestive issues, thyroid nodules, autoimmunity or heart disease… they all carry a valuable message… They are here to tell you that something needs to change in your life…
 
In my work I teach women how to listen to their Body Whispers and decode their meanings, how to rekindle passion and joy in their life and how to turn their kitchen into a healing dispensary…
 
If what you’ve been doing hasn’t been working.
If your body is still complaining with random aches and pains that no one has answer for.
If you have the urge to do something different.
If you know that you’re meant for so much more and are just feeling a little lost on what that change should be or how to get there... contact me… Let’s schedule your healing journey!
 
 
With health & healing,
 
Amira

​How many times did you feel the need to press a pause button? The need to just stop and catch your breath? How many times did you catch yourself running and racing, not even knowing what you are racing for or where you are heading? How many times did you feel tumbling in a hectic stressful reality?
 
We've all been there. An exhausting mode of living that our modern lifestyle imposed on us without our consent. We all need this critical balance. Balance between the demands of our body, our material life and logical mind on one side and between the needs of our heart and soul on the other.
 
Health stems from the ability to synchronize with the delicate flow of life, with all its ups and downs, joys and sorrows. It is the willingness to open your heart to receive the subtle grace that the world offers every step along your way. It is the ability to acknowledge and laugh at the setbacks and gently and humbly celebrate the joys. We need to TRUST the big plan of life, the Ultimate Wisdom of our Creator... We need to Surrender while believing that everything happens for our ultimate good.

This verse keeps coming back to me again and again: "In order that you do not despair over what has eluded you and not over-exult in pride over what God has given you.” (57: 23). It doesn’t ask you to suppress your joy or avoid pleasures, nor does it expect from you to never experience sadness, frustration, anger or pain. It just lays a universal truth that we are not our possessions, belongings or entourage; we are not our achievements, successes, ranks or prestige… It is good to experience these; it is great to enjoy them. Yet, never let yourself be attached to them... Detachment is the ultimate fruit of surrender…
Life requires us to work and strive. It requires courage to keep going. It requires momentum. Meanwhile, it also requires patience, flexibility and bravery.

Living a heart-centered life helps us slow down and ponder at life lessons, challenges and stresses.  It helps us find the perfect rhythm that sets in coherence our inner-self with our outer reality. Yet, to reach this heart coherence, we need to hush down our brain endless chatter. We need to surrender and trust. We need to believe!
 

​Imagine living life free from ailments pain and disease… Imagine waking up every day full of health, energy and vitality… While no one can guarantee full health, we now know enough about the root causes and risk factors to help us prevent a life-long suffering.
Studies show that women top 5 most common health concerns are:

1. Heart disease
2. Breast cancer
3. Osteoporosis
4. Depression
5. Autoimmune diseases

 
I see these 5 concerns again and again in my practice and the rates are alarmingly rising every year.
Healthy eating, healthy lifestyle, managing stress and proper nutrition & supplementations all play a major role in healing, but they are far from being the main piece of the puzzle… Over and over again, I come back to the same advice: LISTEN!
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We need to learn how to feed our hearts and souls as we are learning to feed our bodies. Listening to your body whispers is a skill you need to cultivate… You need to weave everyday habits into your life that help you calm down your mind chatter, slow down the rat race and live in the moment.
 

When your heart ‘hurts’, it is trying to tell you that it needs more love, care and nurture. It is trying to convey its feeling of being cut off the world wandering on its own, un-supported and un-assisted. It is trying to say that life is becoming overwhelming beyond its coping ability.
 
Breast cancer sufferers have a tendency of over nurturing others while neglecting or rather denying their own needs for love and care. They usually have a history of repressed love, mothering too much or too little, losing a loved one or being betrayed by a loved one.
 
Osteoporosis starts as whispers for your soul to search for belonging, for grounding, for support. Your life big purpose and meaning should be addressed along with a lurking need to unleash your creative powers and passions.
 
When you are depressed, your body is trying to push you to search for a deeper life purpose and meaning… to search for what will excite you and reignite your passion in life. Sometimes it is a long search and a tedious journey, yet it is a journey we must embark on in order to heal, in order to recover from those depressing feelings of lack of belonging, lack of safety and security, lack of meaning in life.
 
The whispers of autoimmune disease start very subtle that we easily brush them aside and go on with our lives until they abruptly turn into shouts and screams. Our body is literally and figuratively under attack... Attack from its own rebellious immune cells. Self-love, self-care and self-acknowledgement are big issues here as the whispers are trying to tell you that there are massive feelings of rejection, guilt, and abandonment. There are lots of emotions and meanings that should be addressed and explored: feelings of belonging, safety and security; feelings of love, peace and forgiveness; feelings of connection with your own higher beliefs, spirituality and trust.
 
Again, as I always warn, if your ‘whispers’ reach a stage where they are manifested physically, you need to physically tend to the body with the proper nutrition, supplements and/or medical intervention from a qualified MD if needed along with tending to your heart and soul needs.
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​In every day life, we bump into people and they bump into us… It doesn’t hurt… we all learn, we grow, we toughen…
But, when we have an open wound, bumping could be really painful… people do not see, our wound. It is hidden under layers and layers of clothing… So, when they accidentally bump into us and we scream and shout in pain, they don’t understand… And it’s not their fault… they didn’t cause our wound, they are not responsible for it, they don’t even know it is there.
 
We need to take a break… sit by ourselves for sometime, tend to our wound, gently clear it, cleanse it, disinfect it…
Pouring disinfectant on our wound might burn even more; but neglecting it will make it even worse. It will drill down to our core, infest and intoxicate our system… we need to purify, revitalise and refresh… may be we’ll need some help from a friend, a family member, a coach or a therapist… or may be we just need to sit by ourselves for some time… Whatever it takes…
 
When we heal our wound, we’ll be ready to mingle through life again… only then, everyday bumping won’t hurt as much… it will toughen our skin further and teach us to better navigate through life in the future.
 
Dear fragile soul, where are you hurting? What wound(s) do you need to take care of before the pain becomes unbearable, before it robs sleep off your eyes and wipes the smile off your life? What wound(s) do you need to take care of before it gets so inflamed and sore that even passing by it without even touching it hurts?
 
It’s okay to announce it… it is okay to tell everybody: “Excuse me as I need some time for my self… I’m working on some personal issues right now” You are actually doing them a favour, you’re giving them permission to work on their own personal issues, because, you know what, we all have wounds and we all hide them under layers and layers of make up, clothing and embellishment.
 
Some wounds have been there for so long that we forgot about them… we wonder why a tiny bump or even a friendly pat could hurt so badly… we hid our wounds so well that even we fail to acknowledge their presence…
No wound can heal when buried… it needs to be exposed… it needs the fresh air and gentle breeze and sometimes it needs to be disinfected…
 
So, dear beloved soul, don’t hide your wounds… Carve time off your busy schedule to tend to your injuries and hurts… Carve time off your busy schedule to heal…

This is the story of a client of mine. Let’s call her Mary. This, of course, is not her real name. Mary is a 54-year-old high school teacher living with her husband in a calm and friendly neighbourhood. Mary’s neighbours like her cheerful welcoming spirit as they greet her every morning on their way to work. Yet, Mary’s life is not as easy as it looks from the outside.
 
One night, the serene neighbourhood was disturbed by the sound of the ambulance at 2:00 am. Mary was rushed to the hospital with sharp pain in her chest. She was admitted immediately to the operating room for coronary bypass surgery.
If we take a closer look at Mary’s life, we will understand the source of her ‘broken’ heart. Mary is a caring loving wife. She spent the last 15 years of her marriage nurturing her husband who suffered from bipolar disorder. Her husband chronic health problems drained her energy and isolated her from any form of social life.
 
Mary drew a nice smile on her face every morning while her heart was bleeding and her energy was draining.  She loved her husband despites his endless fits. Still, she needed to be loved and nurtured in return. Her heart longed for its missing source of energy. And, as she ignored her Body Whispers for years, they shouted louder and louder until they turned into screams.
 
Mary’s operation was a wake-up call. Her life was at stake and she needed to do some changes. Many times, we cannot change our environment or circumstances, but we sure can change our perceptions, beliefs and choices and these are what matter the most.
 
As I helped Mary change her diet, manage her stress and choose a healthy lifestyle. I also helped her heal her heart, which is the crucial factor in her healing journey.  
She needed to ditch the victimhood mentality and proceeded to embrace life with all its ups and downs. She also learned to add joys into her everyday existence; she re-engaged with her community and chose to embrace her experience with grace and gratitude not helplessness and despair.
 
And, as she added little pleasures, excitements and joys into her life, she no longer needed fats and sweets as her emotional comfort. She learned to nurture her heart and soul and properly nourish her body and feed her mind.
 
With an uplifted spirit and regained stamina, Mary now had more energy to take better care of her husband and give him the love and support he needed. Not, surprisingly, this amazing change in her personality and temper was soon reflected on his behaviour and the bipolar cycling pattern was greatly reduced. When he was in his depressive/down state, Mary had the energy to give him the care and love he needed and when he was in his grandiose/ manic phase, she now had the patience and tolerance to embrace the experience.
 
Mary’s story is one of tens I meet every day. The story may change, but the underlying pattern is always the same… LISTEN. Deep inside, your heart knows what it really needs. All you have to do is listen!
 
 
When we talk about heart energy, love and care, we take it abstractly, we just don’t really feel it. Our modern society taught us that if it is not seen, touched or heard than it does not exist. If science didn’t prove it, then it can’t be true… Well, science has proven it, but yet it cannot explain it.
Dr. Bernie Siegel says:
"Unconditional love is the most powerful known stimulant of the immune system. If I told patients to raise their blood levels of immune globulins or killer T cells, no one would know how. But if I can teach them to love themselves and others fully, the same changes happen automatically. The truth is: love heals" 
 
All traditional cultures emphasized the role of the heart in the human spiritual journey. Now science is starting to acknowledge the heart as more than a mere pump that delivers blood to our organs.
There is no better time in history for us to remind ourselves of the crucial need for us to heal our hearts.
 
We now know that love, care, peace, and forgiveness can physically heal while anger, grudge and hatred can precipitate bodily illness. We know that fear, stress and worry compromise our immunity and alter our physiology.
 
This is my invitation to all of us to start restoring love and care in our hearts so that we can restore health to our bodies and peace to our planet.