The Healer Within
A Life-Affirming Movement Putting Your Health, Your Healing & Your Life Back Into Your Own Hands
You know in your bones that the marketing fads (scares) telling you what it means to be healthy are not working for you, but you don't know what else to do
You are ready to work with healthcare practitioners as a co-creator of your health & well-being
You are ready to see the aches, pains and illnesses of your body as vital information
You long to feel more present & connected to yourself & Something Greater
You sense there is more purpose & meaning to your life than you are currently living
You want to be brave enough to get to the root of what is not working in your life & why so you can discover the true healing and growth that is possible for you
You are ready to get off the hamster wheel of knowing that something needs to change, but not being able to make that shift alone
We live in expert-driven times where how we take care of ourselves is based on the “expert” opinion of another person. Where we’re so detached from our own bodies and their messages that we need somebody else outside of us to interpret them, and tell us what we need. This might look like all the internet searches you do to try and figure out what’s happening in your body…Or it might look like going from specialist to specialist trying endless, invasive procedures to “fix” what’s wrong with you.
This leaves us disempowered and disconnected from ourselves and the wisdom contained within our bodies. We become reliant upon outside sources to be able to take care of ourselves and to know what we need. And we pathologize the messages our bodies are trying to send us; making it the goal to “shut them up” as quickly as possible.
We do this because we don’t know any other way. We don’t know how to care for ourselves in a skilled and satisfying manner. We don’t know how to co-create healing with our health practitioners. And we definitely don't know how to claim the inner strength and sovereignty of being a woman who knows herself and what she needs beyond what she has been told and sold.
We are naturally, without needing any formal training, the healers, the mid-wives and the ones who pass the ancient healing and life-giving ways on to our families, friends and communities. We are the ones who hold the knowledge that create the sustaining rituals and nourishments that honor real human needs and the magnificence and capacity of the human spirit.
But in this day and age, many of us are disconnected from this inner knowing, leaving us unable to help ourselves or those we love in ways that reflect what we are truly capable of both individually and collectively.
We explore what it really takes to be healthy, to heal and to live a life that makes sense to you. Concepts we hear a lot about these days, but maybe don’t really know what they mean or how to get there. That's why we "get there" by focusing on simple, accessible and timeless concepts and practices that put you in the position of knowing yourself inside and out, helping you to ask and answer the big questions in Life: What is health? What does it mean to heal? What does it take to thrive as a human being?
Topics you can expect us to work with include:
Best of all, this is not another information dump. Your ability to tap into you and what you need most in life must be an embodied experience. Which is why we will be practicing and experimenting with different techniques and perspectives to give you a chance to see what works best for you. That exploration will include going from what is physical and practical to what is magical and mystical.
After each gathering, you will receive an audio recording and other resources to support your continued exploration over the next month to help you make the teachings and the techniques your own. Taken together, these are lessons in living that you can apply in your own life and then bring to your loved ones.
We gather live virtually, from January to June, on the 4th Thursday of each month from 6:30-8pm EST. Come for a month or the whole series. In each session, we cover a foundational topic to support you in becoming your own Healer Within: The one who knows how to heal herself and then pass that healing on into the world.
Welcome To The Healer Within
Making The Most of The Healer Within
The Healer Within Begins Within
The Three Principles Video
The Three Principles Written
An Introduction To The Archetypes
Paradigm Exploration: Changing Your Beliefs
The Healer Within Embodiment Manifesto
Access Our Private Community Chat Here
Relevant Health & Healing Articles From My Weekly Blog
One-on-One Support Work With Susan
Common Sense Approaches for When You're Sick
Simple Do-Able Recipes for Health & Well-Being
Ensuring a Good Fit With Your Healing Practitioner
Practitioner Page
Creating Your Own Medicine Bag: DIY Health & Healing
Book Recommendations
Principle One: You Must Be In Your Body Video
The Hermit Archetype Video
The Hermit Archetype Written
You Cannot Trust A Body You Are Not In Video Experience
Space Hygiene 101
A Sacred Personal Space Exploration
Live Session Recording
Slides From Live Gathering Session I
Session One: Companion Audio
Session Overview: Space, Being in Your Body, The Hermit & Radical Personal Responsibility
Pertinent Resources
Principle One: Being In Your Body (Even When It Hurts)
Thinking About Your Body is Not The Same As Being In Your Body
The Healer Archetype Video
The Healer Archetype Written
Chiron Audio & Exercise
Presence & Surrender Video
A Personal Exploration of Mindfulness
Live Session Recording
Slides From Live Gathering Session II
Session Two: Companion Audio
Session Overview: Presence, Being in Your Body, The Healer & Surrender
Pertinent Resources
Principle Two: Learning the Language of Your Body Part 1
The Mother Archetype Video
The Mother Archetype Written
Tending To Your Body's Basic Needs Part 1
Tending To Your Body's Basic Needs Part 2 Video
Body Basics Specific Tips
Tending to Your Body's Basics Additional Support Written
Live Session Recording
Slides From Live Gathering Session III
Session Three Audio Companion: The Breath
Session Overview: Honoring The Body's Basics, Language of The Body, The Mother, Unconditional Love & Acceptance
Pertinent Resources
Principle Two: Learning The Language Of The Body Part 2
The Alchemist Archetype Video
The Alchemist Archetype Written
Creating a Provings Journal
When Something Isn't Resolving
The Mind: Reminder & Tips
Live Session Recording
Slides From Live Gathering IV
Session Four Companion Audio: Being With the Language of the Body
Session Four Companion Audio: Thought Labelling
Session Overview: Mending The Mind, Language of The Body, The Alchemist & Patience
Pertinent Resources
Susan McNamara
Thirty-five years ago my own journey into The Healer Within began. It came in the form of a simple, but profound knowing: "There has got to be more to Life than how I am living, what I am being told, and what I have come to believe." All these decades later, I am here saying to you, "There is."
What I have to offer you is my personal experience, the trainings I have undertaken, the way I live my life, my commitment to service and the ongoing learnings I continue to do.
Specifically, I am a Certified Holistic Health Counselor, Professional-Level Kripalu Yoga Teacher, Shamanic Practitioner and Journeydance Guide. I am trained in Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction, Somatics and Energy Medicine. I hold a Masters in Counseling Psychology and am trained and educated at the doctoral level in Clinical Psychology. For almost twenty years, I taught the college course Relaxation Techniques at Westfield State University.
I continue to learn in the areas of shamanism, somatics, food as medicine, creating medicinals from the land, as well as exploring timeless Universal healing practices and principles.
I wrote the book, Trusting Your Body: The Embodied Journey of Claiming Sacred Responsibility for Your Health & Well-Being and write the weekly blog Medicine4ThePeople.
Go to https://rememberingwhatmattersmost.com for more information.
We meet live on Zoom on the 4th Thursday of each month, from January to June from 6:30-8 pm EST. Can't make it? Recordings will be available.
Dates:
January 23, 2025
February 27, 2025
March 27, 2025
April 24, 2025
May 22, 2025
June 26, 2025
Absolutely not. We all need outside health support. The focus of The Healer Within is to help you become more connected to the intelligence and healing capacities that reside within you so that you can make health decisions in alignment with that. No matter what you choose.
This supportive healing community is for those ready to embrace a more life-affirming, healthy, value-driven, connected way of living and relating. It is for those who are open to the possibility that the body is intelligent, symptoms and difficulties in Life are messengers, everything is connected and our lives have meaning.
This community is based online. In order to join you will create a free Thinkific account and then login to access our calls and any of the content. Once you register for the membership, you will have instant access.
To join us, you will need internet access and audio capabilities.
Please contact Thinkific support at https://support.thinkific.com/ for technical questions and Susan directly for content questions. Susan's email address is [email protected]
All recordings will be available to you at any time for the duration of your membership.
But you'd like support around how to better care for yourself?
Visit www.rememberingwhatmattersmost.com for audio resources, written materials, workshops and more.